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问题     Competitors complain that Microsoft’s recent settlement of their antitrust case with the federal government will do little to protect them or consumers from the software giant’s monopoly power. But they hold out hope that state attorney generals could make the deal more restrictive. "My guess is that all Bill Gates could do was to suppress a big grin when he held his press conference this morning," said Mitchell Kertzman, chief executive of Liberate Technologies, a rival provider of software for interactive TV. "This settlement doesn’t come close to matching the scope of the violations of antitrust law that Microsoft has been convicted of," he added. "It was an inexplicably bad deal for the government."
    Microsoft and the Justice Department presented the settlement to a federal judge Friday, saying it would end the antitrust case in a way that would help the sagging economy. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly agreed to review it and gave the 18 states involved in the case until Tuesday to decide whether to accept the plan.
    Several competitors called on the state attorney generals to insist on making changes to the settlement. Sun Microsystems general counsel, Michael Morris, said the Justice Department was "walking away from a case they had already won." Paul T. Cappuccio, the general counsel for AOL Time Warner, said the settlement "Does too little to promote competition and protect consumers, and can too easily be evaded by a determined monopolist like Microsoft."
    The state attorney generals had been pressing for stiffer penalties, but on Friday, several said progress had been made. Among the key elements of the settlement, Microsoft would have to:
    Help rivals make products compatible with the Windows operating system, which runs 91% of the world’s computers.
    Stop using exclusive deals with computer sellers to put competitors at a disadvantage.
    Let three in-house, independent experts monitor its compliance.
"We’re quite disappointed. We believe there are a lot of issues that haven’t been addressed, said Michael Mace, chief officer of handheld computer maker Palm, which makes an operating system that competes with one from Microsoft. Several tech executives said the settlement was too focused on restricting Microsoft’s Windows monopoly, and not its broader business practices and non-PC initiatives.
    "This is a reward, not a remedy. It fails to terminate the illegal monopoly and fails to unfetter the market from anticompetitive conduct," said Kelly Jo MacArthur, general counsel for RealNetworks, which makes music and video software threatened by Windows Media Player."This agreement allows a declared illegal monopolist to determine, at its sole discretion, what goes into the monopoly operating system in the future," she added.
What provision of the settlement is meant to ensure its enforcement?
选项 A、The review of a federal judge.
B、The review and approval by 18 state attorney generals.
C、The monitoring by independent experts installed at Microsoft.
D、The watchful eyes of Microsoft’s numerous competitors.
答案C
解析 属信息推断题。题目问：协议中的哪一条规定是用来确保实施该协议的?协议的主要内容在第五、六、七段：帮助对手生产与世界上91％的计算机使用的视窗操作系统兼容的产品；停止与计算机销售商达成排他性的协议，使竞争对手处于不利的地位；允许三位进驻公司的独立的专家监督协议的遵守情况。显然，最后一条是本题的答案，即选项C。选项A、B是完成协议前的监督工作，不合题意；选项D无法判断，文中没有依据。
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