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语篇练习 Practice 1 Market Failure in the Media Sector 　 Professor of Economics and Finance at Columbia University and director of its Columbia Institute for Tele-Information When the leaders of media, telecommunications, IT and internet companies congregate, as they did recently in Davos, the talk is upbeat about new accomplishments but subdued about recent ordeals: the dotcom bubble; the telecoms crash; the music industry bust; the advertising downturn; the e-publishing revenue stagnation; the PC slowdown; the wireless saturation; the semiconductor slump; the newspaper recession; the RD retrenchment. And the question is, why do these predicaments sweep over the information sector so regularly? The prevalence of these problems points to fundamental issues beyond a specific industry or short-term period. Instead, we need to recognize that the entire information sector - from music to newspapers to telecoms to internet to semiconductors and anything in-between - has become subject to a gigantic market failure in slow motion. A market failure exists when market prices cannot reach a self-sustaining equilibrium. The market failure of the entire information sector is one of the fundamental trends of our time, with far-reaching long-term effects, and it is happening right in front of our eyes. 上述低迷状况如此普遍，说明出现了一些根本性的问题，这些问题不仅限于某个行业、也不仅是短期内存在。相反，我们需要认识到，整个信息产业，从音乐、报纸、电信、互联网、半导体到业内任何领域，都已逐渐受到一个巨大的市场缺陷的影响。当市场价格不能达到自我持续的平衡时，市场就存在某种缺陷。整个信息业的市场缺陷是我们这个时代的根本趋势之一，这种缺陷具有长期、深远的影响，而且正在我们眼前发生。 Practice 2 Women and Men Men?and?women?may?be?from?the?same?planet?after? all.?A?US?psychologist?says?there?are?not?that?many?differences?between?the?genders. Janet?Shibley-Hyde,?womens?studies?specialist from?the?University?of?Wisconsin,?says?men?and? women?are?more?similar?than?the?popular?perception.?She?highlights?studies?showing?similarities? in?personality,?communication,?and?leadership.?But?a?UK?psychologist?said?there?were?differences?which?should?be?recognized.? 男人和女人可能终究来自同