Passage Four Almost every family buys at least one copy of a newspaper every day, Some people subscribe to as many as two or three different newspapers. But why do people read newspapers Five hundred years ago, news of important happenings--battles lost and won, kings or rulers overthrown or killed--took months and even years to travel from one country to another. The news passed by word of mouth and was never accurate. Today we can read in our newspapers of important e vents that occur in faraway countries on the same day they happen. Apart from supplying news from all over the world, newspapers give us a lot of other useful in formation. There are weather reports, radio, television and film guides, book reviews, stories, and, of course, advertisements. There are all sorts of advertisements. The bigger ones are put in by large companies to bring attention to their products. They pay the newspapers thousands of dollars for their advertising space, but it is worth the money
A. sent by telegraph
B. sent by letter
C. passed from one person to another
D. sent by telephone
No one can deny that pesticides have improved the ability of farmers to bring their crops to market. (1) pesticides, farmers no longer have to worry that they will lose an entire crop (2) an army of cut Worms or fruit flies. (3) , Americans can rely on a large and varied food supply.
However, we Americans need to become more (4) about the effects those pesticides on our food. More (5) , we need to think about what new (6) is necessary to protect ourselves from a (7) too rich in Pesticide residue. If we don’t demand greater (8) on pesticide use, we may be surprised, dismayed, and (9) horrified by the consequence of its use.
On the most obvious level, farm workers who continue to use the pesticides (10) their present rate will (11) serious diseases. It’s no (12) that farmers (13) to herbicides have a six times greater risk of getting cancer. (14) , children
A. In sum
B. In short
C. In total
D. As a result
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