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Since moving pictures were invented a century ago, a new way of distributing entertainment to consumers has e (66) about once every generation. Each such inno (67) has changed the industry irreversibly; each has been acco (68) by a period of fear mixed with exhilaration. The a (69) of digital technology, (70) translates music, pictures and text into the zeros and ones of computer language, marks one of those p (71) . This may sound familiar, because the digital revolution, and the explosion of choice that would go (72) it, has been shown for some time. In 1992, John Malone, chief executive of TCI, an American cable giant, welcomed the "500-channel universe. " Digital television was about to deliver everything (73) pizzas to people’s living rooms. When the entertainment companies (74) (try) out the technology, it worked fine--but not at a price (75) people were prepared to pay. Those 500 channels eventually arrived but via the Internet and the PC (76) than through television. The digital revolution was starting to affect the entertainment business in (77) (expect) ways. Eventually it will change every aspect of it, from the way cartoons are made to the way films are screened to the way people buy music. That much is clear. (78) nobody is sure of is how it will affect the economics of the business. New technologies always contain within them both t (79) and opportunities. They have the potential both to make the companies in the business a great deal r (80) , and to sweep them away. Old companies always fear new technology.
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Questions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage. Paper is different from other waste produce because it comes from a sustainable resource: trees. Unlike the minerals and oil used to make plastics and metals, trees are replaceable. Paper is also biodegradable, so it does not pose as much threat to the environment when it is discarded. While 45 out of every 100 tons of wood fibre used to make paper in Australia comes from waste paper, the rest comes directly from virgin fibre from forests and plantations. By world standard this is a good performance since the worldwide average is 33 per cent waste paper. Governments have encouraged waste paper collection and sorting schemes and at the same time, the paper industry has responded by developing new recycling technologies that have paved the way for even greater utilisation of used fibre. As a result, industry’s use of recycled fibres is expected to increase at twice the rate of virgin fibre over the coming years. Already, waste paper constitutes 70% of paper used for packaging and advances in the technology required to remove ink from the paper have allowed a higher recycled content in newsprint and writing paper. To achieve the benefits of recycling, the community must also contribute. We need to accept a change in the quality of paper products; for example stationery may be less white and of a rougher texture. There also needs to be support from the community for waste paper collection programs. Not only do we need to make the paper available to collectors hut it also needs to be separated into different types and sorted from contaminants such as staples, paperclips, string and other miscellaneous items. There are technical limitations to the amount of paper which can be recycled and some paper products cannot be collected for reuse. These include paper in the form of books and permanent records, photographic paper and paper which is badly contaminated. The four most common sources of paper for recycling are factories and retail stores which gather large amounts of packaging material in which goods are delivered, also offices which have unwanted business documents and computer output, paper converters and printers and lastly households which discard newspapers and packaging material. The paper manufacturer pays a price for the paper and may also incur the collection cost. Summary: From the point of view of recycling, paper has two advantages over minerals and oil in that firstly it comes from a resource which is sustainable and secondly it is less threatening to our environment when we throw it away because it is (61) Although Australia’s record in the reuse of waste paper is good, it is still necessary to use a combination of recycled fibre and (62) to make new paper. The paper industry has contributed positively and people have also been encouraged by (63) to collect their waste on a regular basis. One major difficulty is the removal of ink from used paper but (64) are being made in this area. However, we need to learn to accept paper which is generally of a lower (65) than before and to sort our waste paper by removing contaminants before discarding it for collection.
Questions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage. Canadian authorities relayed that suspicion to the U. S. Coast Guard, which dispatched a cutter to intercept the vessel. After a two-week chase, the cutter’s crew finally boarded the Cao Yu 6025, a stateless ship, south of Japan. In the hold, they found damning evidence: 110 tons of tuna and shark fins, and a drift gillnet almost 20 kilometers long--an indiscriminate killer of marine life banned on high seas under an international agreement. Out of sight, and mostly out of mind, the oceans are under siege. Scientists from around the world are reporting global disturbances in the seas that threaten to bring Richard Cashin’s grim warning home to every Canadian household. From the polar seas to the tropics, fish populations have collapsed or teeter on the brink. In a third of the Pacific, plankton that form the foundation of the marine food chain are vanishing. In every corner of the planet, increasing temperatures are obliterating some species, while driving others into unfamiliar waters. As science scrambles to make sense of uneven data, evidence points to an alarming conclusion, the sea, the cradle of life, is dying. The killers are numerous. The most obvious, global over fishing, harvests 70 per cent of the world’s species faster than they can reproduce themselves. But the scientific community is not even sure that is the worst menace to the seas. Other major threats: human pollution, including an estimated 700 million gallons of toxic chemicals dumped into the sea each year, and global warming, widely attributed to industrial production of so-called greenhouse gases, which appears to be affecting ocean temperatures. Sharply pricier seafood is only the mildest consequence; others are far more serious. In many parts of the world, fishing jobs have disappeared. On Canada’s East Coast, 26,000 unemployed former fish workers drew income from the federal government’s Atlantic Ground fish Strategy--15,000 from Newfoundland alone--until its $1.9 billion in funding ran out in August. Far worse, developing countries dependent on marine protein confront the risk of mass starvation. In many regions, rival national claims to the seas’ diminishing harvest hold potential for armed conflict. More terrifying still is the specter of ecological Armageddon, as the oceans lose the capacity to generate the oxygen on which life itself depends. For too many species, extinction has already come. Half a century ago, 600,000 barn door skate swam North America’s Atlantic seaboard. Never intentionally fished, they nonetheless frequently became ensnared in nets or on hooks. By the 1970s, scientists could find no more than 500 skate throughout its previous range. Now, they can’t find any. "If bald eagles were as common as robins and then disappeared, someone would notice," says biologist Ransom Myers of Hallifax’s Dalhousie University. "In the ocean, no one knows. No one cares. " Belatedly, a handful of governments and others have begun to notice, to care and to act, moving tentatively to rein in the worst abuses of the seas. The patrol that spotted the Cao Yu was one of six that Canada donates each year to enforce an international ban on drift nets, blamed for killing dolphins, sharks, turtles, and seabirds, in addition to their intended catch. On September 1, the federal government designated two protected marine habitats at Race Rocks and Gabriola Passage, British Columbia--the first in a promised chain of preserves in Canadian waters where fishing will be banned. On the same day, an international commission concluded three years of study by urging coastal nations to bury their differences and form a world authority to regulate fishing beyond the 200-mile (370-killometer) economic zones of individual states. Questions : A world authority should be established to regulate fishing beyond ______ of individual states.
为进一步贯彻落实《国务院关于加强土地调控有关问题的通知》(国发[2006]31号)关于“社会保障费用落实的不得批准征地”的精神，切实做好被征地农民社会保障工作，劳动和社会保障部、国土资源部联合出台了《关于切实做好被征地农民礼会保障工作有关问题的通知》。( )
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