The first newspaper was written by hand and put up on walls in public places. The earliest daily newspaper was started in Rome in 59 BC. In the 700s the world’s first printed newspaper was published. Europe didn’t have a regularly printed newspaper until 1609, when one was started in Germany.
The first regularly published newspaper in English was printed in Amsterdam in 1620. In 1621, an English newspaper was started in London and was published once a week. The first daily English newspaper was the daily curtent, which came out in March 1702.
In 1690, Benjamin Harris printed the first American newspaper in Boston. But not long after it was first published, the government stopped the paper. In 1704, John Campbell started the Boston Newspaper, the first newspaper published daily in the American colonies (殖民地). By 1760, the colonies had more than thirty daily newspapers. There are now about 1,800 daily papers in the United States.
Today, as a group, newspapers in English have the largest circulation (发行量) in the world. But the largest circulation for a newspaper is that of the Japanese newspaper asahi shimbun. It sells more than eleven million copies every year.
1. The first regularly printed European newspaper started in ________.| A．Rome in 59 BC | B．Germany in 1609 |
| C．Amsterdam in 1620 | D．England in 1621 |
| A．1620 | B．1621 | C．1590 | D．1702 |
| A．there are 18,000 newspapers in the United States |
| B．one English newspaper has the largest circulation in the world |
| C．the first daily newspaper was printed in Rome in 59 BC |
| D．daily newspapers have the longest history in Europe |
| A．History of newspapers. |
| B．History of daily newspapers. |
| C．The beginning of newspapers. |
| D．On reading newspapers. |
相似题推荐
【推荐1】Sporting activities are important improved forms of hunting behavior. Viewed biologically, the modern footballer is in reality a member of a hunting group. His killing weapon has turned into a harmless football and his hunted animals into a goal-mouth. If his aim is accurate and he scores a goal, he enjoys the hunter’s victory of killing his preys (猎物).
To understand how this transformation has taken place we must look back at our forefathers (先父). They spent over a million years evolving (进化) as cooperative hunters. Their very survival depended on success in the hunting-field. Under this pressure their whole way of life, even their bodies, became greatly changed. They became chasers, runners, jumpers, aimers, throwers and prey-killers. They cooperated as skillful male-group attackers.
Then about ten thousand years ago, after this extremely long period of hunting their food, they became farmers. Their improved intelligence, so significant to their old hunting life, was put to a new use—that of controlling and domesticating (驯化) their prey. The hunt became suddenly out of date. The food was there on the farms, awaiting their needs. The risks and uncertainties of the hunt were no longer necessary for survival.
The skills and thirst for hunting remained, however, and demanded new ways to practice them. Hunting for sport replaced hunting for necessity. This new activity involved all the original hunting orders but the aim of the operation was no longer to avoid starvation. Instead the sportsmen set off to test their skill against preys that were no longer important to their survival. To be sure, the kill may have been eaten but there were other simpler ways of getting a meaty meal.
1. The author uses the example of the football game to tell us _______________.| A．sporting activities are forms of biological developments |
| B．the difference between sports and hunting |
| C．the reason why man used to go in for hunting |
| D．sporting activities have actually evolved from hunting |
| A．sporting activities | B．domesticating wild animals |
| C．growing crops | D．chasing and killing wild animals |
| A．Sporting activities satisfy the desire of modern men to practice hunting skills which the forefathers developed for survival. |
| B．It is farming that brings human into close contact with nature. |
| C．Sporting activities are important to human existence because they excuse humans from risks and uncertainties. |
| D．It is farming that makes hunting completely out of date and unnecessary. |
【推荐2】The dialect (方言) regions of the United arc most clearly marked along the Atlantic coast, where the earlier settlements (定居地) were created. There dialects can be defined: Northern, Midland, and Southern.
To some extent these regions save the traditional speech of southeastern and southern England, where most of the early colonists were born. The first settlers that arrived in Virginia (1607) and Massachusetts (1620) soon learned to adapt old words to new uses, but they were also pleased to borrow names from the local Indian languages for unknown trees, such as hickory and persimmon trees, and for unfamiliar animals, such as raccoons and woodchucks. Later they took words from other foreign settlers — the French and the Dutch.
Before the Declaration of Independence (1776), two-thirds of the immigrants (移民) had come from England, but after that date immigrants from Ireland arrived in large numbers. The Great Hunger of 1845-1852 drove 1.5 million Irish to seek homes in the New World, and the European Revolutions of 1848 drove as many Germans to settle in Pennsylvania and the Midwest. After the close of the American Civil War in 1865, millions of Scandinavians, Slavs, and Italians crossed the ocean and eventually settled mostly in the North Central and Upper Midwest states. In some areas of South Carolina and Georgia, Africans working on rice and cotton plantations developed a language called Gullah, which made use of many structural and vocabulary features of their native languages.
The speech of the Atlantic Seaboard shows far greater differences in pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary than that of any area in the North Central states, the Upper Midwest, the Rocky Mountains, or the Pacific Coast. Today, urbanization, quick transport, and television have decreased some dialectal differences in the United States. On the other hand, immigrant groups have introduced new varieties in which the influence of their native languages is evident, and some immigrant languages are widely spoken.
1. Why did the first settlers borrow local Indian words?| A．To communicate with the locals. |
| B．To enrich their own languages. |
| C．To deepen their friendships with Indians. |
| D．To learn about Indians’ traditional culture. |
| A．It borrowed plenty of words from English. |
| B．It was based on Africans’ native languages. |
| C．It had rich words to describe farming practices. |
| D．It was mainly spoken in the North Central stales. |
| A．Convenient transportation. |
| B．Widespread use of the Internet. |
| C．The growth of nationwide population. |
| D．The rise of people’s educational level. |
| A．The origin of dialects in the US. |
| B．America’s immigration history. |
| C．The attractiveness of the United States. |
| D．The importance of cross-cultural communication. |
【推荐3】For many in the UK, if the New Year means anything, it means starting with a clean beginning and turning over a new leaf. And to do this, many of us make New Year's resolutions—a list of ways that we intend to improve ourselves in the year ahead. We reflect on our past transgressions and decide not to do them again. Stopping smoking is ever popular, as is a vow to take up more exercise or spend more time with family. But where does the idea of a New Year's resolution come from?
The answer might lie 4,000 years ago in ancient Babylonia (巴比伦王国), according to History.com. The Babylonians are believed to be the first to hold recorded celebrations for the New Year. The 12-day-long celebration, allowed them not only to reaffirm (重申) their loyalty to the king, but also to promise to the gods to pay their debts and return borrowed objects. For their good behavior, they believed the gods would cast favor upon them for the year to come.
The Romans too had similar traditions. New Year's Day was a time when senators would swear they had maintained the laws and city leaders and soldiers would take an oath (宣誓) of loyalty to the emperor. Incidentally, the month of January, is named after the Roman god Janus. He is the god of beginnings, transitions and time, among other things and is described as having two faces—one looking to the past and the other facing forward to the future.
The Romans may be long gone, but their legacy lives on. Come the turn of the year and we look at self-improvement, review our past mistakes, confess our wrongdoings and try to sharpen up in general. Ultimately, much like the Babylonians and Romans, we seek to reaffirm the best parts of ourselves, while leaving the worthless behind.
Whether you're looking at a quick behavioral change, or huge personality improving, you're taking part in an old tradition. I wish you all the best sticking to your resolutions. Happy New Year!
1. The underlined word ''transgressions'' in the first paragraph means '' ''.| A．childhood | B．wrongdoings |
| C．careers | D．achievements |
| A．They strengthened their loyalty to the king again. |
| B．They borrowed objects from gods. |
| C．They took up more exercise. |
| D．They kept the laws and stayed with families. |
| A．Janus is the god of beginnings. | B．Janus is the god of transitions and time. |
| C．Janus has two faces. | D．Janus looks to the past. |
| A．the way to celebrate New Year | B．the origin of the New Year's resolution |
| C．the old story of Romans | D．the approach to changing people's behavior |
【推荐1】Photos that you might have found down the back of your sofa are now big business!
In 2005, the American artist Richard Prince’s photograph of a photograph, Untitled (Cowboy), was sold for $ 1,248,000.
Prince is certainly not the only contemporary artist to have worked with so-called “found photographs” — a loose term given to everything from discarded (丢弃的) prints discovered in a junk shop to old advertisements or amateur photographs from a stranger’s family album. The German artist Joachim Schmid, who believes “basically everything is worth looking at”, has gathered discarded photographs, postcards and newspaper images since 1982. In his on-going project, Archiv, he groups photographs of family life according to themes: people with dogs; teams; new cars; dinner with the family; and so on.
Like Schmid, the editors of several self-published art magazines also champion (捍卫，维护) found photographs. One of them, called simply Found, was born one snowy night in Chicago, when Davy Rothbard returned to his car to find under his wiper (雨刷) an angry note intended for someone else: “Why’s your car HERE at HER place?” The note became the starting point for Rothbard’s addictive publication, which features found photographs sent in by readers, such as poster discovered in our drawer.
The whole found-photograph phenomenon has raised some questions. Perhaps one of the most difficult is; can these images really be considered as art? And if so, whose art? Yet found photographs produced by artists, such as Richard Prince, may raise endless possibilities. What was the cowboy in Orince’s Untitled doing? Was he riding his horse hurriedly to meet someone? Or how did Prince create this photograph? It’s anyone’s guess. In addition, as we imagine the back-story to the people in the found photographs artists, like Schmid, have collated (整理), we also turn toward our own photographic albums. Why is memory so important to us? Why do we all seek to freeze in time the faces of our children, our parents, our lovers, and ourselves? Will they mean anything to anyone after we’ve gone?
In the absence of established facts, the vast collections of found photographs give our minds an opportunity to wander freely. That, above all, is why they are so fascinating.
1. The first paragraph of the passage is used to .| A．remind readers of found photographs |
| B．advise reader to start a new kind of business |
| C．ask readers to find photographs behind sofa |
| D．show readers the value of found photographs |
| A．the readers | B．the editors |
| C．the found photographs | D．the self-published magazines |
| A．memory of the past is very important to people |
| B．found photographs allow people to think freely |
| C．the back-story of found photographs is puzzling |
| D．the real value of found photographs is questionable |
| A．critical | B．doubtful |
| C．optimistic | D．satisfied |
【推荐2】The Power of the Press
In modern countries any efforts to restrict the freedom of the press are rightly condemned. However, this freedom can easily be abused.
The story of a poor family that acquired fame and fortune overnight, dramatically illustrates the power of the press. The family lived in Aberdeen, a small town of 23, 000 inhabitants in South Dakota.
The rise to fame was swift.
| A．Television cameras and newspapers carried the news to everyone in the country. |
| B．Stories about people often attract far more public attention than imagined. |
| C．It is hard not to read news about the miserable things happening in the world. |
| D．They were more than happy to make full use of their names. |
| E．It would never again be possible for them to lead normal lives. |
| F．As the parents had five children, life was an endless struggle against poverty. |
【推荐3】Get up to 19% off the cover price
Plus, get digital access with your paid print subscription
●Up-to-date news that touches your life
From money-saving tips and quick reports on the latest healthcare, to inspiring articles on world events, you'll discover hundreds of ideas for living a richer, more satisfying life.
●Read it anytime, anywhere
Get a l-year-print subscription of Reader's Digest magazine today and you'll also get free digital instantly. With digital access, you can read the latest issue of Reader's Digest anytime, anywhere! Plus, you can quickly access your past issues online, too.
●Continuous renewal service
Your subscription will automatically renew at the end of each term until you cancel. You authorize us to charge you credit/debit card at the discounted rate on the renewal service unless you cancel. You may cancel at anytime by visiting Customer Care and receive a refund on all unmailed issues.
●Other information
The cover price of Reader's Digest is $3.99 per issue and it is currently published 10 times annually. Please check the confirmation page and your mailbox to download detailed instructions.
1. What is the annual fee for subscription?| A．$32. 3. | B．$39. 9. | C．$40. | D．$47. 9. |
| A．Touching and amusing. | B．Inspiring and practical. |
| C．Amazing and entertaining. | D．Educational and theoretical. |
| A．have as many issues as possible every year |
| B．renew your subscription at the original rate |
| C．get back your money for the issues not mailed |
| D．obtain all the past issues online anytime, anywhere |
【推荐1】Have you ever wondered why people drive on a different side of the road? It might seem bizarre that U. K. Drivers stay on the left, but they’re not the only ones. Around 35 percent of the world population do the same, including people in Ireland, Japan, and some Caribbean islands.
Originally, almost everybody traveled on the left side of the road. However their way of transport was quite different from today: Think about four legs instead of four wheels. For Medieval swordsmen on horseback, it made sense to keep to the left to have their right arms closer to their enemies. Getting on or off was also easier from the left side of the horse, and safer done by the side of the road than in the center.
So why did people stop traveling on the left? Things changed in the late 1700s when large wagons (货车) pulled by several pairs of horses were used to transport farm products in France and the United States. The wagon driver sat behind the left horse, with his right arm free to use his whip to keep the horses moving. Since he was sitting on the left position, he wanted other wagons to pass on his left, so he kept to the right side of the road.
The British Government refused to give up their left-hand driving ways, and in 1773 introduced the General Highways Act, which encouraged driving on the left. This was later made law thanks to The Highway Act of 1835.
When Henry Ford showed his Model T in 1908, the driver’s seat was on the left, meaning that cars would have to drive on the right hand side of the road to allow front and back passengers to exit the car onto the roadside. However, British drivers remain on the left, and this is highly unlikely to change.
1. What does the underlined word “bizarre” in Paragraph 1 mean?| A．Funny. | B．Strange. |
| C．Wrong. | D．Difficult |
| A．It was safer to keep on the left |
| B．It was easier to carry goods. |
| C．It was easier for them to fight. |
| D．It was necessary to control the horse. |
| A．Their sitting position. |
| B．The road conditions. |
| C．The number of horses. |
| D．The products in the wagons. |
| A．UK Drivers Still Go On The Left |
| B．Why People Like Sitting On The Left Side |
| C．The History Of Transportation Means |
| D．The Reasons For Different Driving Sides |
【推荐2】About the author: Roy Tomizawa celebrated his first birthday on the opening day of the 1964 Olympics. Roy has been a fan of the Olympics. A year after Tokyo was awarded the 2020 Olympics, Roy went searching for an English-language book that recorded the 1964 Olympics — but he couldn’t find one. So Roy decided to combine his love of the Olympics and his skills for writing and record the event that symbolized the determination of the Japanese to survive and thrive after World War II.
About the book: Japan was a physical and psychological wasteland at the end of World War II. With over 3 million dead, 39 percent of city populations homeless, 40 percent of all urban areas flattened, 80 percent of all ships destroyed, and 33 percent of all industrial machine tools not usable, the country was destroyed.
And yet, just 19 years later, Japan stood proud-modern, peace-loving, and open-welcoming the world as the host of the 1964 Olympic, the largest global event of its time.
In 1964 — The Greatest Year in the History of Japan, Roy Tomizawa records how Japan rose from the destruction to create the greatest Asian economic miracle of the 20th century. He shares stories from the 1964 Olympics that created a level of adjustment and national pride never before seen in Japan, leaving an unforgettable mark in the heart of the Japanese for generations.
1. What is known about Roy Tomizawa?| A．He was born in 1964. | B．He couldn’t write in English. |
| C．He recorded the 1964 Olympics. | D．He failed to find a symbol for Japan. |
| A．By giving examples. | B．By classifying facts. |
| C．By providing statistics. | D．By making comparisons. |
| A．The great influence of WW II on Japan. |
| B．Roy Tomizawa’s personal development. |
| C．The greatest Asian economic miracles of the 20th century. |
| D．The positive changes the 1964 Olympics brought to Japan. |
【推荐3】Fancy, feathered, and fascinating, these birds surprised portrait photographer Alex ten Napel with their beauty and charisma.
In the Netherlands, Alex ten Napel makes miniature (微型的)runways in barns and backyards to capture the essence of chickens such as this Polish rooster. “I consider them walking pieces of art, “ he says.
A chicken “is not just an animal that gives us eggs, ” says Alex ten Napel, who’s been wandering his home country of the Netherlands in search of farm fowl since 2014. Taking inspiration from Melchior d’ Hondecoeter, a 17th-century Dutch artist known for his work with birds, ten Napel uses lighting, backdrops， and an elevated， catwalk-like stage to bring chickens out of the coop (笼子)and into an entirely new context.
“What I hope you see in the photos is that chickens can be proud beings or funny beings, “ he says. ”They can be like gymnasts or ballerinas. Not what most people think of when you talk about chickens. “ While each animal has different characteristics, ten Napel has noticed the emergence of some patterns throughout his travels. Roosters, or male chickens, tend to be large, visually striking, and imposing (仪表堂堂的)，he says. But it’s the females ten Napel finds himself drawn toward. “I have a heart for the hens. They’re so vulnerable, ” he says. “They move me in a way that I want to protect them. “
Ten Napel first came face-to-face with a chicken while he was camping in the Pyrenees Mountains about 10 years ago. He felt an immediate connection to the species, which then became his main photographic muse.
A specialist in portrait photography, ten Napel paid attention to children and older adults-for 25 years. The chickens, he says, have reignited his passion for this type of photography. “I can’t direct them. I have to be patient and feel how they will show themselves, ”he adds. “Everything they give you is a gift. “
1. What can we infer from the passage?| A．Alex took a photo for a chicken while he was camping. |
| B．When taking photos, Alex usually guides the chickens to show themselves. |
| C．When referring to animal characteristics, Alex prefers male chickens to female. |
| D．Alex makes miniature runways as catwalk-like stages to take photos for chickens. |
| A．Caring. | B．Curious. |
| C．Proud. | D．Surprised. |
| A．People. | B．Natural scenery. |
| C．Animals. | D．Historical sites. |
| A．Chickens-Proud and Funny Beings |
| B．Chickens-Going From Cage to Catwalk |
| C．Chickens-Visually Striking Farm Fowl |
| D．Chickens-Walking Photographic Master |
