Unit 4. TEST. A Daily, A Weekly, A Monthly... (O.Karpiuk). Variant 2

1.Match to make correct sentences.

2.Complete the text with the following words: entertain, magazines, articles, mass media, printed, information.

Magazine is one of the major (1)            . Ma­gazine is a collection of (2)          and stories. Magazines usually contain illustrations. Magazines provide (3)             on a wide range of topics such as business, culture, hobbies, medicine, religion, science and sports. Some magazines (4)           their readers with fiction, poetry, photography or articles about TV or movie stars. Magazines are designed to be kept for a longer time in comparison to newspapers and that is why they are (5)         on a better paper and have covers and binding. Magazines, unlike newspa­pers, do not focus on daily, rapidly changing events. There are specialized (6)           intended for special business, industrial and professional groups, and consumer magazines intended for general public. There are several kinds of con­sumer magazines.

3.Choose the correct word.

Newspaper is a publication that presents and comments on the news. Newspapers play an important role in shaping public opinion and informing people of (1)              [provides, printed, current, finance, cover, circulation]  events. The first newspapers were probably handwritten newssheets posted in public places. Newspaper can (2)              [provides, printed, current, finance, cover, circulation]  more news and in much detail than TV and radio newscasts can do. Magazines focus on major national and international of the preceding week. But newspaper focuses on local news as well and (3)              [provides, printed, current, finance, cover, circulation]  information and comments faster than magazine can do. There are about 1.700 daily and 7.500 weekly newspapers in the US. The circulation of some weeklies is no more than a few hundred of copies per issue and the (4)              [provides, printed, current, finance, cover, circulation]  of some dailies is over a million of copies. Daily newspapers print world, national and local news. Many dailies are morning papers, others are afternoon papers. Sunday issues of the dailies are usually larger than the weekday ones. They may include special sections on such topics as entertainment, (5)              [provides, printed, current, finance, cover, circulation]  and travel or Sunday magazine, a guide to TV programs, colored comics. Weekly newspapers serve usually for smaller areas. They are (6)              [provides, printed, current, finance, cover, circulation]  in small communities where people know each other and are interested in activities of their friends and neighbours. Weeklies report of weddings, births, deaths and news of local business and politics. Most weeklies do not print world or national news.