America’s most popular newspaper website today announced that the era of free online journalism is drawing to a close. The New Y

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问题     America’s most popular newspaper website today announced that the era of free online journalism is drawing to a close. The New York Times has become the biggest publisher yet to【C1】______ plans for a pay wall around its digital offering, 【C2】______ the accepted practice that internet users will not pay for news.
    Struggling 【C3】______an evaporation of advertising and a downward drift in street corner sales, The New York Times【C4】______to introduce a "metered" model at the beginning of 2011. Readers will be required to pay when they have【C5】______a set number of its online articles per month.
    The decision puts the 159-year-old newspaper【C6】______the charging side of an increasingly wide chasm in the media industry. But others, including The Guardian, have said they will not【C7】______internet readers, and certain papers, 【C8】______London’s Evening Standard, have gone further in abandoning readership revenue by making their print editions【C9】______.
    The New York Times’ publisher, Arthur Sulzberger, 【C10】______that the move is a gamble: "This is a【C11】______, to a certain degree, in where we think the web is going."
    Boasting a print【C12】______ of 995,000 on weekdays and 1.4 million on Sundays, The New York Times is the third bestselling American newspaper, 【C13】______The Wall Street Journal and USA Today. 【C14】______most U.S. papers focus on a single city, The New York Times is among the few that can【C15】______ national scope—as well as 16 bureaus in the New York area, it has 11 offices around the U.S. and 【C16】______26 bureaus elsewhere in the world.
    But【C17】______many in the publishing industry, the paper is in the grip of a【C18】______ financial crisis. Its parent company, the New York Times Company, has 15 papers, but 【C19】______a loss of $70 million in the nine months to September and recently accepted a $250 million【C20】______from a Mexican billionaire, Carlos Slim, to strengthen its balance sheet.
【C20】

选项 A、asset
B、bill
C、account
D、loan

答案D

解析 考查名词辨析。该句大意为“最近纽约时报公司从一位墨西哥亿万富翁那里接受了一笔达两亿五千万的______”,前文提到了该公司财政亏损,由此可知他们是借了货款,loan“贷款”符合文意,故选D.loan。asset意为“资产,财产”;bill意为“账单”;account意为“账户”,均不符合题意,故排除。
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