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It is a common theme in many science fiction stories that the world may one day be ______
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The center of the excitement was the first dual deck videotape recorder available to US consumers, the VCR 2, made by the tiny Arizona based Go video company. The VCR 2 enables its users to make high quality duplicates of prerecorded tapes easily. It also lets viewers watch a tape while simultaneously recording off the. air. Go-video hopes to have a limited supply of the VCR 2 in stores by Christmastime, priced at just under $1,000. But the machine's move from freeze frame. to faster forward has not been easy. For starters, Go-video could find no Japanese companies, which control manufacture of crucial VCR parts, willing to provide needed components. For another thing, US movie studios opposed the machine. So the company sued 15 Japanese and Korean makers, plus the Hollywood studios, claiming restrain of trade. Several manufactures have now settled with Go-video, and Korea's Samsung, is tooling up to produce the VCR 2. Meanwhile, Hollywood has modified its opposition because Go-video agreed to install circuitry that will prevent the VCR 2 from copying movies protected by antitheft coding. Still movie makers may see double for a while. Many of the films on store shelves, including hot new rentals like Coming to America and Crocodile Dundee 11, do not contain the coding.
VCR has many advantages, but it also has its limits which lie in ______.
Washington Irving was America's first man of letters to be known inter nationally. His works were received enthusiastically both in England and in the United States. He was, in fact, one of the most successful writers of his time in either country, delighting a large general public and at the same time winning the admiration of fellow writers like Scott in Britain and Poe and Hawthorne in the United States. The respect in which he was held was partly owing to the man himself, with his warm friendliness, his good sense, his urbanity, his spirits, his artistic integrity, his love of both the Old World and the New. Thackery described Irving as' a gentleman, who, though himself born in no very high sphere, was most finished, polished, witty; socially the equal of the most refined Europeans. ' In England he was granted an honorary degree from Oxford--an unusual honor for a citizen of a young, uncultured nation--and he received the medal of the Royal Society of Literature; America made him ambassador to Spain.
Irving's background provides little to explain his literary achievements. A gifted but deliberate child, he had little schooling. He studied law, but without zeal, and never did practice seriously. He was immune to his strict Presbyterian home environment, frequenting both social gatherings and the theatre.
Which of the following best describes the effect of Irving's personal qualities on his literary success？
听力原文： The United Nations Security Council is meeting to discuss a year-long investigation into the UN oil-for- food program which was intended to lessen the hardship caused by sanctions against Saddam Hussein's Iraq. It is expected to conclude that UN needs sweeping reform. including stronger leadership. Lora T. reports,
UN Security Council members are now hearing the conclusions of Paul Volcker's report. The preface released on Tuesday made some comfortable reading for the UN. Paul Voleker says there were serious instances of illicit, unethical and corrupt behavior. within the organization. The UN was asked to do too much too soon in running the "oil-for-food" program, he says. The Secretary General's diplomatic and political responsibilities were all consuming, says the report. And Kofi Annan didn't have the administrative structure to oversee the enormous program.
What is the aim of the oil-for-food program？
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