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Exchanging music over the Internet is fun and easy. Better yet, it's free, which means you don't have to pay for any more expensive music CDs. Several online file-sharing services make it easy for music lovers to exchange their favorite tunes with one another.
However, this illegal sharing of music — a form of music piracy(盗版)— is doing harm to the music industry. Industry experts estimate (估计) that US$4.3 billion in worldwide sales was lost to music piracy last year. These lost profits could force record companies to stop producing the music of many popular artists. That would hurt both musicians and music fans alike.
Music producers are puzzled about how to fight music piracy. Their efforts to fight piracy using the law have had only limited success. The music industry did win a legal victory against Napster, a famous music website. The courts ordered Napster to stop giving away copyrighted music from their site. But a number of other music-sharing networks have sprung up in its place.
These new networks are made up of thousands, or even millions, of individuals. Unlike Napster, there's no one company controlling the distribution(发行)of music over each network. So it's nearly impossible to stop the illegal activities.
Now people in the music industry have decided that " if you can't beat them, join them." They've begun to offer legal alternatives to online music piracy. Major music producers have given companies like Apple Computer permission(许可) to sell their music online. Apple's iTune Music Store allows computer users to legally download any song for 99 cents.
Will these new measures save the music industry from piracy? That depends on whether music fans are willing to pay 99 cents fro a song that they can download illegally for free. Unfortunately, many people believe music should be free. The music industry, however, hopes to persuade these music fans to change their tune.
【小题1】This text is written to _____.
| A.discuss music piracy on the Internet |
| B.introduce the popularity of online music |
| C.persuade music fans to give up downloading music |
| D.protect copyrighted music from being downloaded illegally |
| A.Some online file-sharing services are responsible for music piracy. |
| B.Napster, a famous music website, broke down because of its piracy. |
| C.There have been no perfect measures to put an end to piracy. |
| D.Legal sharing of music is available at Apple's iTune Music Store. |
| A.The only effective way to fight music piracy is to stop it by law. |
| B.Music lovers will be persuaded to pay for online music in time. |
| C.It is certain that no one will be willing to pay for online music. |
| D.There is a long way for music industry to go in fighting piracy. |
| A.being protected by the law | B.popular | C.being against the law | D.surprising |
Millions of Americans return from long-distance trips by air, but their luggage doesn’t always come home with them. Airline identification tags(标签) can come loose, and the bags go who-knows-where. And passengers leave all kinds of things on planes.
The airlines collect the items and, for 90 days, attempt to find their owners. They don’t keep them, since they’re not in the warehouse business. And by law, they cannot sell the bags, because the airlines might be tempted to deliberately misplace luggage.
So once insurance companies have paid for lost bags and their contents, and they no longer belong to passengers, a unique store in the little town of Scottsboro, Alabama, buys them. The “Unclaimed Baggage Center,” is so popular that the building, which is set up like a department store, is the number-one tourist attraction in all of Alabama. More than one million visitors stop in each year and take one of the store’s shopping carts on a hunt for treasures.
Each day, clerks bring out 7,000 new items, and veteran(老练的)shoppers rush to paw over them. You can find everything from precious jewels to hockey sticks, best-selling novels, leather jackets, tape recorders, surfboards, even half -used tubes of toothpaste.
The store’s own laundry washes or cleans all the clothes found in luggage, then sells them. The Unclaimed Baggage Center has found guns, illegal drugs and even a live rattlesnake.
The store has a little museum where some of its most unusual acquisitions(获得物) have been preserved. They include highland bagpipes, a burial mask from an Egyptian pharaoh's tomb, and a medieval suit of armor.
Statistics indicate that less than one-half of one percent of luggage checked on U.S. carriers is permanently lost and available to the store.
【小题1】Paragraph1 shows that many passengers lose their luggage because______.
| A.they are forgetful |
| B.the owners of some luggage can’t be identified |
| C.they are in a hurry |
| D.there is no lost and found office in many airports |
| A.they have to find the owners |
| B.they have to keep the bags as long as possible |
| C.some bags are expensive |
| D.they are likely to make a profit on the bags on purpose |
| A.visitors may purchase something undervalued. |
| B.all thethings there are very cheap. |
| C.there's a large variety of goods. |
| D.visitors will enjoy some amusing activities there. |
| A.A little museum will keep all the precious unclaimed baggage. |
| B.The things in the Unclaimed Baggage Center are articles for daily use. |
| C.The percentage of passengers who lose their baggage for ever is small. |
| D.People are not allowed to buy the illegal things in the store. |
| A.To introduce an attractive place to tourists. |
| B.To remind passengers of taking care of their baggage. |
| C.To advise the airlines to find the owners of the unclaimed baggage. |
| D.To introduce how the unclaimed baggage in the airports is handled in America. |