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[单项选择]Our public debates often fly off into the wild blue yonder of fantasy. So it’s been with the Federal Communications Commission’s new media-ownership rules. We’re told that, unless the FCC’s decision is reversed, it will worsen the menacing concentration of media power and that this will--to exaggerate only slightly--imperil free speech, the diversity of opinion and perhaps democracy itself. All this is more than overwrought; it completely misrepresents reality.
In the past 30 years, media power has splintered dramatically; people have more choices than ever. Travel back to 1970. There were only three major TV networks (ABC, CBS, NBC); now, there’s a fourth (Fox). Then, there was virtually no cable TV; now, 68 percent of households have it. Then, FM radio was a backwater; now there are 5, 892 FM stations, up from 2, 196 in 1970. Then, there was only one national newspaper (The Wall Street Journal); now, there are two more (USA Today and The New York Times).
The idea that
A. he is in favor of it.
B. his view is balanced.
C. he is slightly critical of it.
D. he is strongly critical of it.
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If you plan to fly off on your holidays this Christmas or New Year,
relax. Forget the fact that airliner crashes have killed more people in the
world this year than ever before. According to aviation information consultancy
Airclaims, 1,187 passengers have been killed in 1996, three times more than last
year.
61) {{U}}But despite this increase, described by aviation experts as a
statistical abnormality, the overall trend is for an even lower rate of
accidents{{/U}}. Increased growth in travel may give the impression that the
actual accident incidence is increasing.
62) {{U}}Spectacular catastrophes
grab the headlines, like the mid-air collision between a Saudi Arabia Airlines
Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Airlines Ilyushin IL-76 freighter near New Delhi last
month, which killed 349{{/U}}. But the accidents on the world’s roads kills
hundreds of thousands of people and goes largely unreported.
63) {{U}}So
while you’re strapped in your seat a
