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The Question that the Bit Torrent Procedure Kindles Bram Cohen was an unusual kid. While other first-graders were outside pl

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问题                 The Question that the Bit Torrent Procedure Kindles
    Bram Cohen was an unusual kid. While other first-graders were outside playing, he was writing computer code. By junior high, he could solve Rubik’s Cube in a few minutes. A college dropout, he went on to co-found a hacker’s convention in San Francisco. " I was always really weird," he says. Yet it was only two years ago, at age 27, that he learned why. Cohen says he has trouble examining his thoughts and making eye contact but has learned to control his symptoms using behavioral psychology. Now he has a new task: warding off accusations by the Hollywood film industry that a breakthrough piece of software he wrote is threatening the movie business the way Napster menaced—and subsequently revolutionized—the music world.
    Cohen is the author of a free program called Bit Torrent, which has been downloaded more than 20 million times and underpins a new generation of file-sharing technology. BitTorrent addresses a couple of the biggest problems of file sharing—that downloading bogs down when lots of folks access a file at once, and that some people download content but refuse to share with others on the network. BitTorrent eliminates the bottleneck by having everyone share little pieces of a file at the same time—a process techies call swarming. And the program prevents leeching since folks must upload a file while they download it. All this means that the more popular the content, the more efficiently it zips through the network—bad news if you’re a movie studio trying to hinder the trading of films like The Incredibles. Says Andrew Parker of the Web-tracking firm CacheLogic, " It has turned the download world on its head."
    Hollywood has good reason to be worried. BitTorrent downloads account for one-third of Internet traffic, according to CacheLogic. So-called tracker sites post links to movies, video games and episodes of TV shows, the content of which is then traded at express speeds. With more folks logging onto the Internet via broadband connections, online trading of movies and TV shows is surging. Downloads of feature films alone are up 175% in the past year, says BigChampagne. In response, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPA[A]) recently filed dozens of civil suits against tracker sites in the U. S. and Britain, as well as criminal complaints against sites in France. The industry is hoping that in a case scheduled for next month, the U. S. Supreme Court will rule against firms that produce file-sharing software, such as Morpheus and Grokster. Neither Cohen nor BitTorrent is named in the lawsuit, although an MPAA spokesman says Cohen is under examination for continuing to develop the software "and making it easy to steal copyright material".
According to the passage, Bram Cohen______.
选项 A、is fighting with mental problems
B、dropped out because of the pressure
C、indulged himself in computer games
D、is a really smart computer eccentric
答案D
解析 推理判断题。首段前两句指出Bram Cohen was an unusual kid．While other first-graders were outside playing，he was writing computer code．第四句提到“was always really weird，”he says．首段末句提到：他编写的一个突破性的软件在威胁着电影业，就像Napster曾威胁音乐界并随后颠覆了音乐界一样。因此可以推断Bram Cohen是一个电脑怪才，故[D]为答案。首段倒数第二句提到科恩在控制思绪和与人视线接触方面有障碍，不过已经学会用行为心理学来控制症状。这里并没有说他正在同心理疾病作斗争，排除[A]；第四句提到“他从大学中途退学”，但没有提及原因，排除[B]；第二句指出：其他的一年级学生在外边玩的时候，他却在编计算机程序。这里没有说他沉迷于电脑游戏，排除[C]。
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