Read the text. Choose the best option to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks
18. Read the text. Choose the best option to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks.
Not the Normal News Newspapers and television news programs always seem to (1 ) ………………about the bad things happening in society. However, there is a place where readers can find some good news. That place is the website called HappyNews. The man behind HappyNews is Byron Reese. Reese (2) ………………HappyNews because he thought other news sources were giving people an( 3) …………..view of the world. Reese said about HappyNews, “The news media gives you a distorted view of the world by exaggerating bad news, misery, and despair. We’re trying to balance out the scale.” Not everyone agrees with Reese’s view, though. Many people think that news sources have a (4) ………….to provide news that is helpful to people. People need to know about issues or problems in today’s society. Then people are better able to( 5)………….. informed decisions about things that affect their daily lives. Reese said that HappyNews is not trying to stop people from (6) …………..about issues or problems. HappyNews is just trying to provide a balanced picture of today’s world.( 7)……………. its first month online, HappyNews had more than 70,000 unique readers. About 60 percent of those readers were women. Something else unique makes HappyNews different from any of the other news or information websites that are on the Internet. Unlike many other websites, HappyNews gets fan mail from its readers on (8) ……………..daily basis.
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Not the Normal News Newspapers and television news programs always seem to (1 ) ………………about the bad things happening in society. However, there is a place where readers can find some good news. That place is the website called HappyNews. The man behind HappyNews is Byron Reese. Reese (2) ………………HappyNews because he thought other news sources were giving people an( 3) …………..view of the world. Reese said about HappyNews, “The news media gives you a distorted view of the world by exaggerating bad news, misery, and despair. We’re trying to balance out the scale.” Not everyone agrees with Reese’s view, though. Many people think that news sources have a (4) ………….to provide news that is helpful to people. People need to know about issues or problems in today’s society. Then people are better able to( 5)………….. informed decisions about things that affect their daily lives. Reese said that HappyNews is not trying to stop people from (6) …………..about issues or problems. HappyNews is just trying to provide a balanced picture of today’s world.( 7)……………. its first month online, HappyNews had more than 70,000 unique readers. About 60 percent of those readers were women. Something else unique makes HappyNews different from any of the other news or information websites that are on the Internet. Unlike many other websites, HappyNews gets fan mail from its readers on (8) ……………..daily basis.
1. Report talk introduce discuss
2. Take up get up set up put up
3. Unbalance uncontrolled unknown unequaled
4. Mission goal chance responsibility
5. Do create take make
6. To learn learned learning learn
7. At the end by the end of by the end at in the end at
8. An the a 0