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Recent media attention has focused on a possible link between cell phone use and brain

cancer. originally,because of a lawsuit that alleged such a link Network news programs ran their own tests of cell phones,reporting to the public that some cell phones exceed the maximum level of emitted radio frequency energy allowed by the US Federal Communications Commission.

In 2000.it was estimated that there were 92 million cell phone users in the United States and this number was growing by 1 million every month. More recently,the Cellar Telecommunications & Internet Association estimated that there were almost 170 million US cell phone users, and the seriousness of brain tumours, this is clearly a topic of wide concern.This report summarizes what we now know about the carcinogenicity of using cell phones.

Cell phones operate with radio frequencies.a form. of energy located on the electromagnetic spectrum between F M radio waves and the waves used in microwave ovens,radar;and satellite stations.Cell phones do not emit ionizing radiation,the type that damages DNA and is known to have the ability to cause cancer.

Cell phone technology works on a system of geographically separated zones called "cells" Each cell has its own "base station" that both receives and emits radio waves.When a call is placed from a cell phone,a signal is sent from the cell phone antenna to that cell's base station antenna.The base station responds to the cell phone signal by assigning the phone an available RF channel.When the RF channel is assigned,radio signals are simultaneously received and transmitted, allowing voice information to be carried between the cell phone and the base.The base station transfers the call to a switching centre.where the call can be transferred to a local telephone carrier or another cell phone.

6.There has existed argument about the link between cell phone and brain tumour.()

7.The rapid growing number of cell phone users has been a great concern in the US.()

8.The 3rd paragraph tries to prove that cell phones do not cause brain cancer.()

9.A switching centre is needed when we make a call through cell phone.()

10.The topic of the passage is about cell phone and cancer.()

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The Business of Media ViolenceIn 2001, people around the world spent US $14 billion going

The Business of Media Violence

In 2001, people around the world spent US $14 billion going to the movies. The U.S. domestic box office alone hit US $9 billion—a 75 per cent increase from 1991—and there are huge revenues from home video/DVD sales, rentals and spin-off merchandise. But even these profits are dwarfed by music, the largest global media sector. In 2000, sales reached US $37 billion, with music consumption high among young audiences everywhere. Video games are not far behind: global sales for 2002 were anticipated to be US $31 billion.

An Expanding Foreign Market

American media corporations earn at least half of their profits from foreign sales. And global markets are growing fast as standards of living are rising around the world. Sales of TVs, stereos, VCRs and satellite dishes are increasing, and in the last decade or two, new and expanding markets have emerged in countries that have abandoned state control of media and distribution.

Today, U.S. films are shown in more than 150 countries worldwide, and the U.S. film industry provides most of the pre-recorded videos and DVDs sold throughout the world. American television programs are broadcast in over 125 international markets, and MTV can be seen in more foreign households than American ones.

This international success has a tremendous impact not just on the recipient(愿意接受的) countries, but also on the cultural environment of the U.S. To some extent, the tail is wagging the dog: more and more, the demands and tastes of foreign markets are influencing what popular products get made in the U.S.

Action Sells: Film and Television

Nowhere is this influence more evident than in the film industry. In the U.S. and Canada, movies rated "G"(General) and "PG"(Parental Guidance) consistently brings in more revenues than R-rated films. Yet the number of G and PG films has dropped in recent years, and the number of restricted films has risen. Two-thirds of Hollywood films in 2001 were rated "R".

Film producers are unequivocal(不含糊的) about why this is so: the foreign market likes action films.

Action travels well. Action movies don't require complex plots or characters. They rely on fights, killings, special effects and explosions to hold their audiences. And, unlike comedy or drama—which depend on good stories, sharp humor, and credible characters, all of which are often culture-specific—action films require little in the way of good writing and acting. They're simple, and they're universally understood. To top it off, the largely non-verbal nature of the kind of films that journalist Sharon Waxman refers to as "short-on-dialogue, high-on-testosterone" makes their dubbing(配音)or translation relatively inexpensive.

There are, of course, exceptions to the rule. The film Titanic made almost US $2 billion in worldwide sales as of 2001—making it the biggest-grossing movie of all time. The British film The Full Monty was an international hits and My Big Fat Greek Wedding debunked all the profit formulas in 2002.

But such offbeat successes are hard to predict. A flick such as Die Hard or Terminator is much more of a sure thing. Most film budgets today average US $75-100 mil- lion, so Hollywood studios don't like to take chances.

All this means enormous pressure on the American movie industry to abandon complexity in favour of action films. The effect is a kind of "dumbing-down" of the industry in general. Foreign investors are much less likely to invest in films focusing on serious social themes or women's issues, or ones that feature minority casts. Such films, however brilliant, are not where the big money is. Worldwide appeal determines casting and script. decisions—and the overwhelming demand is for white actors and action.

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The Internet has spawned (大量输出) a sick new craze: violence porn.Daniel Pearl and Nick

The Internet has spawned (大量输出) a sick new craze: violence porn.

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Is this a website sponsored by militant Islamists? Nope. It's a site based here in the United States with the sole mission of celebrating stomach-turning violence. Under the motto "Can You Handle Life?" the site displays hundreds of images of dead, dying and mangled human beings. Some of its recent offerings were listed under titles such as "Shocking Murder Images," "Suicide by Grenade" and "People Who Drowned".

The Internet is fall of such fare. Another site boasts that it "collects images and information... to present the viewer with a truly unpleasant experience." True enough, since among the site's recent photos was one of a man being hit by a car, and another of the grotesque remains of a person killed by a shotgun blast. Then there's a "celebrity morgue" site that posts photos of famous people dead at crime scenes and on autopsy tables. There's even a website that reviews violence-filled sites, praising one for "videos of people jumping from buildings, dying by fire and explosion and guns, and otherwise suffering," and another for showing "disease, executions, murder, deformity, vivisection, accidents, genocide." You can sense the reviewer's glee when he writes, "OK, gross-out fans, strap on your seat belts!"

It's not news to anyone that the Internet is awash (泛滥的) with pornography. But videos like the Nick Berg murder are a reminder that there's something even more disturbing now spreading across the Web. Call it "violence porn" —the latest degradation of our popular culture, in which gruesome (毛骨悚然的) injuries and deaths are glorified and presented in wincing (抽搐的) detail. Such imagery leads to "an increasing desensitization (迟钝) to violence which carries over into the real world," says Dave Walsh of the National Institute on Media and the Family. More bluntly, it's like an invitation to mass psychosis.

And make no mistake, viewing true-life violence is catching on. According to the operator of one of these sites, his traffic has multiplied over the last several years from a few thousand visitors a day to more than 150,000.

With a simple click of the mouse, anyone can take a gander (一瞥) at someone else's nightmare. The site that posted the shotgun victim says that 250,000 individuals peruse their web pages each day. When one schoolteacher wrote the site to complain that students had bookmarked it on their computers, the posted reply said, "The Net is not a baby-sitter!" and blamed the problem on children "roaming the Net unsupervised."

Meanwhile, a recent University of Michigan study revealed that steady exposure as a child to violent screen images can make young adults more likely to turn to violence themselves. "I have no doubt that our culture today has a coarsening effect," says Joanne Cantor, a psychologist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

"The more you live in a world where violence and hostility are the norm, the more you adopt a hostile mental framework,"

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B.express his anger over the inhuman acts of the terrorists

C.express his condolence over the death of the two American fellow citizens

D.illustrate the rampant outpouring of unhealthy violent contents on Internet

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shot and killed 12 other students and a teacher before taking their own lives.The massacre was the largest in the history of this nation.This type of crime didn't exist 10 years ago.

Americans should stop acting surprised that these shooting happen in "nicer" neighborhoods.That's the only place they happen.None of the recent school massacres took place at an inner-city campus; they all occurred in smaller towns or suburbs.These killers haven't been from impoverished or extremely violent families.They don't appear to have been picked on(挨骂受罚) any worse than kids have been for generations.They chose alienation and destruction,and they found the tools to carry out their hate-filled plan.

Do not blame schools for these massacres.Schools simply take what they are sent.Question the killers' parents.The parents are supposed to teach their children respect and empathy for others' lives.Parents should help their offspring learn to handle taunt or conflict without resorting to violence.

All concerned adults should take a youth's threat to shoot someone as seriously as airport security guards take jokes about bombs.Students must be encouraged to tell teachers if a classmate threatens or jokes about violence.Administrators at schools around the country need to emphasize they will take such reports seriously,and that they will not identify any student who comes forward with such a report.

More gun regulations probably won't stop these shootings,but gun owners and sellers must take more responsibility for keeping weapons away from young people.Gun owners should keep their guns unloaded,locked up and hidden away.Most car owners don't leave their keys in the car even when they park in their own garage; gun owners should be at least as careful with weapons.

The federal government can't solve this problem.Schools alone can't solve it.More guns won't solve it.Americans must consciously create a culture that makes violence unacceptable.Parents need to stop allowing their children's minds to be polluted with violence.News media need to show more restraint and thought about how and what they report.

The Colorado massacre is a national tragedy.More's the pity if Americans do not stop,reflect and vow to make it the last school massacre.

1.One common feature of all the recent school massacres is that ______.

A) they have all been carefully planned by hateful youngsters

B) the killers have all failed to passed their exams

C) they all occur in places that appear to be all right

D) the killers are all from disadvantaged families

2.Children are less likely to become killers if ______.

A) their parents succeed in teaching them respect and empathy for others' lives

B) they study hard in school and get high scores

C) teachers stop telling meaningless jokes in class

D) they follow the rules set by administrators at schools around the country

3.Who does the author think should take the main responsibility for campus shootings

A) School authorities.

B) The federal government.

C) News media.

D) The killers' parents.

4.What is the most effective way to prevent school massacre from happening again

A) Reinforcing stricter laws and regulations.

B) Introducing security guards onto campus.

C) Creating a culture that makes violence unacceptable.

D) Keeping weapons away from young people.

5.From the passage we can infer that ______.

A) there were a lot of school massacres in inner-cities 10 years ago

B) many people turn a blind eye to school massacre

C) a youth's joke about violence is often ignored by other people

D) most gun owners like to leave their guns in their cars

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Can Business Be Cool?Why a growing number of firms are taking global warming seriously.Com

Can Business Be Cool?

Why a growing number of firms are taking global warming seriously.

Companies supporting environment protection

Rupert Murdoch is no green activist. But in Pebble Beach later this summer, the annual gathering of executives of Mr Murdoch's News Corporation--which last year led to a dramatic shift in the media conglomerate's attitude to the Internet--will be addressed by several leading environmentalists, including a vice-president turned climate-change movie star. Last month BSkyB, a British satellitetelevision company chaired by Mr. Murdoch and run by his son, James, declared itself "carbon-neutral", having taken various steps to cut or offset its discharges of carbon into the atmosphere.

The army of corporate greens is growing fast. Late last year HSBC became the first big bank to announce that it was carbon-neutral, joining other financial institutions, including Swiss Re, a reinsurer, and Goldman Sachs, an investment bank, in waging war on climate-warming gases (of which carbon dioxide is the main culprit). Last year General Electric (GE), an industrial powerhouse, launched its "Ecomagination" strategy, aiming to cut its output of greenhouse gases and to invest heavily in clean (i.e., carbon-free) technologies. In October Wal-Mart announced a series of environmental schemes, including doubling the fuel-efficiency of its fleet of vehicles within a decade. Tesco and Sainsbury, two Of Britain's biggest retailers, are competing fiercely to be the greenest. And on June 7th some leading British bosses lobbied Tony Blair for a more ambitious policy on climate change, even if that involves harsher regulation.

The other side

The greening of business is by no means universal, however. Money from Exxon Mobil, Ford and General Motors helped pay for television advertisements aired recently in America by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, with the daft slogan "Carbon dioxide: they call it pollution; we call it life". Besides, environmentalist critics say, some firms are engaged in superficial "greenwash to boost the image of essentially climate-hurting businesses. Take BP, the most prominent corporate advocate of action on climate change, with its "Beyond Petroleum" ad campaign, high-profile investments in green energy, and even a "carbon calculator" on its websites helps consumers measure their personal "carbon footprint", or overall emissions of carbon. Yet, critics complain, BP's recent record profits are largely thanks to sales of huge amounts of carbon-packed oil and gas.

On the other hand, some free-market thinkers see the support of firms for regulation of carbon as the latest attempt at "regulatory capture", by those who stand to profit from new rules. Max Schulz of the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, notes darkly that "Enron was into pushing the idea of climate change, because it was good for its business".

Others argue that climate change has no more place in corporate boardrooms than do discussions of other partisan political issues, such as Darfur or gay marriage. That criticism, at least, is surely wrong. Most of the corporate converts say they are acting not out of some vague sense of social responsibility, or even personal angst, but because climate change creates real business risks and opportunities—from regulatory compliance to insuring clients on flood plains. And although these concerns vary hugely from one company to the next, few firms can be sure of remaining unaffected.

The climate of opinion

The most obvious risk is of rising energy costs. Indeed, the recent high price of oil and natural gas, allied to fears over the security of energy supplies from the Middle East and Russia—neither of which have anything to de with climate change—may be the main reason why many firms have recently become interested in alternative energy sources. But at the same tim

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下列哪个项目对申请者的本科专业没有要求()

A.Warwick-MA in Global Media and Communication

B.Leicester-Global Media and Communication MA

C.Westminster-Communication MA

D.Leeds-New Media MA

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Exposure to all media is important and people sometimes tend to use more media if _
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Apart from personal preferences, what determines one’s choice of the media and medi
a content?

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