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For over a century , student journalists at The Daily Tar Heel ( DTH ) have documented their college life and raised     1    ( variety ) questions on free expression , tuition , and big-time athletics... The independent student newspaper celebrated its 125th anniversary this year . To mark it , student     2    ( report ) asked the question : What’s the future of the DTH ?

Student newspapers are faced    3     a dark reality. Falling advertising income , increasing digital demands and the lack of subscription fees as they are free     4    ( read ) mean that such newspapers are finding them much     5    ( hard ) to survive . Most college papers have reduced their print editions . And while the DTH    6    ( use ) to produce around 22,000 newspapers , it only makes around 10,000 now .

Increasingly, student journalists have turned their focus to their digital platforms    7    they can tell stories with social media. And though     8    can be challenging for them to move away from that print tradition, they manage to adapt very well. So what should student newspapers    9    (trap) in this situation do? Perhaps the ideal answer would be for universities to    10    (financial) support student journalism. In the meantime,college newspapers are figuring out their financial models as they go along.

2 . “It’s like tasering an elderly person who’s already on a pacemaker,” says a British newspaper boss of the newsprint market, where prices have risen by over 50% in a matter of months.

When times were good, before ads went online, newspapers had a supportive partnership with paper mills. As ads went away and circulations fell, “paper mills had the worst of it for years as newspapers reduced pages, went wholly digital or shut forever.”

The papers were able to cut down the cost of newsprint from firms fighting for business as demand decreased. Price-taking paper mills suffered in silence, taking out newsprint capacity and adjusting machines to make packaging for e-commerce. The pandemic, with people working from home, meant even fewer newspaper sales, which depressed demand for newsprint again and increased the pain for paper suppliers. In the past 24 months European mills have responded by shutting almost a fifth of their newsprint capacity, says a buyer for a large British newspaper group.

Then reopening of economies and growing demand for newsprint, combined with much reduced capacity and coupled with up-going energy prices, has resulted in a price shock. Particularly controversial are additional energy charges that some paper suppliers are seeking to pass on.

Newspaper firms consider this amounts as breaking agreements. European newspapers will have to pay newsprint prices that are 50—70% higher in the first quarter of 2022 compared with the year before. As for their counterparts in Asia and Oceania, they are facing prices around 25% to 45% above their usual level. North American prices went up earlier, and more gradually; agreements are fixed monthly rather than half-yearly. But there, too, newsprint prices are 20—30% higher in 2021 than in 2020.

Germany’s print and media industry association has warned that mills are going to force newspapers to quit paper editions, hurting each other in the process. But more digital adrenaline is one possible response of newspapers to the paper mills’ tasers.

1. What can be learned from the first three paragraph?

A．Newspapers have raised their prices by over 50% .

B．Newspapers and paper mills were good friends all the time.

C．Newspapers and paper mills affect each other.

D．Newspapers increased their sales and the pain of paper mills.

2. The paper mills and the newspapers don’t agree with each other on the prices for ________ ?

A．Reopening of economies.	B．Growing demand for newsprint.
C．Much reduced capacity.	D．Additional energy consumption.

3. Which of the following area has the highest increase in newsprint prices?

A．Europe.

B．Asia.

C．Oceania.

D．North American.

4. Which column does this passage belong to?

A．Health.

B．Science.

C．Business.

D．Environment.