大师作文网在线求指导：阅读表达.
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在线求指导：阅读表达.
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| As De Witt Wallace lay in bed recovering from injuries that he unfortunately came by in World War I,he found there was a wealth of interesting information to read.Realizing few people would have the time to get through all this information,he knew exactly ____.In 1920,this young American presented a sample magazine containing condensed (浓缩的) articles to publishers across America.All turned him down. De Witt was not discouraged.He and his wife Lila Bell Acheson published the first issue of Reader's Digest in February 1922.Working from home,the Wallaces printed 5,000 copies,which were sold by mail to 1,500 people and priced at 25 cents. From these small beginnings grew the world's most widely read magazine. The magazine became popular and,by 1935,sales had topped one million.In 1938,the first international edition was published in the United Kingdom.During World WarⅡ,editions were published for the first time in Latin America and Sweden After the war Reader's Dig Test moved into Australia,Belgium,Canada,Denmark, Finland,France,Germany,Italy,Norway,South Africa and Switzerland.In 1950,Reader's Digest published its condensed books (now known as Select Editions in Australia).In 1959,music,the first non-print product line, was introduced.In 1962,Reader's Digest revolutionized direct mail by introducing easy-to-enter Sweepstakes and a year later the first Reader's Digest general book was published.In 1986,video was added to the Reader's Digest product. In 1973,the Wallaces gave up active management of Reader's Digest.De Witt died in 1981,aged 91; Lila in, 1984,aged 94.With no heirs to the Wallace empire to take over,Reader's Digest became a public company in the early 1990s and is now headed by a Chief Executive Office and Chairman of the Board.Reader's Digest is one of the most successful publishing stories in the history of global magazines. |
| 1.What's the best title of the passage?(Please answer within 10 words.) _______________________________________________________________________________________ 2.Which sentence in the passage is closest in meaning to the following one?Everyone refused to publish his magazine. _______________________________________________________________________________________ 3.Please fill in the blank in the first paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence.(Please answer within 10 words.) _______________________________________________________________________________________ 4.What do you think of the Reader's Digest?(Please answer within 30 words.) _______________________________________________________________________________________ 5.Translate the underlined sentence in the second paragraph into Chinese. _______________________________________________________________________________________ |
1. The birth of Reader's Digest
2. All turned him down.
3. what to do
4. I think it is an excellent and popular magazine because we can get lots of information from it.
5. 这本世界上最受读者喜爱的杂志就是从这样微小的起开始的.
答案不唯一
2. All turned him down.
3. what to do
4. I think it is an excellent and popular magazine because we can get lots of information from it.
5. 这本世界上最受读者喜爱的杂志就是从这样微小的起开始的.
答案不唯一