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todays newspapers 1 and influence readers about politics and other important and serious matters. Newspapers influence readers economic choices 2 advertising. Most newspapers depend on advertising for their very 3 .Newspapers are sold at a price that 4 even a small fraction of the cost of production. The main 5 of income for most newspapers is commercial advertising. The 6 in selling advertising depends on a newspapers value to advertisers. This 7 in terms of circulation. How many people read the newspaper? Circulation depends 8 on the work of the circulation department and on the services or entertainment 9 in a newspapers pages. But for the most part, circulation depends on a newspapers value to readers as a source of information 10 the community, city, country, state, nation, and world—and even outer space. For many people today, reading is no longer relaxation. To keep up their work they must read letters, reports, trade publications, interoffice communications, not to mention newspapers and magazines: a never-ending flood of words. In 11 a job or advancing in one, the ability to read and comprehend 12 can mean the difference between success and failure. Yet the unfortunate fact is that most of us are 13 readers. Most of us develop poor reading 14 at an early age, and never get over them. The main deficiency 15 in the actual stuff of language itself-words. Taken individually, words have 16 meaning until they are strung together into phrased, sentences and paragraphs. 17 , however, the untrained reader does not read groups of words. He laboriously reads one word at a time, often regressing to 18 words or passages. Regression, the tendency to look back over 19 you have just read, is a common bad habit in reading. Another habit which 20 down the speed of reading is vocalization—sounding each word either orally or mentally 1.A.improvement B.victory C.failure D.achievement2.A.a B.the C.some D.certain3.A.in B.on C.of D.to4.A.Out of B.Of C.To D.I