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广东省2013年高考英语二轮强化训练9 阅读理解 请认真阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A Readers Digest was started by DeWitt Wallace, while recovering from wounds received in World War I. Wallace had the idea to gather a sampling of favorite articles on many subjects from various monthly magazines, sometimes shortening and rewriting them, and to combine them into one magazine. The Wallaces initially hoped the magazine could provide $5,000 of net income. By 1929, the magazine had 290,000 subscribers and had a gross income of $900,000 a year. The first international edition was published in the United Kingdom in 1938 and was sold at 2 shillings. By the 40th anniversary of Readers Digest, there were 40 international editions, in 13 languages and Braille, and it was the largest-circulating magazine in Canada, Mexico, Spain, Sweden, Peru and other countries, with a total international circulation of 23 million. Although Readers Digest was founded in the U.S., its international editions have made it the best-selling monthly magazine in the world. The magazines worldwide circulation including all editions has reached 17 million copies and 70 million readers. Readers Digest is currently published in 52 editions and 35 languages and is available in over 100 countries, including Slovenia, Croatia, Romania, and the Peoples Republic of China in 2008. Its international editions account for about 50% of the magazines trade volume. In each market, local editors commission or purchase articles for their own market and share content with US and other editions. The selected articles are then translated by local translators and the translations edited by the local editors to make them match the well-educated informal style of the American edition. Over the 87 years, the company has published editions in various languages in different countries, or for different regions. Usually these editions started out as translations of the US version of the magazine, but over time many non-US editions beca