2012年雅思阅读考试考前冲刺试题（11）_第2页

　E.Apple can afford to embrace open competition in music players and online stores.Consumers would gravitate to the best player and the best store, and at the moment that still means Apple's.Mr Jobs is evidently unfazed by rivals to the iPod.Since only 3% of the music in a typical iTunes library is protected, most of it can already be used on other players today, he notes.(And even the protected tracks can be burned onto a CD and then re-ripped.) So Apple's dominance evidently depends far more on branding and ease of use than DRM-related “lock in”.

　　F.The music giants are trying DRM-free downloads.Lots of smaller labels already sell music that way.Having seen which way the wind is blowing, Mr Jobs now wants to be seen not as DRM's defender, but as a consumer champion who helped in its downfall.Wouldn't it lead to a surge in piracy? No, because most music is still sold unprotected on CDs, people wishing to steal music already can do so.Indeed, scrapping DRM would probably increase online-music sales by reducing confusion and incompatibility.With the leading online store, Apple would benefit most.Mr Jobs's argument, in short, is transparently self-serving.It also happens to be right.

　　Questions 1-7

　　Do the following statemets reflect the claims of the writer in Reading Passage 1?

　　Write your answer in Boxes 1-7 on your answer sheet.

　　TRUE if the statement reflets the claims of the writer

　　FALSE if the statement contradicts the claims of the writer

　　NOT GIVEN if it is impossbile to say what the writer thinks about this

　　1.Apple enjoys a controlling position in digital music market with its iPod music-player and iTunes music-store.

　　2.DRM is a government decree issued with a purpose to protect downloaded music from theft by consumers.

　　3.Lack of standardization in DRM makes songs bought for one kind of music player may not function on another.

　　4.Apple has been criticized by European regulators since it has refused to grant a license FairPlay to other firms.

　　5.All music can be easily played on non-iPod music devices from Sony or Microsoft without too much fiddling.

　　6.Apple depends far more on DRM rather than branding for its dominance of the digital music devices.

　　7.If DRM was cancelled, Sony would certainly dominate the international digital music market.