Since moving pictures were invented a century ago, a new way of distributing entertainment to consumers has emerged about once every generation. Each such (1)____(innovate) has changed the industry irreversibly; each has been (2) acco____ by a period of fear mixed with exhilaration. The arrival of digital technology, (3)____ translates music, pictures and text into the zeros and ones of computer language, marks one of those (4) p____. This may sound familiar, because the digital revolution, and the explosion of choice that would go with 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 (5)____ pizzas to people's living rooms. When the entertainment companies (6)____(try) out the technology, it worked fine-but not at a price that people were prepared to pay. Those 500 channels eventually arrived but via the Internet and the PC (7)____ than through television. The digital revolution was starting to affect the entertainment business in (8)____(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. (9)____ nobody is sure of is how it will affect the economics of the business. New technologies always contain within them both (10) th____ and opportunities. They have the potential both to make the companies in the business a great deal richer, and to sweep them away. Old companies always fear new technology.
正确答案: 1.innovationinnovation改革,创新,此处指的是上文提到的a new way of distributing。 2.accompaniedaccompany by伴随,随同。obstruct阻塞,阻碍。compromise妥协signal发出信号。 3.which 从上下文可知此处是非限制性定语从句,所以填which。 4.periodsperiod时期,与前文a period of fear mixed with exhilaration照应。 5.except 从前面的everything和pizza可知填except,television不能送pizza。 6.triedtry out试验,试用。sort out挑选出。work out计算出,解决。figure out计算出。 7.ratherrather than而不是。other than除了。 8.unexpectedin unexpected ways用出人意料的方式。 9.What 根据后文可知此处缺少主语,what引导主语从句。 10.threats 句意:新技术总是同时包含着威胁和机遇。此处需用名词复数形式与后面的opportunities构成平行结构。