IV Interpret the following sentences from the text.
a) How to survive and even flourish in a culture more attuned to electronic media… b) It is safe to say that newspapers are not about to follow the Mors telegraph into oblivion. c) “Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable…” d) They are our chroniclers of daily life, sorting, sifting and bringing a sense of order to a disorderly world. e) The production division does the heavy lifting of newspaper work. f) Any subscriber to a daily newspaper knows that it plops onto the driveway in the wee hours of this morning. g) In 18 hours of highly coordinated work carried out by numerous divisions, what newspaper people call a “rough draft of history”. V Find synonyms to the following words: Efficient way Formidable competitor Dominant mass media Lug a computer monitor To be adept at reinventing To coin a definition Human folly Civic events Wrongdoing VI Match the verb on the left with the words on the right 1. To expose a. papers 2. To possess b. area 3. To confront c. news 4. To serve d. detailed stories 5. To interpret e. events 6. To make f. misbehavior 7. To assign g. deadlines 8. To enforce h. stories 9. To contain i. the news 10. To cover j. readers 11. To deliver k. competitors 12. To emphasize l. qualities
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