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{Page} The Great Newspaper War
Up until about 100 years ago, newspapers in the United States appealed only to the most serious readers. They used 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 New York Morning Journal. Pulitzer______ (53) the New York World in 1883. He changed it from a traditional newspaper into a very______(54) one overnight (一夜之间). He______ (55) lots of illustrations and cartoons. And he told his reporters to write articles on______(56) crime or scandal they could finD.And they diD.One of them even pretended she was crazy and then she was______ (57) to a mental hospital. She then wrote a series of articles about 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 more sensational (轰动的) and more exciting ______ (60) the New York WorlD.He also wanted it to be cheaper, so he______ (61) the price by a penny. Hearst attracted attention because his headlines were bigger than______(62). He often said, 'Big print makes big news.'
Pulitzer and Hearst did anything they______(63) to sell newspapers. For example, Hearst sent Frederic Remington, the famous illustrator (插图画家), to
______(64) pictures of the Spanish-American War. When he got there, he told Hearst that no fighting was______ (65). Hearst answered, 'You furnish (提供) the pictures, I'll furnish the war.'
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Every Dog Has Its SayKimiko Fukuda, a Japanese girl, always wondered what her dog was trying to say.Whenever she put on makeup, it would pull at her sleevE.____________ (46) When the dog barks, she glances at a small electronic gadget (装置).The following 'human'.translation appears on its screen: 'Please take me with you.' '1 realized that's how he was feeling,' said FukudA.The gadget is called Bowlingual, and it translates dog barks into feelings. People laughed when the Japanese toymaker Takara Company made the world's first dog-human translation machine in 2002. But 300,000 Japanese dog owners bought it.___________ (47)'Nobody else had thought about it,' said Masahiko Kajita, who works for TakarA.'We spend so much time training dogs to understand our orders; what would it be like if we could understand dogs?'Bowlingual has two parts. ____________ (48) The translation is done in the gadget using a database (资料库) containing every kind of bark.Based on animal behaviour research, these noises are divided into six categories:happiness, sadness, frustration, anger, declaration and desirE.____________ (49) In this way, the database scientifically matches a bark to an emotion, which is then translated into one of 200 phrases.When a visitor went to Fukuda's house recently, the dog barked a loud 'bow wow'.This is translated as 'Don't come this way'.____________ (50)The product will be available in US pet stores this summer for about US$120. It can store up to 100 barks, even recording the dog's emotions when the owner is away.A.A wireless microphone is attached to the dog's collar, which sends information to the gadget held by the owner.B.Nobody really knows how a dog feels.C.It was followed by 'I'm stronger than you' as the dog growled (嗥叫) and sniffed (嗅)at the visitor.D.More customers are expected when the English version is launched this summer.E.Now, the Japanese girl thinks she knows.F.Each one of these emotions is then linked to a phrase like 'Let's play', 'Look at me',Or 'Spend more time with me'.第 46 题 请选择(46)处的最佳答案.
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