Ⅳ.阅读理解

Teenagers and students have an average of more than 800 illegally copied songs each on their digital music players，as the largest academic survey of young people’s music ownership has found.

The research also showed that half of 14 to 24­year­olds were happy to share all the music on their hard drives，enabling others to copy hundreds，or thousands，of songs at one time.

Although_illegal_copying_has_become_widespread，the_scale_of_the_problem_uncovered_by_the_University_Hertfordshire_left_the_music_industry_surprised.On average every iPod or digital music player contained 842 illegally copied songs.

Illegal copying in some form or another is undertaken by 96 percent of 18 to 24­year­olds surveyed，and falls to 89 percent of those aged 14～17.Nearly two­thirds copy CDs from friends，and similar proportion shares songs by e­mail and copy all the music held on another person’s hard drive，acquiring up to 10,000 songs in one go.

British Music Rights argues that the solution partly lies in developing new legal services that make breaking copyright unappealing(无吸引力的).

Mr.Sharkey，chief executive of British Music Rights，said，“The positive message is that 80 percent of downloaders said they would pay for a legal subscription­based(签署协议的)service，and that they would be willing to pay more than a few pounds month.”

British Music Rights refused to release the exact amount but it is believed to be about ￡10 a month.

The organization is trying to help to record companies persuade Internet service providers to sign up to a new type of music service，in which vast catalogues of songs are available for an add­on fee to a broadband package.Agreements with providers such as Virgin Media are expected in the next few weeks.

In France last week，Orange，France Telecom’s mobile arm，reached agreement with all four main record companies to provide downloads of more than a million songs for mobile phones and home computers for ￡9.40 a month.

【解题导语】　文章主要介绍了人们，尤其是年轻人和学生，非法复制音乐，严重破坏版权的现象以及解决这一问题的方法。

1.What is the passage main about?

A.The popularity of music among teenagers and college students.

B.A variety of good ways to get music from friends.

C.A practical suggestion to deal with illegal copying.

D.The problems resulting from illegal copied music and possible suggestions.

解析：选D。主旨大意题。通读全文可知本文主要介绍了非法复制音乐的普遍现象以及解决这一问题的方法。A项超出了本文的主旨范围。B项和C项都只涉及了文章某一方面的内容，太片面。

2.It can be learned from the passage that the research shows ________.

A.illegally copied songs are teenagers’ favorite music

B.teenagers often get music from others without paying

C.teenagers like to exchange their digital music players

D.compared with those aged 14～17,18 to 24­year­olds are more selfless

解析：选B。细节考查题。由文章第一段可知调查发现“teenagers and students”从网上把音乐下载到音乐播放器上后通过硬盘大量免费复制音乐，故选B项。文章只提到teenagers非法复制音乐但没有说“illegally copied songs”是他们最喜欢的音乐，故A项错误;文章只提到teenagers把音乐下载到音乐播放器上但没有提到他们喜欢交换播放器，故C项错误;第四段提到18至24岁的年轻人比14至17岁年轻人分享非法复制音乐的现象更普遍，但不能据此断定他们无私，故D项错误。

3.The underlined sentence in the third paragraph implies ________.

A.illegal copying has become a serious problem beyond

expectation

B.the University of Hertfordshire uncovered illegal copying for the first time

C.the development of the music industry is worrying

D.illegal copying has gotten out of control

解析：选A。细节理解题。由第三段的“On average every iPod or digital music player contained 842 illegally copied songs.”可知非法复制音乐的现象很严重，已超出了人们的想象，故选A项。B项与原文不符;C项曲解了原文，虽然非法复制音乐的现象很严重，但文章没提到已经失控，故D项错误。

4.The suggested way to copy with illegal copying in the passage is ________.

A.to punish those who download music illegally

B.to prevent people downloading music from the Internet

C.to ask Internet music service providers to charge for downloading

D.to make laws that make breaking copyright illegal

解析：选C。细节考查题。根据倒数第二段的“The organization is trying to help the record companies persuade Internet service providers to sign up to a new type of music service，in which vast catalogues of songs are available for an add­on fee to a broadband package.”可知C项正确。A、B项在文中未提及;文中是“make breaking copyright unappealing”而不是“illegal”，D项错误。

Ⅴ.短文填词

Though great progress has been made in science these years, there are still many people in p________ conditions in  1.________

some parts of the world.They make their l________ by

2.________

collecting and selling used things. Their children cannot go to school because they have no e________ money to send 3.________

their children there. Why do you think so many

people still ________ from poverty now?

4.________

The answer lies ________ the population explosion.A

5.________

president of a________(发展中) country

once said，“It was 6.________

we who are to ________ for the poverty because

we used to 7.________

produce children without limit.”Although these few words ________(听起来) simple enough and strange，they have clearly 8.________

pointed out one of the ________(原因) of the poverty.

9.________

It’s a good lesson for us to learn in f________.

10.________

答案：1.poor　2.living　3.enough　4.suffer　5.in　6.developing　7.blame　8.sound　9.causes　10.future

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