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  3. Look at the article below about cable TV. Choose the best word to fill each gap from A, B, C or D. For each question (19-33), ma

Look at the article below about cable TV. Choose the best word to fill each gap from A, B, C or D. For each question (19-33), ma

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问题 Look at the article below about cable TV.
Choose the best word to fill each gap from A, B, C or D.
For each question (19-33), mark one letter (A, B, C or D) on your Answer Sheet.
There is an example at the beginning, (0).
                        Taiwan’s Secret Cablers
    It is (0) C the law in Taiwan to provide television direct to people’s houses by cable. However, for an outlawed industry, Taiwan’s cable television business is doing rather well. Around 500 operators offer some 50 channels to (19) ............ 2 million subscribers.
    Programmes include CNN, BBC, MTV, Hong Kong’s Star TV and Japan’s NHK as well as Taiwan’s three government-controlled networks. Legally, (20) ............, the whole industry does not exist; no cable television licenses have ever been (21) ............. That is going to (22) ............, thanks partly to pressure from America, whose chief (23) ............ were the way copyright was being broken. A cable law was finally (24) ............ in July, but it will take three years for its details to be worked (25) .............
    Meanwhile, illegal cable TV companies have been given until December 20th to register for (26) ............ licences. Failure to register will mean a fine of up to $65,000 and the loss of broadcasting (27)............. Full licensing, which is (28) ............ to cost operators $ 8 million each, and the introduction of stiff technical (29) ............, will remove the industry’s illegal companies, some of whom (30) ............out with little more than a satellite dish, a few video recorders and some videotapes, and even now (31) ............ on a few hundred subscribers, however, are (32) ............ to prefer to (33) ............ broadcasting illegally.
选项 A、endure
B、survive
C、remain
D、maintain
答案B
解析 这里的意思是靠几百订购者“维持”生计。四个选项都有“维持”的意思，但是除了B选项外，其余三个都是及物动词，不能接on。故选B。
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