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Digital television (DTV) is the transmission of television signals, including the sound channel, using digital encoding, in contrast to the earlier television technology, analog television, in which the video and audio are carried by analog signals. It is an innovative service that represents the first significant evolution in television technology since color television in the 1950s. Digital TV can transmit multiple channels in the same bandwidth occupied by a single channel of analog television. A switchover from analog to digital broadcasting began around 2006 in some countries, and many industrial countries have now completed the changeover, while other countries are in various stages of adaptation. Different digital television broadcasting standards have been adopted in different parts of the world; below are the more widely used standards:

Digital TV's roots have been tied very closely to the availability of inexpensive, high performance computers. It wasn't until the 1990s that digital TV became a real possibility.

In the mid-1980s, as Japanese consumer electronics firms forged ahead with the development of HDTV technology, and as the MUSE analog format was proposed by NHK, a Japanese company, Japanese advancements were seen as pacesetters that threatened to eclipse U.S. electronics companies. Until June 1990, the Japanese MUSE standardbased on an analog systemwas the front-runner among the more than 23 different technical concepts under consideration. Then, an American company, General Instrument, demonstrated the feasibility of a digital television signal. This breakthrough was of such significance that the FCC was persuaded to delay its decision on an ATV standard until a digitally based standard could be developed.
1. What tecjnology does DVT historically come from?
2. What does DVT mean?
3. Which nation was seen as the leaders in HDTV technology?
4. What was the older way to transmit sound and pciture?
5. What was suggested by the NHK company?
6. What previous change to TV had happened earlier in the century?
7. Which country's companies was japan's tech seen as beating?
8. When did color become available?
9. NUSE was ahead of hoiw many other versions?
10. Who showed digital was feasible?
11. where from?
12. Which agency delayed something?
13. When did the switchover start?
14. accross the whole world?
15. is switchover complete?
16. Was the FCC making a BTV syandard?
17. true or false, all countries are using the same standard

Numbered answers:
1. Digital encoding,
2. Digital television
3. Japan
4. Analog
5. MUSE analog format.
6. Color television
7. U.S. electronics companies.
8. 1950s
9. 23
10. General Instrument
11. USA
12. The FCC
13. 2006
14. No.
15. Yes, in many industrial countries.
16. No.
17. False.

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Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, is a large, mainly Gothic abbey church in the City of Westminster, London, located just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is one of the most notable religious buildings in the United Kingdom and has been the traditional place of coronation and burial site for English and, later, British monarchs. Between 1540 and 1556 the abbey had the status of a cathedral. Since 1560, however, the building is no longer an abbey nor a cathedral, having instead the status of a Church of England "Royal Peculiar"a church responsible directly to the sovereign. The building itself is the original abbey church.

According to a tradition first reported by Sulcard in about 1080, a church was founded at the site (then known as Thorn Ey (Thorn Island)) in the 7th century, at the time of Mellitus, a Bishop of London. Construction of the present church began in 1245, on the orders of King Henry III.
1. When was a church first founded on the site of Westminister Abbey?
2. What was the area called then?
3. Who what Bishop back then?
4. When did they build the current house of worship>
5. Who ordered it?
6. What was Westminister Abbey previously called?
7. What architecture style does it portray?
8. What part of London is it in?
9. What lies to its east?
10. What important ceremony is held there?
11. Is anyone buried there?
12. Who?
13. Was it ever a cathedral?
14. When?
15. Is it still an abbey?
16. What is it?
17. What does that mean?
18. When did that occur?
19. Is the original abbey church still standing?
20. Who first mentioned a church being on this spot?

Numbered answers:
1. 7th century
2. Thorn Ey
3. Mellitus
4. Construction began in 1245
5. King Henry III
6. Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster
7. Gothic
8. City of Westminster
9. Palace of Westminster.
10. coronation
11. Yes
12. English and British monarchs
13. Yes
14. Between 1540 and 1556
15. No
16. Church of England "Royal Peculiar"
17. a church responsible directly to the sovereign
18. 1560
19. Yes
20. Sulcard

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CHAPTER IV--CYCLES

"What flowers grow in my field wherewith to dress thee." - E. BARRETT BROWNING.

Mrs. Best departed early the next morning. It was probably a parting for life between the two old friends; and Magdalen keenly felt the severance from the one person whom she had always known, and on whose sympathy she could rely. Their conversations had been very precious to her, and she felt desolate without the entire companionship. Yet, on the other hand, she felt as if she could have begun better with her sisters if Sophy Best had not come with them, to hand them over, as it were, when she wanted to start on the same level with them, and be more like their contemporary than their authority.

They all stood on the terrace, watching the fly go down the hill, and she turned to them and said -

"We will all settle ourselves this morning, and you will see how the land lies, so that to-morrow we can arrange our day and see what work to do. Thekla, when you have had a run round the garden, you might bring your books to the dining-room and let me see how far you have gone."

"Oh, sister, it is holidays!"

"Well, my dear, you have had a week, and your holiday time cannot last for ever. Looking at your books cannot spoil it."

"Yes, it will; they are so nasty."

"Perhaps you will not always think so; but now you had better put on your hat and your thick boots, for the grass is still very wet, and explore the country. The same advice to you," she added, turning to the others; "it is warm here, but the dew lies long on the slopes."
1. Did Mrs. Best expect to see her friend again?
2. How did she feel without her friendship?
3. True or False: Mrs. Best wished to be seen as her sisters' equal.
4. What does she tell Thekla to do?
5. After she has done what?
6. What does she want to see?
7. True or False: Thekla does not like reading her books.
8. What does she call them?
9. How long a break has she had from reading them?
10. Is it cold outside?
11. What lingers on the hills?
12. What does Mrs. Best tell the sisters to wear?
13. What area will they investigate outside?
14. Where were they are standing?
15. Were they all observing something?
16. What?
17. Who brought the sisters?
Numbered answers:
1. no
2. desolate
3. true
4. bring her books to the dining-room
5. had a run round the garden
6. how far she has gone
7. true
8. nasty
9. a week
10. no
11. dew
12. a hat and thick boots
13. the country
14. unknown
15. yes
16. the fly going down the hill
17. Sophy Best