12. The word \bane of the modem corporation\ (A) cause of trouble (B) structural improvement
(C) result of competition (D) impact of globalization
13. Which of the following does not support the statement that \success story ...is something of an aberration.\
(A) He has not yet published a best-selling management book. (B) He is not an experienced office manager.
(C) He has had no direct experience in leading a world championship. (D) He is interested in nothing but art and business at the university. 14. Which of the following CANNOT be concluded from Truran's comment (para.7)?
(A) Charles Moose is an exception of celebrity culture.
(B) Moose's African-American background is a special advantage. (C) The lecture circuit is a growing profitable new career. (D) Moose's quit of police chief is only natural as he became an instant-hero.
15. Sanborn uses \_______.
(A) dealing with topics such as leadership, team-building and customer service
(B) preparing dynamic demonstration tape
(C) acquiring techniques to address experienced corporate audiences
(D) meeting the requirement for speaking experience before being hired Questions 16-20
Bob Barnes never dreamed that the long arm of the music industry would reach into his personal computer. Sure, the bus operator had used Napster to grab music files off the Internet. And when that file-swapping service was put out of business, he switched to its most popular successor, Kazaa. But he was careful not to leave a trace, transferring all his downloaded songs to separate discs. A visiting teenage grandson wasn't so careful, however, and last week Barnes, 50, was slapped with a subpoena from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It alleged that he had posted online--for the world to steal digital copies of songs by Savage Garden, Marvin Gaye and the Eagles. \ Barnes may be a pirate, but he has plenty of company. An estimated 60 million Americans, more than the number of Bush voters in 2000, are using file-sharing networks on the Internet. Until last week it seemed like a safely anonymous pursuit. But then RIAA started subpoenaing colleges and Internet-service providers (ISPs) for the names and addresses of more than 950 computer owners--some of whom, like Barnes, were trafficking in stolen music without knowing it. A lot of music downloaders don't realize that they are also distributors. On Kazaa, for example, the tunes you store in the designated download folder are automatically broadcast back to other users. Unless you turn off sharing or move the music to a different place on your hard drive, anybody can reach into your computer and take a copy (as long as you are online and running Kazaa.)
How many songs do you have to have in that folder to catch the eye of the
music police? A thousand? A dozen? Just one? RIAA, which is trying to put the fear of litigation into as many music pirates as it can, is playing coy. It has declined to say whom it is targeting or how many more subpoenas it plans to issue. So far, though, most of the file sharers it has gone after were dealing in hundreds of tracks, not just a few. \president Cary Sherman says. \offering 90% of the files, that makes a significant dent.\even that 10% was impossible. Users were hidden behind the long strings of numbers that represent Internet addresses. Only network administrators knew who had been assigned which Internet address, and they were reluctant to share. All that changed in February, when a federal judge ordered Verizon to turn over to RIAA the name of an alleged music pirate. That opened the floodgates. Last week the Federal District courthouse had to hire extra clerks just to deal with music-industry litigation.
\general counsel for Verizon, after receiving more than 200 requests for identities. \every ISP feels the same. Comcast, the cable-TV company that sells high-speed Internet access on the side, has announced its intention to cooperate with RIAA. So has Chicago's Loyola University. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Boston University, by contrast, have gone to court to protect students' identities. The cat-and-mouse game between computer programmers and the music industry is heating up. The next generation of file-sharing software, programmers promise, will provide anonymity that not even ISPs will be able to crack. New online services with names like Earth Station 5 and W.A.S.T.E. claim
to have done that already, but none are quite ready for prime time.
Happily, there's another alternative: paying for your music, using one of several legal downloading services. The most popular, Apple's 99￠-a-song iTunes music store. has racked up 5 million downloads in just two months and is scheduled to launch a Windows version in December. It was joined last week by buymusic.com, which offers some of the same songs for 79￠ apiece. Neither has anything like Kazaa's selection just yet—but both are guaranteed subpoena free.
16. The author introduces Bob Barnes at the beginning of the passage _______. (A) to show how careful he was when downloading music (B) to serve as the background of his life story
(C) to provide readers with an example of music pirates (D) to warn the readers not to follow suit
17. The expression \paraphrased as _______.
(A) he has won large numbers of supporters (B) he has had a lot of followers
(C) he has downloaded numerous songs (D) he has established a big company
18. Which of the following is implied in the question \have to have in that folder to catch the eye of the music police?\ (A) It is important to give a definite figure of songs for music piracy. (B) RIAA has not yet decided whether to announce the figure. (C) RIAA only plans to threaten music pirates to stop their action. (D) The figure for determining music piracy will be announced, sooner or
later.
19. Which of the following best explains the metaphor \floodgates.\
(A) More Americans are following Bob Barnes to download music. (B) More clerks are hired to deal with music industry litigation.
(C) More companies are supporting the action of RIAA to stop music piracy. (D) More names of music pirates were offered to RIAA under federal decision.
20. The decision from federal judges is not supported by _______. (A) The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B) Recording Industry Association of America (C) The cable-TV company Compacts (D) Loyola University of Chicagohttp Section2r.hjenglish.com/
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When you next buy a tub of potato salad, the container it comes in may be made from another vegetable -- corn. A new line of corn-based plastics, called polylactides or PLA, has begun to land on supermarket shelves. Its strongest selling points are that it fully degrades in 47 days, doesn't emit toxic fumes when incinerated, and requires 20 to 50 percent less fossil fuel to manufacture than regular plastics.
In May, 11 Wild Oats Markets on the West Coast became the first grocery stores in North America to switch from conventional plastics to the new corn-based product, with plans to roll them out nationally into all 90 stores later this year. As part of the roll-out, Wild Oats has installed in-store bins where
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