A. always B. barely C. demise D. emergence E. gained F. implications G. leaf H. lost I. naturally J. object K. one L. online M. rising N. single O. value M illions of people now rent their movies the Netflix way. They fill out a wish list from the 50,00 9 titles on the company's w eb site and receive the first few DVD's in the mail; when they mail each one back, the next one on the list is sent. The Netflix model has been exhaustively analyzed for its disruptive, new-economy ( 1 ) _____ . What will it mean for video stores like Blockbuster, which has, in fact, started a similar service? What will it mean for movie studios and theaters? What does it show about “ long tail ” business-- ones that combine many market into a (2) ____ large audience? But one other major implication has (3) ______ been mentioned: what this and similar Internet-based businesses mean for the United States Postal Service. Every day, some two million Netflix envelopes come and go as first-class mail. They are joined by millions of other shipments from ( 4 ) _____ pharmacies, eBay vendors, Amazon.com and other businesses that did not exist before the Internet. The ( 5 ) ______ of “ snail mail ” in the age of electronic communication has been predicted at least as often as the coming of the paperless office. But the consumption of paper keeps ( 6 )_____ . It has roughly doubled since 1980. On average, an American household receives twice as many pieces of mail a day as it did in the 1970's. The harmful side of the Internet's impact is obvious but statistically less important than many would guess. People (7) ______ write fewer letters when they can send e-mail messages. To (8) ______ through a box of old paper correspondence is to know what has been _ ___ (9) in this shift: the pretty stamps, the varying look and feel of handwritten and typed correspondence, the tangible (10) _____ that was once in the sender's hands.