NPR边听边练09:报纸VS网络,报业前景如何
时间：2018-12-03 作者：英语课 分类：NPR边听边练
英语课
【NPR边听边练】致力于提供新鲜有趣、饶有意味的时讯资料，致力于通过精听的方式促进听力提高，致力于不断开阔眼界和深入了解美国观点。
精听建议：
先完整地把一条新闻听一到三遍，争取掌握大意。然后，一句一句精听，力争每句话都听明白。遇到实在不懂的地方，再听写。
下面的文本材料中空缺部分里面要填的词都很简单，不过是一些值得注意的连读或者典型的美式发音哦，有些语速比较快。试试看，你能不能全部写对？
（参考文本，欢迎指出错误^^）
We called Jeff Collar, a consultant 1 to the newspaper industry. He says ___(1)___ declining circulation is by design. ___(2)___ readers, some companies are now putting quality over quantity.
"For years, the objective of the industry was expansion and to deliver the highest circulation number possible. Some newspapers sold ___(3)___ to entitle new subscribers. But when you factor in the high cost of discounting, that's a lesser 2 unit of circulation. So some of these losses are filling in the hurt, ___(4)___."
But still a lot of newspapers are infected, ___(5)___ and they certainly don't want to. And where are they going? The Internet, I gather, is doing rather well.
答案：
1.some of the
2.When it comes to
3.a lot of subscriptions 3
4.if you will
5.losing readers
1 consultant
n.顾问；会诊医师，专科医生
- He is a consultant on law affairs to the mayor.他是市长的一个法律顾问。
- Originally,Gar had agreed to come up as a consultant.原来，加尔只答应来充当我们的顾问。
2 lesser
adj.次要的，较小的；adv.较小地，较少地
- Kept some of the lesser players out.不让那些次要的球员参加联赛。
- She has also been affected,but to a lesser degree.她也受到波及，但程度较轻。
3 subscriptions
n.（报刊等的）订阅费( subscription的名词复数 )；捐款；（俱乐部的）会员费；捐助
- Subscriptions to these magazines can be paid in at the post office. 这些杂志的订阅费可以在邮局缴纳。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Payment of subscriptions should be made to the club secretary. 会费应交给俱乐部秘书。 来自《简明英汉词典》