《在职研究生英语模拟试题3附答案.doc

2015年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试 管理类专业硕士学位联考（英语二） 模拟试题二 Section I Use of English Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C, or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points) ? America’s most popular newspaper website today announced that the era of free online journalism is drawing to a close. The New York Times has become the biggest publisher yet to 1 plans for a paywall around its digital offering, 2 the accepted practice that Internet users will not pay for news. Struggling 3 an evaporation of advertising and a downward drift in street corner sales, The New York Times 4 to introduce a "metered" model at the beginning of 2011. Readers will be required to pay when they have 5 a set number of its online articles per month. The decision puts the 58-year-old newspaper 6 the charging side of an increasingly wide chasm（鸿沟）in the media industry. But others, including the Guarding, have said they will not internet readers, and certain papers, 8 London's Evening Standard, have gone further in abandoning readership revenue by making their print editions 9 . The New York Times's publisher, Arthur Sulzberger, 10 that the move is a gamble: “This is a 11 , to a certain degree, in where we think the web is going.” Boasting a print 12 of 995,000 on weekdays and 1.4 million on Sunday, The New York Times is the third bestselling American newspaper, 13 the Wallstreet Journal and USA Today. 14 most US papers focus on a single city, The New York Times is among the few that can 15 national scope—as well as 16 bureaus in the New York area, it has 11 offices around the US and 16 26 bureaus elsewhere in the world. But 17 many in the publishing industry, the paper is in the grip of a 18 financial crisis. Its parent company, the New York Times Company, has 15 papers, but 19 a loss of $70 million in the nine months to September and recently accepted a $250 m