Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each questions.

The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City. For a long time, it has been a newspaper of record in the United State and one of the world’s great newspapers. Its strength is in its editorial excellence; it has never been the largest newspaper in terms of circulation.

The Times was established in 1851 as a penny paper whose editors wanted to report the news in a restrained and objective fashion. It enjoyed early success as its editors set a pattern for the future by appealing to a cultured, intellectual readership instead of a mass audience. However, in the late nineteenth century, it came into competition with more popular, colorful, if not lurid, newspapers in New York City. Their publishers ran sensational stories, not because they were true, but because they sold newspapers. Despite price increases, the time was losing £1,000 a week when Adolph Simon Ochs bought it in 1896.

Ochs built the Times into an internationally respected daily. He hired Carr Van Anda as editor. Van Anda placed greater stress than ever on full reporting of the news of the day, and his reporters maintained and emphasized existing good coverage of international news. The management of the paper decided to eliminate fiction from the paper, added a Sunday magazine section, and reduced the paper’s price back to a penny. In April 1912, the paper took many risks to report every aspect of the sinking of the Titanic. This greatly enhanced its prestige, and in its coverage of two world wars, the Times continued to enhance its reputation for excellence in world news. In 1971, the Times was given a copy of the so-called “Pentagon Papers,” a secret government study of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam war. When it published the report, it became involved in several lawsuits. The U.S. Supreme Court found that the publication was protected by the freedom-of-the-press clause in the First Amendment of the U.S Constitution. Later in the 1970s, the paper, under Adolph Ochs’s grandson, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, introduced sweeping changes in the organization of the newspaper and its staff and brought out a national edition transmitted by satellite to regional printing plants.

What is the main idea of the passage?

• A. The New York Times publishes the best fiction by American writers.
• B. The New York Times became highly respected throughout the world.
• C. The New York Times lost its prestige after the Vietnam War.
• D. The New York Times broadcasts its news to TV stations via satellite.

• Câu 2: Mã câu hỏi: 40064

  It can be inferred from the passage that the circulation of the New York Times is _______.

  • A. not the largest in the world
  • B. the worst in the world
  • C. not the best in the world 
  • D. the smallest in the world

• Câu 3: Mã câu hỏi: 40065

  Which phrase is closest in meaning to the word “restrained” in paragraph 2?

  • A. With self-control
  • B. Put in prison
  • C. Without education
  • D. In handcuffs

• Câu 4: Mã câu hỏi: 40066

  What word or phrase does the word “his” in paragraph 3 refer to?

  • A. Van Anda
  • B. News of the day
  • C. Reporters
  • D. International news

• Câu 5: Mã câu hỏi: 40067

  To improve its circulation, the management of the Times did all the following EXCEPT: _____

  • A. increased the number of lurid stories, even if they were not true.
  • B. added a Sunday magazine section.
  • C. emphasized good coverage of international news.
  • D. eliminated fiction from the paper.

• Câu 6: Mã câu hỏi: 40068

  The passage implies that the newspaper’s reputation _____

  • A. decreased when it lowered its price to a penny.
  • B. grew because Adolph Ochs bought it in 1896.
  • C. decreased because it could not compete with other New York papers.
  • D. increased because of its coverage of the Titanic’s sinking.

• Câu 7: Mã câu hỏi: 40069

  According to the passage, the Times has a national edition that is ____

  • A. shipped by train and air transport daily.
  • B. protected by the Supreme Court 
  • C. printed in the form of a Sunday magazine.
  • D. transmitted by satellite to regional printing plants.