Who won the World Cup 1994 football game? What happened at the United Nations? How did the critics like the new play? (1)______an event takes place, newspapers are on the streets (2)______the details. Wherever anything happens in the world, reports are on the spot to (3)______the news.

   Newspapers have one basic (4)______, to get the news as quickly as possible from its source, from those who make it to those who want to (5)______it.Radio, telegraph, television, (6)______inventions brought　competition for newspapers.So did the development of magazines other means of communication. (7)______, this competition merely spurred the newspapers on.They quickly made use of　the newer faster means of communication to improve the (8)______thus the efficiency of their own operations.Today more newspapers are (9)______read than ever before.Competition also led newspapers to branch out into many other fields.Besides keeping readers (10)______of the latest news,　today's newspapers (11)______influence readers about politics other important serious matters. Newspapers influence readers' economic choices (12)______advertising. Most newspapers depend　on advertising for their very (13)______Newspapers are sold at a price that (14)______even a small fraction of the cost of production. The main (15)______of income for most newspapers is commercial advertising.The (16)______in selling advertising depends on a newspaper's value to advertisers. This (17)______in terms of circulation. How many people read the newspaper? Circulation depends (18)______on the work of the circulation department on the services or entertainment (19)______ in a newspaper's pages.But for the　most part, circulation depends on a newspaper's value to readers as a source of information (20)______the community, city, country, state, nation, world—even outer space.(10分)

1.A.Just whenB.WhileC.Soon afterD.Before