Reading newspapers has become an important part of everyday life. Some people read newspapers as the first thing to do in the morning, others read newspapers as soon as they have free time during the day so that they can learn what is happening in the world.
Sometimes, we do not have enough time to read all the news carefully, so we just take a quick look at the front page. At other times, we may be in such a hurry that we only have a few minutes to look at the headlines of the passages.
Newspapers can be found everywhere in the world. We can get many different kinds of newspapers in big cities, but in some mountain villages we can see few newspapers.
Some newspapers are published once a week, but most of the papers are published once a day with many pages, some even published twice a day! You know different people enjoy reading different newspapers. Some like world news, and others prefer short stories. They just choose what they are interested in.
Today newspapers in English have the largest number of readers in the world. The English language is so popular that many Chinese students are reading English newspapers such as China Daily or 21st Century. They bring us more and more information with the internet.
46. People read newspapers in order to _____
A. learn the latest news B. read short stories
C. do something in the morning D. meet their own different needs for reading
47. From the passage we can see that when people get newspapers,_____
A. they read from one article to another
B. they have no time to read them
C. they just read the headlines
D. not everyone reads all the articles in the papers
48. Newspapers are very important to people because _____
A. they have a lot of interesting things in them.
B. newspapers can be found everywhere in the world.
C. people can learn what is happening in the world from papers.
D. many people in the world know English.
49. Newspapers _____ are the most popular in the world.
A. in Chinese B. in English C. in other languages D. with many pages
50. According to the passage, besides newspapers, people also get information from _____
A. books B. magazines C. the internet D. advertisements.