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根据材料,完成题。America's most popular newspaper website today announced that the era of free online journalism is drawing to a close. The Nero York Times has become the biggest publisher yet to 1plans for a paywall around its digital offering,2the accepted practice that
internet users will not pay for news.
Struggling 3 an evaporation of advertising and a downward drift in street corner sales, The Nero York Times4to introduce a "metered" model at the beginning of 2011. Readers will be required to pay when they have5a set number of its online articles per month.
The decision puts the159-year-old newspaper 6 the charging side of an increasingly wide chasm (鸿沟) in the media industry. But others, including the Guardian, have said they will not 7 internet readers, and certain papers, 8 London's Evening Standard, have gone further in abandoning readership revenue by making their print
editions 9.
The New York Times's publisher, Arthur Sulzberger,10that the move is a gamble."This is a11 , to a certain degree, in where we think the web is going. " Boasting a print 12 of 995000 on weekdays and 1.4 million on Sundays, The New York Times is the third bestselling American newspaper,13the Wall Street Journal and USA Today. 14 most US papers focus on a single city, The New York Times is among the few that can 15 national scope--as well as 16 bureaus in the New York area, it has 11 offices around the US and 16 26 bureaus elsewhere in the world.
But 17 many in the publishing industry, the paper is in the grip of a 18 financial crisis. Its parent company, the New York Times Company, has 15 papers, but 19 a loss of $ 70 million in the nine months to September and recently accepted a $ 250 million 20 from a Mexican billionaire, Carlos Slim, to strengthen its balance sheet.
请在第__(1)__处填上正确答案。 A.set in
B.set out
C.carry over
D.carry away
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