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  3. As a business model, the world of publishing has always been a somewhat slee

As a business model, the world of publishing has always been a somewhat slee

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问题     As a business model, the world of publishing has always been a somewhat sleepy enclave, but now all that seems poised to change. Several companies have moved aggressively into a new business endeavor whose genesis comes from the question: Who owns the great works of literature?
    Text-on-demand is not a completely new idea, of course. In the 1990s, the Gutenberg project sought volunteers to type literary classics that had expired copyrights into word processing files so that scholars would have searchable databases for their research. Most of the works of Shakespeare, Cervantes, Proust, and Moliere were to be found free online by as early as 1995.
    However, now large-scale companies have moved into the market, with scanners and business plans, and are looking for bargain basement content. These companies are striking deals with libraries, and some publishers, to be able to provide their content, for a price, to individual buyers over the Internet.
    At stake are the rights to an estimated store of 30 million books, most of which are now out of print. Many of these books are now also in the public domain, giving any company the right to sell them online. Still, a good portion of the books a general audience want to buy is still under copyright. The urgent question:Who owns those copyrights? In the case of all too many books put out more than 20 years ago by now-defunct publishing companies, the answer is unclear—a situation the new text-on-demand companies are eager to exploit. An association of publishers has sued, claiming massive copyright infringement. The case is several years away from trial. [br] The primary purpose of the passage is to______.
选项 A、present the results of a statistical analysis and propose further study
B、explain a recent development and explore its consequence
C、identify the reasons for a trend and recommend measures to address it
D、outline several theories about a phenomenon and advocate one of them
答案 B
解析 短文的主要目的是解释最新的一种发展趋势并探讨它的后果。可采用排除法答题。作者没有进行统计分析，故应排除A。作者也许试图找到一种趋势的原因，但他并没有提出应对这种趋势的措施，故应排除C。在文中作者并没有提倡什么理论，故应排除D。
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