【2015高考复习】阅读理解 One of the founding fathers of the has predicted the end of traditional Cerf,who helped to build the while working as a researcher in America,said that the television was approaching its “iPod moment”. In the same way that people now download their favorite music onto their iPod,he said that viewers would soon be downloading most favorite programs onto puters.“85% of all videos we watch are prerecorded,so you can set your system to download them all the time,” said Mr Cerf,who is now the vice president of Google,the world’s largest search engine.“You’re still going to need live television for certain things—like news,sporting events and emergencies—but increasingly it is going to be almost like the iPod.” Although television on demand has not yet e a mainstream activity in the UK,the BBC,ITV and Channel 4 have all spent vast sums of money on technology which enables viewers to watch their favorite shows on puters. But some critics (批评人士),including some service providers,have warned that the will collapse with millions of people downloading programs at the same the next four years,it is thought that the number of videos watched over the will be four times as big as claim that the service will cause “traffic jams”,which will cost millions of pounds to get it to normal. But Mr Cerf dismissed the warnings as “scare thou
