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Read the following passage and decide which answer (A, B, C, or D) best fits each gap. Write your answer in corresponding numbered boxes.
As time (1) _____, the power of newspapers seems to be on the increase. This is odd because in the relatively (2) _____ past people were predicting that the influence of the written word would diminish in direct proportion to the rate of increase of the spoken word and moving image through TV and video. The Internet, cable and satellite television, Tele text and multi-media computers in (3) ______ other home should surely have (4) ______ for newspapers by now, particularly alongside a perceptible resurgence in the audiences for news-carrying radio stations. How have these organs survived, let alone flourished, particularly on a Sunday? Why do people who have seen a football or tennis (5) _____ live or on the small screen rush the next day to read a potted version of it in four or five columns which surely cannot mean more to the reader than that self-same viewer of the previous afternoon or evening? Why would anyone who has seen a film and formed a (6) _____ impression of it the following day read a review of the aforesaid film in a newspaper? To see if he/ she is right? Isn't that what friends are for? Don't we have colleagues for just that purpose - to see if our ideas on any (7) _____ song, film or programme tally with others? What is this product that (8) _____ of not much more than outrageous headlines, wayward comment, subjective editorials and hyperbolic sports pages still doing in our lives? It seems for the time (9) ______ to be leading a charmed life. When it finally goes, though, many may come to mourn its (10) _____.
1. A flies B. passes C. goes D. drags
2. A. latest B. distant C. immediate D. recent
3. A. all B. any C. every D. one
4. A. done B. gone C. stood D. set
5. A. player B. set C. match D. meeting
6. A. direct B. coloured C. bright D. vivid
7. A. given B. taken C. subjected D. written
8. A. comprises B. contains C. consists D. informs
9 A. out B. being C. given D. present
10. A. perishing B. dying C. falling D. passing
As time (1) _____, the power of newspapers seems to be on the increase. This is odd because in the relatively (2) _____ past people were predicting that the influence of the written word would diminish in direct proportion to the rate of increase of the spoken word and moving image through TV and video. The Internet, cable and satellite television, Tele text and multi-media computers in (3) ______ other home should surely have (4) ______ for newspapers by now, particularly alongside a perceptible resurgence in the audiences for news-carrying radio stations. How have these organs survived, let alone flourished, particularly on a Sunday? Why do people who have seen a football or tennis (5) _____ live or on the small screen rush the next day to read a potted version of it in four or five columns which surely cannot mean more to the reader than that self-same viewer of the previous afternoon or evening? Why would anyone who has seen a film and formed a (6) _____ impression of it the following day read a review of the aforesaid film in a newspaper? To see if he/ she is right? Isn't that what friends are for? Don't we have colleagues for just that purpose - to see if our ideas on any (7) _____ song, film or programme tally with others? What is this product that (8) _____ of not much more than outrageous headlines, wayward comment, subjective editorials and hyperbolic sports pages still doing in our lives? It seems for the time (9) ______ to be leading a charmed life. When it finally goes, though, many may come to mourn its (10) _____.
1. A flies B. passes C. goes D. drags
2. A. latest B. distant C. immediate D. recent
3. A. all B. any C. every D. one
4. A. done B. gone C. stood D. set
5. A. player B. set C. match D. meeting
6. A. direct B. coloured C. bright D. vivid
7. A. given B. taken C. subjected D. written
8. A. comprises B. contains C. consists D. informs
9 A. out B. being C. given D. present
10. A. perishing B. dying C. falling D. passing
