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

　答案解析：

　　1.B。根据 since 可知这是现在完成时，因此选B。

　　2.A。大家都知道，随身听最初的形式是播放盒式磁带，从而为人们听音乐提供了一种崭新的方式，因此这里应该选A。

　　3.D。这句话的意思是“现在_______娱乐形式正在经历随身听式的改革”;从这句开始，作者叙述了视频播放器经历的变革，因此选择another较好，它意为“别的，另一个”，A项虽然也有“另一种，另一个”的意思，但它有较强的指代性，意为“非此即彼，两者之一，(两个中的)另一个”，不如another更随意。