As time _____, the power of newspapers seems to be on the rise., flies, passes, goes, drags, The power of newspapers seems to be on the _____., increase, rise, expansion, build, In the relatively _____ past, people were predicting that the influence of the written word would diminish., latest, distant, immediate, recent, People predicted that the influence of the written word would diminish in _____ proportion to the increase of TV and video., exact, direct, precise, equal, The Internet, cable and satellite television, Teletext and multimedia computers in _____ other home should have affected newspapers., all, any, every, one, These new technologies should surely have _____ for newspapers by now., done, gone, stood, set, How have newspapers survived, let alone _____, particularly on a Sunday?, flourished, bloomed, flowered, rooted, Why do people who have seen a football or tennis _____ live or on television rush to read about it the next day?, game, set, match, meeting, Why do people rush to read a _____ version of the event in four or five columns?, curtailed, cut, reduced, potted, Why would someone who has seen a film and formed a _____ impression of it read a review the following day?, vivid, coloured, bright, direct, Why would someone read a review of the _____ film in a newspaper?, above-mentioned, aforesaid, latter, previous, Don’t we have colleagues to see if our ideas on any _____ song, film or programme tally with theirs?, given, taken, subjected, written, What is this product that _____ of not much more than outrageous headlines, wayward comment and subjective editorials?, comprises, contains, consists, informs, It seems for the time _____ to be leading a charmed life., out, being, given, present, When it finally goes, though, many may come to mourn its _____., perishing, dying, falling, passing

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