“Evening Paper! The hoarse(沙哑)voice of the newsvendor echoes(回响)across the busy

“Evening Paper!”

  The hoarse(沙哑)voice of the newsvendor echoes(回响)across the busy street．It is only just afternoon，yet “evening” papers are on sale! It is justone example of the curious world of newspapers．Morningpapers “go to bed” at night；eveningpapers go to bed during the early day! “Going to bed” is the way the world ofnewspapers talks when it means that a paper is being printed．

  “Evening Paper!”

  Have you ever thought ofall the men and machines involved in producing those sheets of newsprint? Fromall parts of the world news comes in by telephone，telegraph，radio，and every wayman has of communicating．Much of this news iscollected by news agencies，vast hires of busyworkers who receive the news items and send them out andお other newscomes in to the newspaper office from reporters．What a hopeless tangleof information a newspaper office seems! And yet，out of all this jumbleand rush，and bustle，ournewspapers appear with unfailing regularity．No matter what happensthe paper must be on sale on time.

1.Anewsvendor is a person who .

   A．sells newspapers in thestreet

   B．produces newspapers

   C．collect news fornewspapers

   D．writes articles fornewspapers    ．

2.From thepassage we know“Evening papers”are printed  ．

A．in the evening  

B．in theafternoon  

  C．during the earlyday  

 D．at the time when peoplego to bed  

3.   collect news from all parts of the worldfor the newspapers.

    A. Only reporters    B．Readers

    C Newsvendors   D．News agencies

4. Which ofthe following is not referred to in the passage?

    A．A greatnumber of people are engaged in producing papers．

    B．The newspaperoffice can get the news from time to time．

    C. How to keep the cost ofa newspaper down．

    D．Whateverhappens the paper would be on sale at regular time．

5.Thispassage implies that  .

    A．speed isimportant

    B．people likereading evening papers more than morning papers

C．the writerhates to be interrupted by the hoarse voice

D．the writerhimself is an editor of a paper

试题答案

答案：1A2C3D4C5A