专题03 短文选词填空12篇-【好题汇编】备战2023-2024学年高一英语下学期期中真题分类汇编（上海专用）

专题03 短文选词填空12篇 （22-23高一下·上海·期中）Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need. A．essentially    B．possibility    C． analyzed    D．inspired    E. react F. tracking    G. necessarily    H. rules    I. list    J. disasters    K. positive Bad news sells. If it bleeds, it leads. No news is good news, and good news is no news. Those are the classic 1 for the evening broadcasts and the morning papers. But now that information is being spread and monitored in different ways, researchers are discovering new rules. By 2 people’s e-mails and online posts, scientists have found that good news can spread faster and farther than 3 and sob stories. “The ‘if it bleeds’ rule works for mass media,” says Jonah Berger, a scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. “They want your eyeballs and don’t care how you’re feeling. But when you share a story with your friends, you care a lot more how they 4 . You don’t want them to think of you as a Debbie Downer.” Researchers studying word-of-mouth communication — e-mails, Web posts and reviews, face-to-face conversations — found that it tended to be more positive than negative, but that didn’t 5 mean people preferred positive news. Was positive news shared more often simply because people experienced more good things than bad things? To test for that 6 , Dr. Berger looked at how people spread a particular set of news stories: thousands of articles on The New York Times’ website. He and a Penn colleague 7 the “most e-mailed” list for six months. One of his first finds was that articles in the science section were much more likely to make the 8 than non-science articles. He found that science amazed Times’ readers and made them want to share this 9 feeling with others. Readers also tended to share articles that were exciting or funny, or that 10 negative feeling