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I.阅读理解
which is putting the much anticipated movie
A
Mulan on a new streaming service,Amazon
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Prime Video.But watching Mulan from your
Tube,streaming first caught on in 2005.Today
own home will cost $29.99-on top of the
nearly three quarters of American households
service's monthly fee of $6.99.
subscribe to at least one video streaming serv-
Too much streaming can have its disad-
ice.With almost 200 million subscribers world-
vantages,however.There are those who binge-
wide and a billion hours of content viewed each
watch,a term Merriam-Webster added in 2017
week,Netflix is by far the biggest paid serv-
with the definition "to watch many or all epi-
ice.No.2 is Amazon Prime Video.But for every
sodes of a TV series on end".Alejandro Fra-
Goliath,there are a hundred Davids.Many
goso from New York holds the Guinness World
smaller streaming services show nothing but
Record:94 straight hours.
sports,classic movies,or Japanese anime.
l.What do the underlined words“Goliath”and
In the early days of streaming the appeal
“David”in Paragraph 1 refer to?
was the lower cost,and it still is.The average
A.TV viewers.
streamer spends $37 a month and subscribes
B.TV programs.
to three streaming platforms,while the aver-
C.Streaming services.
age cable user pays more than $200 per
D.Streaming subscribers.
month.Still streaming has become more expen-
2.Why did most Netflix subscribers continue
sive in recent years.In 2019,Netflix raised the
their subscriptions?
price of its basic service 12.5 percent to $8.99
a month.A quarter of its subscribers,who
A.They cannot go without it.
protested price increases,said they would can-
B.They think it is good value for money.
cel their subscriptions.Few did.
C.Netflix has controlled the market.
A major reason:streaming networks have
D.They think the low cost is a thing of the
become home to many of the most popular TV
past.
series,including recent Emmy winners.They
3.What does the good news in