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10. In spite of her old age, she climbs the mountain.

D. READING

Read the passage and choose the best answer for each blank.

There has been a revolution in the world of newspapers. Not many years (1)___________, newspapers were still being

produced using techniques unchanged for (2)___________ hundred years.

The journalists gave their stories to a typist, who prepared them for an editor, who passed them on to the printer. The printer,

who was a very skilled man, set up the type. (3)___________ was then collected to make the pages. When the pages were complete,

the printing machine could be started.

Nowadays what happens? The journalists type their stories into a computer. The (4)__________ checks their spelling, plans

the page, shapes the articles. When the pages are ready, another computer may control the printing.

(5)___________ van be no doubt about it, producing a newspaper is an entirely different business now.