The Voice of America began during the WorldWar II . When Germany was broadcasting a radio program to get international ___1___ , American officials believed they should ___2___ the German broadcast with words that they thought were the facts of worldevents. The first VOA news report began with words in ___3___ . “The ___4___ may be good or bad, but we shall tellyou the truth.” Within a week, other VOA ___5___ were broadcasting in Italian, French and English. After the World War II endedin 1945, some Americans felt VOA’s ___6___ had to be changed, ___7__ the Soviet Union becameenemy of America. They wanted to ___8__ Soviet listeners.Then VOA began broadcasting in Russian. In the early yearsVOA began adding something new to its broadcast that was ___9___ “ Music USA”. Another new idea came along in 1959.VOA knew that manylisteners did not know ___10___ English tocompletely understand its ___11___ English broadcast.So VOA ___12___ a simpler kind ofEnglish, ___13___ uses about 1,500 wordsand is spoken ___14___ of course, it is specialEnglish. In the ___15___ of most VOA listeners, the most ___16___ program is the news report. News from around the world ___17___ into the VOA news rooms in Washington 24 hours a day. It comes from VOAreporters in ___18___ cities and also fromother ___19___ like BBC.VOA writers andeditors use these materials to __20___ news reports,which are being broadcast in 43 languages. 1. A.businessB.culture C.support D.information 2. A.reply B.answerC.join D.interrupt 3. A.same B.shortC.English D.German 4. A.newsB.problems C.effects D.opinions 5. A.stationsB.news C.announcers D.officials 6. A.homeB.position C.purpose D.results 7. A.if B.supposingC.considering D.in order that 8. A.reachB.satisfy C.attack D.support 9. A.knownB.reported C.called D.printed 10.A.AmericanB.British C.standard D.enough 11.A.normal B.fastC.good D.exact 12.A.inventedB.discovered C.taught D.stopped 13.A.it B.whoC.which D.that 14.A.slowlyB.rapidly C.normally D.loudly 15.A.pleasureB.course C.opinion D.advice 16.A.difficultB.important C.various D.common 17.A.flies B.sendsC.delivers D.pasts 18.A.all B.majorC.American D.news 19.A.broadcastsB.forms C.newspapers D.countries 20.A.broadcastB.announce C.translate D.prepare