[单项选择]New forms of media have always caused moral panics: the printing press, newspapers, and television were all once denounced as threats to their consumers’ brainpower and moral fiber. So too with electronic technologies. PowerPoint, we’re told, is reducing speech to bullet points. Search engines lower our intelligence, encouraging us to skim on the surface of knowledge rather than dive to its depths. Twitter is shrinking our attention spans.
But such panics often fail basic reality checks. When comic books were accused of turning juveniles (少年) into delinquents (有违法倾向) in the 1950s, crime was falling to record lows, just as the denunciations of video games in the 1990s coincided with the great American crime decline. The decades of television, radios and rock videos were also decades in which I. Q. scores rose continuously.
For a reality check today, take the state of science, which demands high levels of brainwork and is measured by clear standards of discovery. These days sci
A. comic books and video games could reduce all kinds of crimes
B. people gave new media a warm welcome
C. new medias could change people’s personality
D. people’s panics about new media were groundless

[单项选择]New forms of media have always caused moral panics: the printing press, newspapers, and television were all once denounced as threats to their consumers’ brainpower and moral fiber. So too with electronic technologies. PowerPoint, we’re told, is reducing speech to bullet points. Search engines lower our intelligence, encouraging us to skim on the surface of knowledge rather than dive to its depths. Twitter is shrinking our attention spans.
But such panics often fail basic reality checks. When comic books were accused of turning juveniles (少年) into delinquents (有违法倾向) in the 1950s, crime was falling to record lows, just as the denunciations of video games in the 1990s coincided with the great American crime decline. The decades of television, radios and rock videos were also decades in which I. Q. scores rose continuously.
For a reality check today, take the state of science, which demands high levels of brainwork and is measured by clear standards of discovery. These days sci
A. drive people insane
B. make people impatient
C. threaten people’s brainpower
D. improve people’s attention span

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Now that many media chieftains have fallen into disrepute and have left, those who are still in positions feel the need to take the problem seriously.
"CEOs were overturned as were some stocks." That is how AOL Time Warner entertainment group Chairman Jeff Bewkes summed it up. The era of the "imperial" (one-man rule) CEO has come to an end, MTV Networks Chairman Tom Freston added.
The two executives agreed that the industry’s complex and often ill-fated megs mergers had proven that bigger is not necessarily better, no matter how big the reputations of the personalities behind them.
The continuing flameout of media executives who a few years ago were hailed as visionaries was active this month, and the industry’s fears reached into the executive ranks of music, publishing and TV.
Technology visionary Steve Case left as chairman of AOL Time Warner, replaced by Chief Executive Richard Parsons. Top executives at Sony Mus
A. media chieftains are visionary and active
B. media executives have big reputations and nice personalities
C. the media industry should be cautious about merger
D. the media industry is too complicated to handle

[单项选择]Now that many media chiefs have fallen into disrepute (坏名声) and have left, those who are still in positions feel the need to take the problem seriously. CEOs were overhyped (炒作) as were some stocks. This is how AOL Time Warner group chairman Jeff Bewkes summed it up. The era of the imperial CEO has come to an end, MTV Networks Chairman Tom Freston added. The two executives agreed that the industry’s complex and often ill-fated mega mergers (大型合并) had proven that bigger is not necessarily better, no matter how big the reputations of the personalities behind them.
The continuing fall of media executives who a few years ago were hailed as visionaries(有远见卓识者) was active this month, and the industry’s fears reached into the executive ranks of music, publishing and TV. Technology visionary Steve Case left as chairman of AOL Time Warner, replaced by chief executive Richard Parsons. Top executives at Sony Music, MCA Records and Random House were laid off. And Walter Isaacson, chairman o
A. CEOs often own stocks of their companies
B. CEOs can influence the industry like Some stocks
C. CEOs are rising and falling like some stocks
D. CEOs are controlling companies’ fate like some stocks

[填空题]In Europe as elsewhere, multi-media groups have been increasingly successful;____________________ (即这些集团把相互之间有紧密系的电视台、电台、报纸、杂志、出版社组合到了一起)

[填空题]moral

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