A good modern newspaper is an extraordinary piece of reading. It is unusual for what it contains: the news from local crime to international politics, from sports to business to fashion to science, and the comments and special features(特写)as well, from editorial page to feature articles, from interviews to criticism of books, art, theatre, and music. A newspaper is even more unusual for the way one reads it never completely, never straight through, but always by jumping from here to there, in and out, glancing at one piece, reading another article all the way through, reading just a few paragraphs of the next.
A good modern newspaper offers a variety to attract many different readers, but far more than any one reader is interested in. What brings this variety together in one place is its topicality, that is, its immediate relation to what is happening in your world and your locality now. But this immediacy and the speed of production that goes with it also mean that much of what appears in a newspaper has no more than temporary value. For all these reasons, no two people really read the same paper: what each person does is to put together, out of the pages of that day’s paper, his own selection and order, his own newspaper. For all these reasons, reading newspapers efficiently which means getting what you want from them without missing things you need but without wasting time, demands skill and self-awareness(意识) as you change and apply the techniques of reading.
小题1:What does the underlined word in the second paragraph mean ?A．wide coverageB．speed in reporting newsC．various style　　D．popularity among readers小题2:According to the passage, the reason why no two people really read the same newspaper is that ___________.A．people are interested in the same kind of newsB．different people prefer different newspapersC．people scan for the news they are interested inD．people have different views about what a good newspaper is小题3:A good newspaper offers “a variety” to readers because ___________.A．readers like to read different newspapersB．it has to cover things that happen in a certain localityC．readers are difficult to pleaseD．it tries to serve different readers小题4:The best title for this passage would be ___________.A．The Characteristics of a Good NewspaperB．The Importance of a good NewspaperC．Good Newspapers and Bad NewspapersD．Some Advice on How to Read a Newspaper