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Questions 10-19Newspaper publishers in the United States have long been enthusiastic usersand distributors of weather maps. Although some newspapers that had carried theUnited States Weather Bureau's national weather map in 1912 dropped it once thenovelty had passed, many continued to print the daily weather chart provided by(5) their local forecasting office. In the 1930's, when interest in aviation and progress inair-mass analysis made weather patterns more newsworthy, additional newspapersstarted or resumed the daily weather map. In 1935, The Associated Press (AP) newsservice inaugurated its WirePhoto network and offered subscribing newspapersmorning and afternoon weather maps redrafted by the AP's Washington, B.C., office(10)from charts provided by the government agency. Another news service, United Press International (UPI), developed a competing photowire network and also providedtimely weather maps for both morning and afternoon newspapers. After the UnitedStates government launched a series of weather satellites in 1966, both the AP andUPI offered cloud-cover photos obtained from the Weather Bureau.(15) In the late 1970's and early 1980's, the weather map became an essentialingredient in the redesign of the American newspaper. News publishers, threatenedby increased competition from television for readers' attention, sought to packagethe news more conveniently and attractively. In 1982, many publishers feltthreatened by the new USA Today, a national daily newspaper that used a page-wide,(20)full-color weather map as its key design element. That the weather map in USA21 Today did not include information about weather fronts and pressures attests to thelargely symbolic role it played. Nonetheless, competing local and metropolitannewspapers responded in a variety of ways. Most substituted full-color temperaturemaps for the standard weather maps, while others dropped the comparatively drab(25)satellite photos or added regional forecast maps with pictorial symbols to indicaterainy, snowy, cloudy, or clear conditions. A few newspapers, notably The New YorkTimes, adopted a highly informative yet less visually prominent weather map thatwas specially designed to explain an important recent or imminent weather event.Ironically, a newspaper's richest, most instructive weather maps often are(30)comparatively small and inconspicuous.
10. What does the passage mainly discuss?
(A) The differences between government and newspaper weather forecasting in the United States.
(B) The history of publishing weather maps in United States newspapers
(C) A comparison of regional and national weather reporting in the United States.
(D) Information that forms the basis for weather forecasting in the United States

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答案：B
難度：簡單0.75
統計：A(0),B(3),C(1),D(0),E(0)

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