UNIT 14 TEST 2I. PRONUNCIATIONCHOOSE THE WORD THAT HAS THE MAIN STRESS...

50. a. longest b. widest c. biggest d. deepestB. Read the passage, then choose the correct answer.In the 20th century, magazines have been a major growth area of popular publishing. Specialistmagazines cater to every imaginable field and activity. In the United Kingdom, over 12,000 periodicals,magazines, bulletins, annuals, trade journals, and academic journals are published on a regular basis.There are some 40 women's magazines and over 60 dealing with particular sports, games, hobbies, andpastimes. Although some US magazines, such as The Saturday Evening Post, has succumbed tocompetition of television, many continue "to have enormous international circulations, The Reader'sDigest over 16 million, The National Geographic over 10 million. For many people, magazines havebeen the most available and widely used form of continuing education, providing information abouthistory, geography, literature, science, and the arts, as well as guidance on gardening, cooking, homedecorating, financial management, psychology, even marriage and family life.Until the rise of television, magazines were the most available form of cheap, conveniententertainment in the English-speaking world. Radio served a similar function, but it was more limited inwhat it could do. Magazines and television, however, both address the more powerful visual sense.During the third quarter of the 20th century, coincident with a dramatic rise in the popularity oftelevision, many general-interest, especially illustrated magazines went out of business. The shift inattention of a mass, audience from reading such magazines to watching television has been a majorfactor in this decline, but it is an implicit tribute from television to the older genre that its programs aregenerally organized in a single format and content.