Read the following passage about the The Frustrating State of Modern Entertainment and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to...

Read the following passage about the The Frustrating State of Modern Entertainment and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the best answer to each of the following questions from 31 to 40.

Getting concert tickets in 2025 has become a nightmare that keeps moving the goalposts for regular fans. Virtual queues force people to wait endlessly, sometimes for hours, only to discover that affordable seats have vanished into premium tiers or resale markets within seconds. [I] Presales require special codes, credit cards, or memberships, creating unnecessary barriers between audiences and artists. What should be an exciting moment—securing tickets to see your favorite performer—transforms into administrative torture filled with disappointment, financial stress, and the bitter feeling that ordinary fans no longer matter to the industry.

Television streaming platforms now prioritize quantity over quality, churning out formulaic thrillers designed to hook viewers rather than tell compelling stories that resonate emotionally. Series feel more like business products than creative works. These productions stretch paper-thin plots across eight tedious episodes, constantly repeating information for distracted audiences while manufacturing artificial cliffhangers every few minutes. [II] Instead of genuine suspense, viewers encounter calculated manipulation engineered for subscriber retention metrics, not artistic merit, emotional impact, or meaningful storytelling that respects their intelligence and time.

The internet has deteriorated into a wasteland of synthetic content, where AI-generated articles flood search results and deepfake videos blur reality beyond recognition. [III] Even podcasts, once intimate audio experiences, now interrupt conversations mid-sentence with jarring advertisements that destroy the listening flow. This relentless monetization strategy reveals how platforms value profit margins above listener satisfaction, contributing to widespread digital fatigue among users who increasingly feel exploited by the very services they pay for monthly.

Industry consolidation has created entertainment monopolies that control distribution channels and creative decisions with unprecedented authority. Mergers concentrate power among fewer corporations, making content harder to locate across fragmented services that require multiple expensive subscriptions. Typography has also suffered noticeably, with all-caps titles and deliberately illegible stylization symbolizing culture's hostile attitude toward simplicity and readability. [IV] These accumulated irritations represent a broader pattern: entertainment systems increasingly treat consumers as obstacles to overcome rather than audiences to serve respectfully, transforming leisure into labor and enjoyment into exhausting work.

https://www.theguardian.com/am

Question 31: The phrase “moving the goalposts” in paragraph 1 has the closest meaning to _________.

A. opening up                                B. setting up                                C. giving away                                D. shifting around