Struggling with an evaporation of advertising and a downward drift in street corner sales, TheNew York Times intends to introduce a “metered” model at the beginning of 2011. Readers willbe required to pay when they have _2_ a set number of its online articles per month.

　　The decision puts the 159-year-old newspaper on the charging side of an _3_ wide chasm (鴻溝)in the media industry. But others, including the Guardian, have said they will not _4_internet readers.

　　The New York Times's publisher, Arthur Sulzberger, _5_ that the move is a gamble. Boasting aprint _6_ of 995,000 on weekdays and 1.4 million on Sundays, The New York Times is the thirdbestselling American newspaper, behind the Wall Street Journal and USA Today. While most USpapers focus on a single city, The New York Times is among the few that can claim _7_ scope—as well as 16 bureaus in the New York area, it has 11 offices around the US and maintains 26bureaus elsewhere in the world.

　　But like many in the publishing industry, the paper is in the grip of a _8_ financial crisis. Itsparent company, the New York Times Company, has 15 papers, but _9_ a loss of $70 million inthe nine months to September and recently accepted a $250 million _10_ from a Mexicanbillionaire， Carlos Slim, to strengthen its balance sheet.

　　A) national B) interactively C) circulation D) loan

　　E) crude F) exceeded G) charge H) ascend

　　I) abandoning J) suffered K) serious L) deducting

　　M) increasingly N) evaluation O) acknowledged

　　解題思路

　　1.[I]空格所在句主謂賓結構完整，故需填入及物動詞的分詞形式，作伴隨狀語。空格前說《紐約時報》著手制定對電子新聞產品收費的計劃，空格后說現行的習慣做法(the accepted practice)是互聯網為用戶提供免費新聞，可見它要“放棄”這種習慣做法，abandoning “放棄”符合句意。

　　2.[F]此處需填入謂語動詞，由have可知為過去分詞形式。根據動詞賓語a set number of...(—定量的)，填人exceeded “超過”符合句意，表示：當讀者每月閱讀網上文章超過一定量時，就被要求付費。

　　3.[M]此處需填人副詞，修飾wide。本句說《紐約時報》的決定使它處于收費(charging)的一邊，這表明它與提供免費新聞的傳媒業之間的鴻溝擴大了很多，故increasingly“日益，更加”正確。

　　4.[G]此處需填入動詞。前一句說《紐約時報》決定站在收費(charging)的一邊，but轉折詞和否定詞not說明《衛報》等其他傳媒不會對讀者“收費”，charge為本題答案。

　　5.[O]此處需填入謂語動詞，其后賓語從句意為:此舉是一種賭博。這是講Arthur Sulzberger的看法，應使用過去時態.acknowledged “承認”符合語義。

　　6.[C]空格后的of…表明此處需填人名詞。根據空格后的99.5萬、140萬，再結合主句中的信息：《紐約時報》是美國第三大最暢銷報紙，可知circulation“發行量”正確。

　　7.[A]此處需填人scope的修飾語，可為名詞、形容詞或分詞。上半句講到，多數美國報紙都立足于某個城市，句首表轉折對比的while表明后半句是講《紐約時報》覆蓋的范圍廣，故選national一詞,與上半分句的 asingle city形成對比。

　　8.[K]此處需填人形容詞或分詞,修飾financial crisis“金融危機”。從下文所說的母公司所遭受的巨額損失a lossof $70 million,可知金融危機是serious“嚴重的”。

　　9.[J]此處需填人謂語動詞,后接賓語a loss of...。suffered a loss為常見搭配，表示“遭受損失”。

　　10.[D]此處需填人accepted的賓語，應為名詞。空格前提到《紐約時報》母公司損失了7000萬美元，所以最近接受了2.5億美元的……來緩解資產負債，空格處填人loan“貸款”符合語義邏輯。

　　The U.S. dollar was supposed to be at the end of its rope. Kicking the bucket. A dying symbolof a dying empire. Well, maybe not. The dollar continues to _1_ gloom-and-doom predictions.After a swoon (低迷)last year, the dollar is again enjoying a major _2_. The U.S. dollar index,which measures the dollar’s value against other major currencies, is just off an eight-monthhigh.

　　The main reason behind the dollar’s recovery is actually no real surprise at all. There is no _3_able to replace the dollar as the world’s No.l currency. What makes currencies so fascinatingis that their perceived value is always relative to other currencies. Sure, the U.S. budget deficitis _4_, the government’s debt is increasing, and Wall Street is still repairing itself. But the dollarremains the prettiest of a flock of ugly ducklings. Is any other major industrialized economy_5_ better off than the U.S.? Not really. Just about the _6_ developed world is suffering withthe same problems. That’s why when investors get nervous, they still rush to the good olddollar. The dollar wins because no one else is really in the game.

　　The euro has been exposed as a _7_. Only a few months ago, economists truly believed theeuro could _8_ the dollar as the top reserve currency. Now experts are questioning if theeuro has a future at all. The Greek debt crisis has _9_ that the euro is only as strong as itsweakest link.

　　Maybe over the next 20 or 30 years，the dollar will slowly lose the _10_ status it holds today.That process, however, could well be driven by the appearance of new rivals.

　　A)fraud B)consistently C)dominant D)expanding

　　E)entire F)incentive G)rival H)alleged

　　I)defy J)particularly K)alternative L)relative

　　M)revealed N)intriguing O)rally

　　解題思路

　　1.[I] continues to表明此處需填入動詞原形。上文的maybe not提示美元可能未沒落，本句內容延續此意。而空格后的gloom-and-doom predictions表示“美元注定走向沒落的預測”，故空格處填人的詞應含有否定含義，defy“不服從，蔑視;挑戰”符合語境。

　　2.[O]根據空格前的enjoying和a，可知此處應填人含積極意義的單數名詞。rally有“價格回穩之意，跟下文的an eight-month high及recovery照應，表示美元經過了去年的低迷，再次止跌回升了。

　　3.[K]此處需填入名詞。根據空格后的后置定語“能代替美元作為世界第一貨幣”，可知alternative“供選擇的東西”符合語境，與replace the dollar…語義連貫。

　　4.[D]根據空格后兩個并列句的結構，可知此處應填入與increasing和repairing形式一致的現在分詞。空格后提到政府的債務正在增加，故此句所說的美國預算赤字應該也在增加。expanding表示“擴大，增加”，符合上下文語義。

　　5.[J]空格所在句主干結構完整，意為:是否有其他國家的工業化經濟比美國還要好?故應填入副詞。Particularly“尤其”可形容程度，符合上下文語義。下文Not really表明其他國家的工業化經濟都比不上美國，故排除 consistently “一貫地;一向”。

　　6.[E]此處應填人修飾developed world的詞。上文的Not really表明沒有哪個工業化國家比美國更好，故此處表示“全部的”發達國家都遭受同樣的問題，entire與上文any other呼應，符合語境。

　　7.[A]不定冠詞a表示此處應填入可數名詞單數形式。下文說到，經濟學家之前完全相信(truly believed)歐元可以作為最好的儲備貨幣，而現在專家們對此表示質疑(questioning)。因此空格所在句表達的意思應為歐元不可信，fraud“騙子”符合上下文語義。

　　8.[G] could表明此處需填入動詞原形。根據空格后的as the top reserve currency(作為最佳儲備貨幣)，可知此處表示歐元和美元競爭該殊榮，rival“競爭;相匹敵”符合語境。

　　9.[M]此處應填入動詞的過去分詞，與has—起構成完成時態。revealed“顯露;透露”符合此處語境，表示希臘債務危機“顯示了”歐元最強的一面也是其最弱的一面。

　　10.[C]此處需填入修飾status的詞。上文表明美元現在還是處于重要地位，故dominant“主要的，統治的”正確，這里指未來20年或30年后美元可能會慢慢失去現有的統治地位。