(12) As a mass media, newspapers and periodicals played an irreplaceable role in the spread of China's modern democratic thought. Read the following materials: material 1.

(1) Features: Newspape

(12) As a mass media, newspapers and periodicals played an irreplaceable role in the spread of China's modern democratic thought. Read the following materials: material 1.

(1) Features: Newspapers run by Chinese people are mainly concentrated in treaty ports and big cities; The popularity of self-run newspapers and periodicals in China is in a period of reform and transformation. People of insight run newspapers to save the country (combining running newspapers with saving the national crisis); The establishment of newspapers and periodicals had a great influence on China society. (3 points) Reason: the demand of social situation (the deepening of national crisis); The influence of foreigners running newspapers (external influence); Promote the development of national capitalism. (3 points)

(2) Reporting news and transmitting information; Contact people's feelings; Spreading knowledge and opening people's wisdom; Speak out and discuss politics and guide public opinion. (3 points)

(3) To provide a position for the debate with reformists (royalists); Propagandize the ideas and concepts of democracy and (democratic revolution); Create motivation and accelerate the revolutionary process. (3 points)

Analysis of test questions: This question examines students' ability to read historical materials and summarize them. The answer to the question (1) is summarized according to the materials. The words "Hankou", "Shanghai" and "Guangzhou" in the first document can show that the location of running newspapers is concentrated in trading ports and big cities, while "When the time is ripe, after War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Chinese people will express their political views, covering the whole period" shows that running newspapers is combined with the national crisis, and the reasons why Chinese people run newspapers can be analyzed and answered from both internal and external reasons in combination with the background of the times. Question (2) Summarize the main functions of newspapers with materials. The key to solving the problem is to read the historical materials and then sum up what you have learned. For example, the text "Report of News Facts" in Material 2 explains the news reporting function of newspapers, and "Investigation of China's national conditions and the invention of political science and technology" refers to the function of spreading knowledge. (3) To analyze the influence of newspapers and periodicals on the Revolution of 1911, we need to interpret the materials. The third material mainly introduces People's Daily, which is a propaganda tool of the Revolution of 1911. The fourth material explains the propaganda function of newspapers after Wuchang Uprising. The words "how powerful the newspaper is" in the material illustrate the great role of the newspaper in propagating the opposite side of the revolution.