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JAMB Use of English 2014 Question 12

Question 12

Cloze Passage
JAMB 2014 Passage III: Setting up a newspaper (cloze)
Setting up a newspaper involves a lot of preparations. The ...11... has to employ a lot of people. Other people working with him are cartographers, editors, typesetters, readers, who work in various ways to produce the text of the newspaper, ...12..., who go out and collect stories and items of news, and ...13..., who specialize in one kind of topic. Another important person who works closely with the Editor-in-Chief is the ...14..., who has to choose the most important stories ...15... go through stories sent to them and make necessary adjustments.

The Editor-in-Chief could determine for instance, whether a particular journalist should write articles daily or weekly in a particular column. Such a journalist is known as ...16... . The editorials of the newspaper will be coordinated by ...17... .

The publisher could decide to establish ...18... which would be on sale weekly, fortnightly or monthly ...19... the eye catching, screaming headlines and captions of newspapers on sale everyday from the ...20... .

Adapted from Idowu, et al. (1998) Round-up English: A Complete Course. Lagos: Longman

Passage III, gap 12: Other people working with him are cartographers, editors, typesetters, readers, who work in various ways to produce the text of the newspaper, ________ (12), who go out and collect stories and items of news...

  1. A.agents
  2. B.reporters
  3. C.analysts
  4. D.vendors
Show the answer and explanation

Answer: B (reporters)

Explanation

People who go out to collect news are reporters.