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Comedy’s legendary Monty Python members—you know, "I’m a lumberjack(伐木工)and I’m okay," the Killer Rabbit, the Dead Parrot—were t
Comedy’s legendary Monty Python members—you know, "I’m a lumberjack(伐木工)and I’m okay," the Killer Rabbit, the Dead Parrot—were t
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问题
Comedy’s legendary Monty Python members—you know, "I’m a lumberjack(伐木工)and I’m okay," the Killer Rabbit, the Dead Parrot—were tired of seeing their legendary sketches pirated and fuzzily posted on YouTube, free to whoever wanted a quick laugh. So they posted their own, higher-quality versions on YouTube—also free—but let fans know that complete DVD versions were available for purchase. Sales rose 23,000 percent. "Free worked, and worked brilliantly... People are making lots of money charging nothing. Not nothing for everything, but nothing for enough that we have essentially created a country-sized economy around the price of $0.00. " Anderson, 48, the editor of Wired magazine, discussed the allure of zero with Jesse Kornbluth.
In the 20th century, "free" meant giving away one thing to create demand for another. Get a free cell phone, for example, by buying a monthly plan. What is "free" now?
Yes, 20th-century "free" was about real objects made of atoms. Real costs were involved, so the consumer paid one way or another. In the 21st century, "free" is digital bit with marginal costs. For all practical purposes, they really are free.
In the digital economy, someone pays, but increasingly it’s not you. Google and Wikipedia, for example, don’t show up on your credit card. So how do you pay? Not with money, but with your time and attention. Some resources, of course, are scarce and getting scarcer; you pay for those. Digital goods and services, because they can be reproduced and distributed at almost no cost, are abundant.
Once you’ve given content away on the Web, can you get people to pay? Absolutely. Use "free" to get an audience, then segment your user base so you have a free version and a premium one. The Wall Street Journal created a clever hybrid—some free articles, some available only to paid subscribers.
I get the sense that—when it comes to news, anyway—we’ll soon have two classes of Internet users: 1)people who have money and will pay for quality reporting and analysis, and 2)people who are less well-off or care less about quality and will accept any information that’s free. So the elite will be better informed, and others may get trashier media.
I’m simply observing what happens in economics when marginal costs fall. In economic terms, "free" is the law of gravity. I don’t tell the apple to fall; it just falls. I don’t tell water to flow downhill; it just does. In that way, it’s simple; As costs approach zero, "free" prevails.
It can be inferred from the sentence " I don’t tell the apple to fall; it just falls. " in the last paragraph that______.
选项
A、free has been the trend
B、apple will fall when ripens
C、the fall of apple is a natural phenomenon
D、all people will have free lunch
答案
A
解析
推理题。根据题干提示定位在最后一段。由该段第二、三句以及第四句可知,作者认为,“免费”就是经济领域的重力规律,就像苹果成熟会自然下落,水会往低处流一样,故[A]“免费已成为趋势”符合题干要求,为正确答案。[B]“苹果成熟后会自然下落”和[C]“苹果下落是一种自然规律”,两个选项只停留在句子的表层含义,故排除;[D]“所有人都有免费的午餐”与原文意思不符,故排除。
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