Who won the World Cup 1994 football game？ What happened at the United Nations？ How did the

critics like the new play？【C1】______an event takes place; newspapers are on the streets【C2】______the details. Wherever anything happens in the world, reports are on the spot to【C3】______the news.

Newspapers have one basic【C4】______, to get the news as quickly as possible from its source, from those who make it to those who want to【C5】______it. Radio, telegraph, television, and【C6】______inventions brought competition for newspapers. So did the development of magazines and other means of communication.【C7】______, this competition merely spurred the newspapers on. They quickly made use of the newer and faster means of communication to improve the【C8】______and thus the efficiency of their own operations. Today more newspapers are【C9】______and read than ever before. Competition also led newspapers to branch out to many other fields. Besides keeping readers【C10】______of the latest news, today's newspapers【C11】______and influence readers about politics and other important and serious matters. Newspapers influence readers' economic choices【C12】______advertising. Most newspapers depend on advertising for their very【C13】______. Newspapers are sold at a price that【C14】______even a small fraction of the cost of production. The main【C15】______of income for most newspapers is commercial advertising. The【C16】______in selling advertising depends on a newspaper's value to advertisers. This【C17】______in terms of circulation. How many people read the newspaper？ Circulation depends【C18】______on the work of the circulation department and on the services or entertainment【C19】______in a newspaper's pages. But for the most part, circulation depends on a newspaper's value to readers as a source of information【C20】______the community, city, country, state, nation, and world—and even outer space.

【C1】

A．Just when

B．While

C．Soon after

D．Before