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2009年高考英语二轮复习专项限时训练·阅读理解（三十四） A The history of newspapers is an often-dramatic chapter of the human experience going back some six centuries.In Re高考资源网naissance Europe handwritten newsletters circulated(发行) privately among merchants,passing along information about everything from wars and economic conditions to social customs and “human interest” features.The first printed newspaper appeared in Germany in the late 1400s in the form of news pamphlets(小册子) or broadsides. In the English-speaking world,the earliest predecessors(前身) of the newspaper were corantos,small news pamphlets produced only