纸。

　　4．According to the passage, newspapers are ________.

　　A．more popular today

　　B．less popular today

　　C．as popular as before

　　D．getting more and more popular

　　解析：选B　细节理解题。关键是理解文章的第一句话，由此可知报纸的地位已不如从前。

　　5．According to the author, which of the following newspapers will most probably attract the reader's attention?

　　A．The ones with interesting pictures and exciting headlines on the front page.

　　B．The ones with sports news on the front page.

　　C．The ones with classified ads on the front page.

　　D．The ones with gossip columns on the front page.

　　解析：选A　推理判断题。由第一段第五句可知，新闻往往用一些图片和令人感兴趣的标题来吸引读者注意。

　　6．The author's attitude towards newspapers is ________.

　　A．sympathetic B．critical

　　C．negative D．undetermined

　　解析：选A　作者态度题。由文章的第一句话可知作者对报纸今非昔比的状况有点感慨，作者认为报纸应该受到人们更多的关注。

　　C

　　During an airport delay (延误) the man to the left, a Korean perhaps, starts talking to the man opposite, who might be Colombian, and soon they are chatting away in what seems to be English. But the native English speaker sitting between them cannot understand what they are saying.

　　The Korean and the Colombian are actually speaking Globish, the latest addition to the 6,800 languages that are said to be spoken across the world. Not that its inventor, Jean­Paul Nerrière, considers it a proper language.

　　"It is not a language; it is a tool，" he says. "A language is the vehicle of a culture. Globish doesn't want to be that at all." It is a means of simplifying the English language and giving it rules so it can be understood by all.

Globish involves a vocabulary limited to 1,500 words, short sentences, basic grammar rules, and many hand gestures to get the point across. The word list goes from "able" to "zero". "Niece