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Why are publishers making their books freely available？
A．Because they want to make more money.
B．Because they do not like to lose audience.
C．Because they are competing in a match.
D．Because they try to win more freedom.
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听力原文：W: Good evening, Mr. Brown, and welcome to the program.
M: Thank you!
W: I wonder if you could tell listeners more about the work you do？
M: Certainly.
W: Mr. Brown, I gather that you work for a company developing software for reading electronic books？
M: That is so.
W: Do you think there is much future in that7
M: Well, people buy music online—so why not books？
W: You have to read electronic books on a machine, don't you？
M: That is so, although of course you might be able to print them out on a printer.
W: .So why should people read a book on an expensive machine when they can buy a cheap copy and carry it around with them and read it whenever they like？
M: That is an interesting point. People need time to become aware of the value of e-books.
W: Is it true that at the Frankfurt Book Fair, in 2000,there was a prize for the best books published in electronic form？
M: Yes, that is true: the prize was worth $ 100,000.
W: Who put up the money for the prize？
M: Err, software companies such as Microsoft and Adobe.
W: I suppose they are trying to encourage publishers to get the e-book business off the ground.
M: That's probably true.
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A．At a television studio.
B．On a radio program.
C．In a job interview.
D．In a factory.
Why are publishers making their books freely available？
A．They want to make money.
B．They don' t like to lose their audience.
C．They are competing for fun.
D．They try to win more freedom.
Why are publishers making their books freely available？
A．They want to make money.
B．They do not like to lose their audience.
C．They are competing for fun.
D．They try to win more freedom.
听力原文：W: Good evening, Mr. Brown, and welcome to the program.
M: Thank you!
W: I wonder if you could tell listeners more about the work you do？
M: Certainly.
W: Mr. Brown, I gather that you work for a company developing software for reading electronic books？
M: That is so.
W: Do you think there is much future in that？
M: Well, people buy music online, so why not books？
W: You have to read electronic books on a machine, don't you？
M: That is so, although of course you might be able to print them out on a printer.
W: So why should people read a book on an expensive machine when they can buy a cheap copy and carry it around with them and read it whenever they like？
M: That is an interesting point. People need time to become aware of the value of e-books.
W: Is it true that at the Frankfurt Book Fair, in 2000, there was a prize for the best books published in electronic form？
M: Yes, that is true, the prize was worth $100,000.
W: Who put up the money for the prize？
M: Err, software companies such as Microsoft and Adobe.
W: I suppose they are trying to encourage publishers to get the e-book business off the ground.
M: That's probably true.
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A．At a television studio.
B．On a radio program.
C．In a job interview.
D．In a factory.
Why do some publishers no longer promote their books？
A．Because the paper books are not profitable enough to sustain promotion.
B．Because Amazon"s near monopoly over the industry makes promotion unnecessary.
C．Because the public have easy access to the books" sales and reviews.
D．Because all the writers are promoting the books on their own.
Why are publishers making their books freely available？
A．They want to make money.
B．They don't like to lose their audience.
C．They are competing for tim.
D．They try to win more freedom.
Why is it not handy to study film？
A．Because screenplay is not as well written as literary works.
B．Because a film cannot be effectively represented by a printed screenplay.
C．Because a film is too complicated.
D．Because publishers prefer to publish literary works.
Why does the author say "publishers are not in business to lose money"？
A．For convincing readers that the publishing is a profitable business.
B．For persuading people to donate when they read the free content online.
C．For warning the readers that the free stuff online may not last forever.
D．For making people trust that paper publications won't be totally gone.
A、Because kids love to play different roles.
B、Because kids can learn more social skills.
C、Because kids have brilliant ideas to share.
D、Because kids can try all sorts of activities.
M: Yeah. The novelist Charles Dickens has been a best selling author for a very long time, in fact since his work appeared a hundred and fifty years ago. It' s here in this house that he completed "The Pickwick Paper". It was here, too, that he wrote "Nicholas Nickleby" and "Oliver Twist". They followed on the success of "The Pickwick Papers" and established his reputation as a leading author.
W: Dickens really was the first great popular novelist, wash' t he？
M: Exactly. He and his publishers had discovered the very useful means of writing in monthly parts so you could buy parts of novels serially, quite cheaply. Dickens' works were absolutely best-sellers and this continued throughout the thirty or forty years of his writing life.
W: Why is he still so popular, when so many writers go out of fashion？
M: I think in the end you put it down to nothing short of genius, that what he was doing was writing for a popular audience in his own time.
Which is NOT the place where they are talking？
A．London University.
B．The home of Charles Dickens.
C．London.
D．The Dickens Museum,
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