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Remember the first Walkman? It 1 almost a quarter-century since Sony’s portable 2 players changed the way people listen to music on the go. Now 3 form ofentertainment is getting the Walkman treatment. Palm-size4video players arebeginning to change where and how people watch movies, cartoons and music videos.
The gadgets(有用的小器械), which play 5 video files on a small screen, 6generally less expensive and more 7 than portable DVD players, which have been 8for several years. None of these new-generation players, in fact, play DVD’s. 9 , usingadvances in storage and compression technology, most10 video on hard drives ormemory cards, much the way digital audio players store music files.
“It’ just what happened to music,” said Ulrich Neumann, director of the IntegratedMedia Systems Center at the University of Southern California. “We went 11 cassettetape to CD’s to MP3 on memory chips or tiny hard 12 . What is happening now is thatyou have 13 movie files going from DVD’s down to probably small micro drives.”
Yet it is unclear 14 the public will want to watch video on a screen the 15 of adollhouse window, with a resolution that is no match for even a standard TV set. After all,some hand-held organizers can show video, but that 16 has never been a particularlystrong selling 17 . Watching a movie requires more 18 than listening to music, it is19 difficult to see how the mobile video players will be used in the on-the-go way thatportable 20 players are.
1. A) was B) has been C) had been D) will be
2. A) cassette B) disk C) digital D) video
3. A) the other B) the C) that D) another
4. A) flexible B) portable C) fluid D) variable
5. A) compressed B) complex C) summarized D) shortened
6. A) are to be designed B) are designed to be
C) are being designed to D) have designed to be
7. A) complicated B) considerable C) convenient D) coordinated
8. A) available B) advisable C) applicable D) acceptable
9. A) Therefore B) In addition C) At any rate D) Instead
10. A) put B) store C) conserve D) preserve
11. A) from B) to C) by D) after
12. A) chips B) disks C) drives D) drills
13. A) specific B) digital C) abstract D) concrete
14. A) when B) how C) where D) whether
15. A) size B) shape C) form D) model
16. A) ability B) capability C) function D) capacity
17. A) point B) method C) way D) thing
18. A) time B) attention C) effort D) money
19. A) thus B) not C) yet D) too
20. A) cassette B) tape C) video D) audio
