第51~65题，每题1分，共15分 1、 The Great Newspaper WarUp until about 100 years ago,newspapers in the United States appealed only to the most serious readers. Theyused no illustrations and the articles were__________(51)politics or business.Two men_________(52) that–Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World and William Randolph Hearst of the NewYork Morning Journal. Pulitzer_________(53) the New York World in 1883. hechanged it form a traditional newspaper into a very_________(54) one overnight(一夜之间). He__________(55) lots of illustrations and cartoons. And hetold his reporters to write articles on__________(56) crime or scandal theycould find. And they did. One of them even pretended she was crazy and then shewas__________(57) to a mental hospital. She them wrote a series of articlesabout the poor_________(58)of patients in those hospitals.In 1895, Hearst___________(59)to New York from California. He wanted the New York Morning Journal to be moresensational(轰动的) and moreexciting_____________(60) the New York World. He also wanted it to be cheaper,so he_______________(61) the price by a penny. Hearst attracted attentionbecause his headlines were bigger than_________(62). He often said, “Big printmakes big news.”Pulitzer and Hearst didanything they_____________(63) to sell newspapers. For example, Hearst sentFrederic Remington, the famous illustrator(插图画家),to_____________(64) pictures of the Spanish-American War. When he got there, hetold Hearst that no fighting was___________(65). Hearst answered, “You furnish (提供) the pictures. I’ll furnish the war.”
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