18. TEST 1 – THE MEDIA 01

I don’t think this newspaper cartoon is very funny, but I like the _____ under it.

   

• label

• caption

• message

• text

When you go out, will you get me _____ of Newsweek?

        

• a copy

• an edition

• a paper

• a publication

A _____ from the local newspaper asked for details of the accident.

     

• broadcaster

• reporter

• newsagent

• salesman

The press couldn’t speak to the Ministry employees: they had to wait for a statement from the Government _____.

     

• messenger

• reporter

• speaker  

• spokesman

Although there is no official censorship in our country, the press is still _____ the laws of the land.

   

• accountable to

• controlled by

• subject to

• restrained by

A newspaper _____ normally makes the final decision about the paper’s contents.

     

• publisher

• journalist

• reporter

• editor

Dear Sirs, I am writing in response to your _____ for a sales clerk in yesterday’s “Business Man”.

   

• propaganda

• announcement

• advertisement

• publicity

I read a newspaper every day to keep _____ with current affairs.

     

• up-to-date

• modern

• present-day

• contemporary

There is a very interesting _____ about cancer in the paper.

    

• programme

• article

• news

• documentary

Our newspaper increased its _____ by eighty thousand copies.

• amount 

• quantity

• numbers

• circulation