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[填空题]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

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Ever since they were first staged in 19th century Europe, world’s fairs have enabled people from around the globe to visit wondrous pavilions where they can discover distant lands and new technologies. The 2006 world’s fair is no exception, but it also has a decidedly new- era twist: the whole event happens in cyberspace.
A nonprofit project dreamed up by Americans Carl Malamud, a computer consultant, and Vinton Cerf, and Internet pioneer and telecommunications-company vice president, the Internet 2006 World Exposition is a digital work in progress, a multi-chambered forum that cybernauts can help build and renovate throughout the year--and perhaps long after the fair’s official close in December.
While high-tech pavilions set up by sponsoring corporations are featured prominently, as in real fairs, this virtual exposition is closer in spirit and reality to a vast bustling bazaar, a marketplace for the talents and offerings of thousands of
A. hardly positive
B. dubiously-oriented
C. quite instantaneous
D. far-reaching