TASK 13. Choose the right answer.

1. I don't think this newspaper cartoon is very funny, but I like the _____ under it.

a) caption b) message c) text

2. When you go out, will you get me _____ of "Newsweek".

a) a copy b) an edition c) a paper

3. A _____ from the local newspaper asked for details of the accident.

a) broadcaster b) reporter c) newsagent

4. I read a newspaper every day to keep _____ with current affairs.

a) contemporary b) present-day c) up-to-date

5. There is a very interesting _____ about cancer in the paper.

a) news b) documentary c) article

6. A newspaper _____ normally makes the final decision about the paper's contents.

a) editor b) reporter c) publisher

7. Dear Sirs, I am writing in response to your _____ for a sales clerk in yesterday's "Business Man".

a) advertisement b) announcement c) commercial

8. Our newspaper increased its _____ by eighty thousand copies.

a) amount b) circulation c) numbers

9. Could I have a copy of the latest _____ of the "National Geographic", please?

a) copy b) issue c) example

10. He took out a(n) _____ to "The Times".

a) inscription b) prescription c) subscription

11. Every morning I _____ the crossword puzzle in the paper.

a) make b) do c) solve

12. What was the _____ of the article on Romania. I haven't read it yet.

a) draft b) gist c) plot

13. The information was _____ to the press before it was officially announced.

a) dripped b) dropped c) leaked

14. Many of the new newspapers have a pronounced right-wing _____.

a) balance b) bearing c) bias

15. An advertising _____ should be short, striking and easily remembered.

a) epigram b) motto c) slogan

16. She used her weekly column in the local newspaper as a _____ for her political views.

a) means b) vehicle c) vessel

17. This paper intends to _____ fearlessly all forms of corruption in public life.

a) expose b) uncover c) unveil

18. I've only had time to read the _____ in the morning's paper.

a) headings b) headlines c) columns

19. A newspaper's opinions are given in its _____.

a) editorials b) reports c) titles

20. Does the newspaper _____ the government or oppose it?

a) assist b) encourage c) support

TASK 14. Colin Hunter is a young reporter on a local newspaper. Read the account of his experience after working there for a few months. Complete the passage. To help you, the first letter of each word is given.

The life of a young r_______ (1) on a local newspaper is not easy. When you start, you imagine yourself as a l_______ w_______ (2), commenting on world affairs so intelligently that the paper receives hundreds of r_______ ' (3) letters congratulating you on the e_______ (4). In fact, you have to be everything, without being anyone.

On Wednesdays, I do the h______ (5), usually saying something nice about my sign and my girlfriend's. On Thursdays, I write the g_______ c_______ (6), though in my case it only concerns the Mayor and his friends. On Fridays, I am a book r_______ (7), even though most of our readers only read the s_______ (8) pages of the Argus, and on Saturdays, I write those, too. I watch football matches in the pouring rain and think of wonderful w_______ f_______ (9), but the s_______ (10) changes them, and often changes the result, too.

I am also a film c_______ (11), but I can't criticize the films because the p_______ (12) of the Argus also owns the local cinema. If I could draw, I expect they would make me the c_______ (13)! The only other j_______ (14) on our staff is Sally. She does the woman's page, and also the f_______ (15) page, which she copies out of the colour supplements in the national Sunday papers. The most important person in the office is Jack, the advertising manager. As he says, "All these classified a_______ (16), the a_______ (17) of births and marriages and the situations v_______ c_______ (18) for people looking for jobs and so on, pay for the rubbish you write". I hope that one day I will be able to write his o_______ (19).

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