The most noticeable trend among today’s
media companies is vertical integration—an attempt to control several related
aspects of the media business at once, each part helping the other. Besides
publishing magazines and books, Time Warner, for example, owns Home Box Office
(HBO), Warner movie studios, various cable TV systems throughout the United
States and CNN as well. The Japanese company Matsushita owns MCA Records and
Universal Studios, and manufactures broadcast production equipment.
To describe the financial status of today’s media is also to talk about
acquisitions. The media are buying and selling each other in unprecedented
numbers, and forming media groups to position themselves in the marketplace to
maintain and increase their profits. In 1986, the first time a broadcast network
had been sold, two networks were sold
A. The changing technology employed by the media.
B. The media’s increasing profits in the marketplace.
C. The ever tougher regulations of the FCC on the media since 1980.
D. The availability of the media’s stocks on stock exchanges.
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[单项选择] Passage Five
The most noticeable trend among today’s
media companies is vertical integration—an attempt to control several related
aspects of the media business at once, each part helping the other. Besides
publishing magazines and books, Time Warner, for example, owns Home Box Office
(HBO), Warner movie studios, various cable TV systems throughout the United
States and CNN as well. The Japanese company Matsushita owns MCA Records and
Universal Studios, and manufactures broadcast production equipment.
To describe the financial status of today’s media is also to talk about
acquisitions. The media are buying and selling each other in unprecedented
numbers, and forming media groups to position themselves in the marketplace to
maintain and increase their profits. In 1986, the first time a broadcast network
had been sold, two networks were sold
A. They both belong to Rupert Murdoch.
B. They are both big American media corporations.
C. They are both outlets of differing viewpoints and innovative ideas.
D. They both own several different but related media businesses.
[单项选择] Passage Five
Most people who develop Lyme disease, a
tick-borne infection that’s endemic in parts of the Northeast and Midwest, are
easily cured by taking an antibiotic like doxycycline for a couple of weeks. But
for years a debate has raged over what to do about patients whose symptoms
(fatigue, mental confusion, joint pain) never seem to clear up. One small but
vocal group of doctors and patient advocates believes that Lyme’s
corkscrew-shaped spirochetes have tunneled deep into their victims’ bodies and
can be eradicated only with intensive antibiotic treatment over many months.
Another group believes, just as adamantly, that the bacteria are long gone,
making further treatment with powerful antibiotics—which can lead to potentially
fatal infections or blood clots—positively dangerous.
Now comes
word of two studies in the New England Jour
A. is one of the contagious diseases
B. is spread by a kind of tiny bugs
C. causes infection all over the body
D. develops against any painkillers
[单项选择] Passage Five
One of the most strikingly apparent
instances of extrasensory perception is the precognitive experience, when a
person has a compelling perception of a coming disaster, news of death of a
loved one, or a communication from a long-lost friend, and the predicted event
then happens. Many who have had such experiences report that the emotional
intensity of the precognition and its subsequent verification provide an
overpowering sense of contact with another realm of reality. I have had such an
experience myself. Many years ago, I awoke in the middle of night in a cold
sweat, with a certain knowledge that a close relative had suddenly died. I was
so gripped with the haunting intensity of the experience that I was afraid to
place a long-distance phone call, (for fear that the relative would trip over
the telephone cord or something and m
A. Because what happened in his/her dream was not verified by reality.
B. Because the institute would overreact to this letter.
C. Because the author was afraid his dream would come true if he wrote the letter.
D. Because the author believed such a dream was indeed rather ridiculous.
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