[填空题]the fact that the digital revolution could undermine the giant entertainment companies

[简答题]Before the Industrial Revolution, there could have been few family reunions as we know this ceremony at the present time, with its assembling of infrequently-encountered but still familiar figures and the consequent going up to day with the events in other people’ s lives. Present-day impressions of this important occasion are of a strange blending of formalities, plain speaking, with a general lack of natural warmth.

[填空题]The digital revolution. as exemplified by the Internet and
electronic commerce, has shaken marketing practices in their core. (1)
In a recent paper, Wharton’s Jerry Wind, director of the SEI Center
for Advanced Studies in Management, and author Vijay Mahajan, (2)
a marketing professor at the College of Business Administration of
the University of Texas at Austin, examines the impact of digital (3)
marketing on concepts like pricing, when customers can propose their
own prices, or buyers and sellers can haggle independent in auctions. (4)
The paper provides an overview of some of the emerging realties and
new rules of marketing in a digital world, and outlines the new (5)
discipline of marketing may look like in the early part of the new century.
To begin with, say the aut

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CHICAGO-The fact that an obscure scientist could become an instant media celebrity by announcing he was ready to create a human clone shows the degree to which the issue fascinates and scares humankind, experts said last week.
"It’s not a fear of science but of how to control the technology-" and that goes back in fiction to Frankenstein," said Anne Figert, a professor in the anthropology and sociology department at Loyola University of Chicago.
"We weren’t upset about (cloning) animals," she added. "It’s the same reason we’re concerned about abortion or using reproductive technologies. Twenty years ago it was test tube babies-it treads so closely to human life itself."
The idea also has an irresistible pull because it touches on a central theme throughout civilization: The search for immortality, added Kenneth Howard, a professor of psychology at Northwestern University in Chicago.
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A. out of the ordinary
B. out of tune
C. out of control
D. out of action

[简答题]Industrial Revolution

[填空题]The American Revolution was not a revolution in the sense of a radical or total change. It was not a sudden and (47) overturning of the political and social framework, such as later occurred in France and Russia, (48) both were already independent nations. Significant changes were ushered in, (49) they were not breathtaking. What happened was accelerated (50) rather than outright revolution. During the conflict, people went on working and praying, marrying and playing. Most of them were not (51) disturbed by the actual fighting, and many of the more isolated communities scarcely knew that a war was on.
America’s War of Independence heralded the birth of three modem nations. One was Canada, which (52) its first large influx of English-speaking population from the thousands of loyalists who fled there from the United States; (53) was Australia, which became a penal colony now that America was no longer (54) fo