题目内容
2.Two new electronic book products (the SoftBook and the PocketBook) have gathered extensive press coverage,including articles in ABC News,the New York Times,San Jose Mercury News,and WIRED.An electronic book (e-book) is a book-length publication in digital form,consisting of text,images,or both,and produced on,published through,and readable on computers or other electronic devices.Different from a traditional printed book,e-books are born digital.
Being a firm believer in tablet computers for many tasks not involving heavy data entry,I applaud these new designs of the products.In particular,the SoftBook has nice leather binding (封皮),going far beyond the traditional (and boring) industrial design used for other portable computers.The PocketBook has a more traditional industrial design,typical of leading electronic gadgets (小配件).
Unfortunately,neither company mentions their product's screen resolution (分辨率).Low-resolution monitors (including all computer screens until now) have poor readability:people read about 25% slower from computer screens than from printed paper.Scientists believe that only the screen with 300dpi displays has the same reading speed as print.So unless they have much better screens,electronic books will have a problem.
A project called"the last book"is getting much attention,which aims at producing a computer in the form of a folio (对开本):a set of pages using"digital ink".Users would move forward in the information by turning pages just as they do in a printed book.Hopefully,the scientists will eventually invent a way to make the"digital ink"display characters at a high enough resolution to gain the same reading speed as print.
Even when e-books gain the same reading speed as print,they will still be a bad idea.Page turning remains a bad interface (界面),even when it can be done more conveniently than by clicking the mouse on a"next page"button.
Another problem is that most e-book publishers do not warn their customers about the real meaning of the digital rights management (DRM) tied to their products.Generally they claim that it is meant to prevent copying of the e-book.However,in many cases it is also possible that it will result in the complete denial of access by the purchaser to the e-book.The e-book is tied to a specific computer or device.In these cases,the DRM will usually let the purchaser move the book a limited number of times after which they cannot use it on any additional devices.If the purchaser upgrades or replaces their devices,they may lose access to their purchase.Some forms of the DRM depend on the existence of online services to authenticate (认证) the purchasers.When the company that provides the service goes out of business or decides to stop providing the service,the purchaser will no longer be able to access the e-book.
67.From the underlined sentence in Paragraph 3,we know that the writerB.
A.has bought the two new products before
B.likes the special designs of the new products
C.thinks it more convenient to use traditional computers
D.doesn't like the traditional design of portable computers
68.We can learn from the passage thatD.
A.born digital,e-books can only be read on computers
B."digital ink"has gained the same reading speed as print
C.now all the computers are using the screens with 300dpi displays
D.e-books may have slower reading speed compared with printed books
69.Due to the digital rights management,C.
A.the e-book should be tied to a specific device
B.people should upgrade their devices regularly
C.readers are likely to lose access to their purchase
D.only purchasers can download the book without limit
70.This passage mainly talks aboutA.
A.the disadvantages of electronic books B.the future of electronic books
C.the designs of electronic books D.two new electronic books.
分析 作者介绍了两种新的电子书产品并称赞了其设计,但电子书也有自己的缺点
解答 67-70BDCA
67:B 推断题.由第三段作者对 Softbook 和 Pocketbook 设计的称赞可知作者非常喜欢新产品的设计,故正确答案为B.
68:D 细节题.由第四段第二句"people read about 25% slower from computer screens than from printed paper."可知D项正确.
A项,由第三段第一句"Being a firm believer in tablet computers for many tasks not involving heavy data entry,I applaud these new designs of the products."可知A项错误.B项,由第五段最后一句"Hopefully,the scientists will eventually invent a way to make the"digital ink"display characters at a high enough resolution to gain the same reading speed as print."可知这项技术现在还未实现,所以B项错误.C项,文中没有相关内容,所以C项错误.故正确答案为D.
69:C 细节题.由最后一段第二、三句"Generally they claim that it is meant to prevent copying of the e-book.However,in many cases it is also possible that it will result in the complete denial of access by the purchaser to the e-book."可知正确答案为C.
70:A 主旨题.作者在文章开头介绍了两种新的电子书产品并称赞了其设计,但接下来作者主要讲的是电子书的缺点,包括分辨率低、界面设计不合理以及版权问题等,由此可推断作者写这篇文章主要是为了谈论电子书的缺点,所以A项正确.而B、C、D项均未谈及电子书的缺点,所以B、C、D项错误.故正确答案为A.
点评 做阅读理解时要快速的浏览全文,把握文章主旨大意,带着问题回到原文,寻找细节或概括相应的答案,最后要理清作者写作思路.
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