2019 高考英语阅读理解细节理解试题答案及解释1、A new commodity brings about a highly profitable,fast-growing industry,urging antitrust(反垄断)regulatorsto step in to check those who control its flow. A century ago ,the resource in question was oil. Now similarconcerns ares being raised by the giants(巨头)that deal in data, the oil of the digital age. The most valuable firmsare Google,Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft. All look unstoppable.Such situations have led to calls for the tech giants to be broken up. But size alone is not a crime,The giants'success has benefited consumers. Few want to live without search engines or a quick delivery, Far from chargingconsumers high prices, many of these services are free (users pay, in effect, by handing over yet more data). Andthe appearance of new-born giants suggests that newcomers can make waves, too.But there is cause for concern. The internet has made data abundant, all-present and far more valuable,changing the nature of data and competition. Google initially used the data collected from users to targetadvertising better. But recently it has discovered that data can be turned into new services: translation and visualrecognition, to be sold to other companies. Internet companies’ control of data gives them enormouspower. Sothey have a “God’s eye view” of activities in their own markets and beyond.This nature of data makes the antitrust measures of the past less useful. Breaking up firms like Google intofive small ones would not stop remaking themselves: in time, one of them would become great again. A rethink isrequired—and as a new approach starts to become apparent, two ideas stand out.The first is that antitrust authorities need to move form the industrial...
