Television is one of today’s most powerful and widespread means of mass communication. It directly influences our lives on both a short and long-term basis; it brings worldwide situations into our homes; it affords extensive opportunities for acquiring higher education; and it performs these tasks in a convenient yet effective manner. We are all aware of the popularly accepted applications of television, particularly those relative to entertainment and news broadcasting. Television, however, has also been a vital link in unmanned deep space exploration (such as the Voyager I and Ⅱ missions), in providing visions from hazardous areas (such as proximity to radioactive materials or environments) in underwater research, in viewing storms moving across a metropolitan area (the camera being placed in a weather-protective enclosure near the top of a tower), etc. The earth’s weather satellites also use television cameras for vie- wing cloud cover and movements from 20,000 mil
A. positive
B. indifferent
C. critical
D. dangerous
Today no one has ever doubted about television’s charm. Since 1920s Britain invented the first television, people have begun to live in a world crowded with soap operas, news magazines and TV advertisements. 41．______However, have we ever tried to find out the magic here Why did the television win the competition with paper media and radio in such a short period By what kind of contention did TV finally control most of the audiences And why does TV become the means the industrial circles scramble for
It is argued that television may not be a form of art, but fifteen thousand years before the primitive people had left urus drawings on Altamira Cave in Spain, which proved that pictures are human ever-lasting pursuit much earlier than letters. 42．______The coming of the 19th century foretold a mass media times and also the break-through in arts because of the rapid development in technology. First by the invention of photography photos showed up before people in a way
Today, one of the major newspaper websites in America stated that free online news reading is approaching its end. The New York Times has turned into the biggest publisher yet to (26) plans for a payment of its digital products, (27) the accepted rule that people who use Internet will not need to pay for news.
In order to struggle (28) the disappearance of advertising and a reduction in street corner newspaper sales, The New York Times (29) to take in a "metered" model early in 2011. If readers have (30) a set number of its online articles every month, they will have to pay some charge.
As a result, the motion puts the quite old newspaper (31) the charging side which gets a daily-wide gap(鸿沟) in the media industry. One the other hand, other famous newspapers, among which is the Guardian, have expressed they will not (32) those who use Internet to read, and other certain papers, (33)
A. controls
B. manipulates
C. maintains
D. encourages
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