2023终极八篇第二篇原文+题目.docx

"It, s like tasering an elderly person who7 s already on a pacemaker/7 says a British newspaper boss of the newsprint market, where prices have risen by over 50% in a matter of months. The cost of paper that feeds into presses around the world is rising to record highsz pushing up expenses for newspapers from Mumbai to Sydney. When times were goodz before ads shifted online, newspapers had a supportive partnership with paper mills. As ads departed and circulations fellz relations became more transactional. They are now at the shouting stage.Paper mills had the worst of it for years as newspapers reduced pagination, went wholly digital or shut for good. The papers were able to hammer down the cost of newsprint from firms fighting for business as demand declined. Price-taking paper mills suffered in silence. Many hesitated to shut massive machines costing hundreds of millions of dollars.That hesitance has disappeared; mills are taking out newsprint capacity and diversifying. Many mills are converting machines to make packaging for e-commerce. The mills " moved from being price takers to being capable co-participants in a declining market/7 says Tim Woods OfIndustryEdgez a research firm for Australia and New Zealand7 s forestry and paper industries.The pandemicz with people working from home, meant even fewer newspaper purchases, which depressed demand for newsprint again and increased the pain for paper suppliers. In the past 24 months European mills have responded by shutting almost a fifth of their newsprint capacity, says a buyer for a large British newspaper group.Germany7 s print and media industry association has warned that mills are going to force newspapers to dump paper editions, hurting each other in the process. "It' s about the famous branch that both of them are sitting on/7 it said recently. But mills can sell packaging instead. ''We' re not going to save the publishing industry by being unprofitable ourselves/7 says a mill executive in North America.For some publishers, price rises will wipe out profits. They will need to do further restructuring involving cutting titles and layoffs. Iwan Le Moine of EMGE7 a British paper-industry consultancy, expects a big increase in 2022 of the number of papers that shut compared with a typical year. That will lower demand and nudge the market back towards equilibrium. But newspapers will have more hard conversations about paperz says Douglas McCabe of Enders Analysis, a research firm. More digital adrenaline is one possible answer to the paper mills7 tasers.Ql: By mentioning "t, s like tasering an elderly person who7 s already on a pacemaker” , the author implies thatA. Newspaper industry is making profitsB. Newspaper industry breaks up with paper millsC. Newspaper industry is on the cliffD. Newspaper industryQ2: According to the 2nd and 3rd paragraphs, paper millsA. Have kept silent about status quoB. Have launched self-rescuing operationsC. Have turned to e-commerce businessD. Have changed their pricing strategyQ3: Paper suppliers7 pain has been deepened byA. Working peopleB. The pandemicC. The newspaper industryD. The pandemicQ4: According to the Germany7 s print and media industry association,newspaper industry may faceA. A strike back from its former alliesB. A loss of packaging marketC. A loss of customers favoring paper editionsD. A competition from the paper millsQ5: We can Iearn from the last paragraph that close down of newspapers willA. facilitate the layoffs in newspaper industryB. terminate the conversations with millsC. Cultivate a boost in digital adrenalineD. Bring down the cost of paper