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11 Read the text below and decide which word А, В, С or D best fits each
space.
HOME AS MUSEUM
Everybody likes the idea that they might be able to make a bit of cash from (1)
_____, but few have done so quite as spectacularly as Bill Gates. With wealth and
maturity, Mr. Gates has (2) ______ a new interest in culture – and another
company to go with it. Continuum, he hopes will use new (3) _____ to marry
moving images with text, and art with history, to
create an entirely new millennium. Mr. Gates is
building a mansion on the shores of lake
Washington. Instead of the usual tycoon’s
collection of a few old masters, he decided to
decorate his walls with several museums’ worth of
paintings. To do this his plan was to hang not the
pictures themselves, but high-definition (4) _____
which could display whatever images suit his mood. Digital pictures can be (5)
_____ in all sorts of ways that paper and canvas cannot. One of the things that
disturbed the curators of the museums was the thought that (6) _____ art could so
easily be altered. Some curators went pale when they realized that future
connoisseurs might, at the (7) _____ of a mouse, change the colour of their
Monet’s to match their curtains. In theory the electronic (8) _____ which combined
art, music, photographs and historical information would enable anyone to create
his own exhibition-cum-book containing materials spanning all of these disciplines
– a task which now (9) ______ considerable effort by trained researches rushing
between several libraries. The essential challenge of creating this new synthesis
is to devise ways of navigating the oceans of information that can be contained in
an electronic database. You must combine the flexibility and simplicity needed by
the causal (10) ______ with the power and precision to find answers to specific
questions.
1 A a hobby B a profession C an occupation D experiments
2 A established B developed C created D offered
3 A developments B achievements C technology D inventions
4 A video recorders B screens C video D video screens
5 A shown B manipulated C operated D moved
6 A digitized B digital C digitally D digitize
7 A press B movement C hit D click
8 A device B database C data D machine
9 A needs B requires C demands D uses
10
A broadband B bandwidth C browser D blog
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