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Since moving pictures were invented a century ago, a new way of distributing

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问题     Since moving pictures were invented a century ago, a new way of distributing entertainment to consumers has emerged about once every generation. Each such【46】______(innovate) has changed the industry irreversibly; each has been【47】 acco______by a period of fear mixed with exhilaration. The arrival of digital technology,【48】______translates music, pictures and text into the zeros and ones of computer language, marks one of those【49】 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【50】______pizzas to people’ s living rooms. When the entertainment companies【51】______(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【52】______than through television. The digital revolution was starting to affect the entertainment business in【53】______(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.【54】 ______nobody is sure of is how it will affect the economics of the business.
    New technologies always contain within them both【55】 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. [br]
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解析 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。
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