1 . Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box.Each word can only be used once.Note that there is one word more than you need.

A.flexibility     B.shift        C.hungry       D.improvement       E.dominated F.released        G.secure     H.adapting     I.familiar                    J.burying            K.distinguish

The New York Times has changed a lot in the past 10 years, embracing digital subscriptions and growing into online video and specialty areas like cooking. It has not been enough to prepare the company for the future, according to the paper’s own 2020 report     1     on Tuesday.

“While the past two years have been a time of significant innovation, the pace must speed up,” the authors wrote in the opening of the report. “Too often, digital progress has been accomplished through workarounds; now we must tear apart the barriers. We must     2     between mission and tradition: what we do because it’s essential to our values and what we do because we’ve always done it.”

The report indicates how far the paper has come in     3     itself to the digital age while also pointing out what needs to be done.

The areas that need     4     are focused on the newsroom, particularly in the tools and internal structures that journalists must deal with to produce their work.

Many of the report’s recommendations are     5     to anyone who closely follows the Times or newspapers in general: A(n)     6     away from print’s, outsized importance on the newsroom’s operations, better ways to include multimedia in stories and a renewed effort at creating a more diverse newsroom with a variety of skills.

The paper has an ongoing goal that started in 2016 of doubling digital revenue to $800 million by 2020.“To     7     our future, we need to expand considerably our number of subscribers by 2020.”

The report also calls into question the formats on which the Times — and most other newspapers — rely, namely a mix of news stories and features that are text heavy. “Too much of our daily report remains     8     by long texts.” the report states.

The report stresses that the Times should do more to educate readers. “Our readers are     9     for advice from The Times. Too often, we don’t offer it, or offer it only in print-centric forms.” the report states. Perhaps the most interesting part of the report comes at the very bottom in the form of comments from the paper’s own journalists. Reporters said they would like to see     10     in choice of how to tell certain stories, and some disagreement about what kind of tone the Times should embrace going forward.

2 . Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

It is usually a common practice that journal websites offer readers their free online editions of articles and other information. However, America’s most popular newspaper website announced that the era of free online journalism is drawing to a     1    . The New York Times has become the biggest publisher yet to set out plans for a pay wall around its digital offering,     2     the accepted practice that Internet users will not pay for news.

Struggling with a decline of advertising and a downward     3    in street corner sales, The New York Times intends to introduce a “metered” model at the beginning of 2011. Readers will be required to pay when they have exceeded (超过) a set number of its online articles per month.

The decision puts the 159-year-old newspaper on the     4     side of an increasingly wide chasm (鸿沟) in the media industry. But others, including the Guardian, have said they will not charge Internet readers.

The New York Time’s publisher, Arthur Sulzberger,     5     that the idea was a gamble.     6     a print circulation of 995,000 on weekdays and 1.4 million on Sundays, The New York Times is the third bestselling American newspaper, behind the Wall Street Journal and USA Today. While most US papers focus on a single city, The New York Times is among the few that can     7    national scope—as well as 16 bureaus (办事处) in the New York area, it has 11 offices around the US and     8     26 bureaus elsewhere in the world.

But like many in the publishing industry,the paper is in the grip of a serious financial crisis. Its parent company,the New York Times Company, has 15 papers, but     9     a loss of $70 million in the nine months to September and recently accepted a $250 million loan from a Mexican billionaire, Carlos Slim, to     10     its balance sheet.