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考研英语-827
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At last weekend’s consumer-electronics show in Las Vegas, digital convergence arrived with a vengeance. Among the avalanche of new products were lots of mobile phones. Those fitted with digital cameras and camcorders are hardly new, but they now take even better pictures. Others can be used to play three-dimensional video games. Download movies, watch live TV (and record it during an incoming call), operate home-security systems and listen to music files downloaded from the internet. More marvels are on the way. In the midst of this frenzy of new and unfamiliar gizmos, product features would seem to count for everything. But companies in the hypercompetitive electronics industry are discovering something unexpected, and curious: brands matter almost as much as dazzling new technology.
One of the clearest demonstrations of this is South Korea’ s Samsung Electronics, which made a big splash this year in Las Vegas. Samsung was once best know
A. the location of production carried much weight.
B. brand has always exercised its decisive role.
C. great changes used to take place in markets.
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"We find that the fleeting uses of the wordsK ‘penis’,‘vaginal’,‘ass’,‘bastard’ and ‘ bitch’uttered in the context of the programs cited in the complaints, do not render the material patently offensive under contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium." Making decisions like this is one of the more thankless tasks of America’s media regulator, the Federal Communications Commission. Since 1927 the FCC has tried to protect children from "indecency"--sexual content and swear words--on broadcast television and radio.
Under pressure from social conservatives, America’s politicians are now threatening to extend indecency regulation further. If they get their way, not just broadcast television and radio but cable and satellite TV, and possibly satellite radio, would be monitored by the FCC for indecency. America’s media firms have been shaken by t
A. capability of keeping the young from violence.
B. context of contemporary community.
C. complaints of programs.
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Women account for almost half the workforce in western countries, and the lower ranks of many big companies reflect that ratio. But at the top of the corporate ladder it is a different story. For every ten men in the executive suite there is one woman, a ratio that has changed little since the term "the glass ceiling" was coined two decades ago to de scribe the barrier that allows women to see the top of the corporate ladder, but seems to stop them from reaching it. Despite much discussion, and efforts by both women’ s and business groups to break that barrier down, the world’ s biggest companies are still almost exclusively run’ by men.
Yet, at the same time, a growing number of those companies have become convinced that it makes good business sense to have more women in their executive suite. Hardnosed male bastions such as ABB, BP and General Electric have renewed their efforts to help women reach the higher levels, not
A. its interest in lucrative business.
B. its conventional work-moral values.
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Even the Saudis--or rather, the small number of men who actually rule their troubled country--are giving ground in the struggle for women’ s rights. For sure, the recommendations (1) this week to Crown Prince Abdullah at the end of an (2) round of "national dialogue" concentrating on the role of women were fairly tame. In the reformers-versus-reactionaries (3) test of whether women should be allowed to drive cars ( at present they cannot do so in the kingdom, nor can they travel unaccompanied, by whatever (4) of motion) , the king was merely asked to" (5) a body to study a public transport system for women to facilitate mobility". (6) mention, of course, of the right to vote--but then that has been (7) to men too, though local elections, on an apparently universal franchise, are supposed to be held in October. In sum, it is a tortoise’ s progress. But the very fact of the debate happening at all isA. strategies
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As usual, America’ s supreme court ended its annual term this week by delivering a clutch of controversial decisions. The one that caught the attention of businessmen, and plenty of music lovers, was a ruling concerning the rampant downloading of free music from the internet.
Nine elderly judges might have been forgiven for finding the entire subject somewhat baffling. In fact, their lengthy written decisions on the case betray an intense interest, as well as a great deal of knowledge. Moreover, they struck what looks like the best available balance under current laws between the claims of media firms, which are battling massive infringements of their copyrights, and tech firms, which are keen to keep the doors to innovation wide open.
This case is only the latest episode in a long-running battle between media and technology companies. In 1984, in a case involving Sony’ s Betamax video recorder, the Supreme Court ruled that techno
A. hand out.
B. demonstrate.
C. disclose.
D. ward off.