Cloze Test – Test 80

In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. Find out the appropriate word/phrase in each case.

Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that inform society to at least (21) degree. The word applies to the occupation (professional or not), the methods of (22) information, and the organizing literary styles. Journalistic media (23): print, television, radio, Internet, and, in the past, newsreels. Concepts of the appropriate role for journalism varies between countries. In some nations, the news media is controlled by a government intervention, and is not a fully independent body. In others, the news media is independent from the government but the profit motive is in tension with constitutional protections of freedom of the press. Access to freely available information gathered by independent and competing journalistic enterprises with transparent editorial standards can (24) citizens to effectively (25) in the political process. In the United States, journalism is protected by the freedom of the press clause in the First Amendment.

In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. Find out the appropriate word/phrase in each case.

Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that inform society to at least (21) degree. The word applies to the occupation (professional or not), the methods of (22) information, and the organizing literary styles. Journalistic media (23): print, television, radio, Internet, and, in the past, newsreels. Concepts of the appropriate role for journalism varies between countries. In some nations, the news media is controlled by a government intervention, and is not a fully independent body. In others, the news media is independent from the government but the profit motive is in tension with constitutional protections of freedom of the press. Access to freely available information gathered by independent and competing journalistic enterprises with transparent editorial standards can (24) citizens to effectively (25) in the political process. In the United States, journalism is protected by the freedom of the press clause in the First Amendment.

In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. Find out the appropriate word/phrase in each case.

Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that inform society to at least (21) degree. The word applies to the occupation (professional or not), the methods of (22) information, and the organizing literary styles. Journalistic media (23): print, television, radio, Internet, and, in the past, newsreels. Concepts of the appropriate role for journalism varies between countries. In some nations, the news media is controlled by a government intervention, and is not a fully independent body. In others, the news media is independent from the government but the profit motive is in tension with constitutional protections of freedom of the press. Access to freely available information gathered by independent and competing journalistic enterprises with transparent editorial standards can (24) citizens to effectively (25) in the political process. In the United States, journalism is protected by the freedom of the press clause in the First Amendment.