Who won the World Cup 1994 football game？ What happened at the United Nations？ How did the

critics like the new play？ 【21】______ an event takes place; newspapers are on the streets 【22】______ the details. Wherever anything happens in the world, reports are on the spot to 【23】______ the news.

Newspapers have one basic 【24】______ , to get the news as quickly as possible from its source, from those who make it to those who want to 【25】______ it. Radio, telegraph, television, and 【26】______ inventions brought competition for newspapers. So did the development of magazines and other means of communication. 【27】______ , this competition merely spurred the newspapers on. They quickly made use of the newer and faster means of communication to improve the 【28】______ and thus the efficiency of their own operations. Today more newspapers are 【29】______ and read than ever before. Competition also led newspapers to branch out to many other fields. Besides keeping readers 【30】______ of the latest news, today's newspapers 【31】______ and influence readers about politics and other important and serious matters. Newspapers influence readers' economic choices 【32】______ advertising. Most newspapers depend on advertising for their very 【33】______ . Newspapers are sold at a price that 【34】______ even a small fraction of the cost of production. The main 【35】______ of income for most newspapers is commercial advertising. The 【36】______ in selling advertising depends on a newspaper's value to advertisers. This 【37】______ in terms of circulation. How many people read the newspaper？ Circulation depends 【38】______ on the work of the circulation department and on the services or entertainment 【39】______ in a newspaper's pages. But for the most part, circulation depends on a newspaper's value to readers as a source of information 【40】______ the community, city, country, state, nation, and world—and even outer space.

【21】

A．Just when

B．While

C．Soon after

D．Before