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1、大学六级-1604 及答案解析(总分:667.00,做题时间:90 分钟)一、Part Writing(总题数:1,分数:106.00)1.今年来低碳生活方式受到人们的欢迎2. 低碳生活的意义3. 为此,我们可以How to live a Low-carbon Life?_(分数:106.00)_二、Part Reading Compr(总题数:1,分数:70.00)Can Tony Blair Save the World of Books?At the beginning of A Journey, Tony Blair boasts that he has “the soul of a
2、rebel“. Last week, he made good on that boast by conducting a gravity-defying act of literary presumption-pubhshing a hardback of some 720 pages, priced at 25, tricked out with index, acknowledgments and 32 pages of photographic plates.According to Cathy Rentzenbrink, manager of the Richmond Waterst
3、ones: “These sales are brilliant and really exciting. You dont often have customers almost breaking down the door to buy a book, but Blair is totally outselling Mandelson. Ive not seen anything this big since Harry Potter or Dan Brown. This looks like the Christmas book of the year.“ She adds: “Its
4、very rare for a hardback to outsell a future paperback, but this might be one of those exceptions.“ Rentzenbrink says she does not know its Amazon discount, or if theres a significant ebook and audiobook sale. What matters is that a fat hardback with a big print run is actually selling.Go into any b
5、ookshop today and you will find the unmistakable evidence of a business in the midst of a collective nervous breakdown: hardbacks discounted at 50%; heaped tables of “3 for 2“; and other hints of the death of print: andiobooks and advertisements for the Sony Reader, or the Elonex touch screen, or th
6、e Cybook Opus. This year, there are more than 20 competing e-readers.Across the Atlantic, Blairs chunky memoir (回忆录) will seem even more antique. The American reading public is adopting the ebook with the enthusiasm of a great cousumer society. Wherever you go in the US, the electronic print of the
7、hand-held screen glows like fairytale magic. Ebook sales are soaring, accompanied by terrible predictions about the future of publishing. The picture is all the more disturbing because its so hard to interpret, with competing diagnoses. Are we in intensive care or the morgue (太平间)?Since 2000, the An
8、glo-American book business has been rocked by great disturbance. Google has digitised some 10 million titles. Barnes and Noble is for sale. Borders, bankrupt in the UK, clings on in the US. Here, Waterstones parent company, HMV, wants to sell. Amazons market share continues to soar. Asda, Tesco and
9、the supermarket chains are said to be draining the life out of independent bookselling. In the US, its claimed that ebooks are now outselling many hardbacks. By the end of this year, 10.3 million Americans are expected to own e-readers, buying an estimated 100m ebooks.In the UK, electronic publishin
10、g lags behind the US, but many of the brightest publishing brains, notably Enhanced Editions, are looking hard at the potential of the book as application. Only a few people would dispute that its a matter of time before the ebook joins the iPod and the mobile phone as a vital component of the way w
11、e live. Ebooks, indeed, are already integral to the iPad and last week Amazon launched a sales campaign for its latest Kindle. Deplore this if you must, but be prepared: even the Oxford English Dictionary is now conceding that its third edition, 21 years in the making, will be published not on paper
12、 but online.The 25 hardback of Blairs A Journey will certainly become a traditional bestseller. But many nervous industry observers are watching to see how many ebooks it sells. Within the book trade itself, all the main players (agents, editors, booksellers) have converted to e-reading, and now som
13、e authors are exploring the potential of the new technology. Stephen Fry is said to be developing a revolutionary application for his forthcoming autobiography. Yet many traditional publishers privately say that printed books will continue to be manufactured, bought and cherished.The buzz surroundin
14、g last weeks Kindle launch raises the possibility that the book is about to become swallowed up by an “iPod moment“ for literature, similar to the transformation wrought on the music industry by downloading. Who knows? Heres where gazing into the crystal ball for the biggest IT revolution in 500 yea
15、rs gets really difficult.Tim Waterstone, who has had an unusual sense of what the British book buyer wants, remains sceptical. He concedes that the reference book market (dictionaries, encyclopedias) is “certain to go online“. But what about fiction? Biography? Poetry? Childrens books? “Personally,“
16、 he says, “I dont think so.“Like many great booksellers, Waterstone is a cultural conservative. As he talks, he spots a paperback classic on his 17:year-old daughters bookshelves, and launches into the old defence of ink and paper. “Thats incredible value,“ says Waterstone. “Shes a child of the digi
17、tal age and shes still buying books.“ So whats the future? A long pause. “The only honest thing to say is: I really dont know.“Another innovator, the writer Will Serf-whose Walking to Hollywood, an introduction for the movie business, has just been published-is in no doubt. “Ive unknowingly acquired
18、 a Kindle,“ says Serf, “and I find that everything I read on it, especially Stieg Larsson, becomes nonsense. Im inclined to blame the technology. With no physical similarity I think the text loses its .weight.“ Serf confesses to being unsure how much of his own backlist is available in ebook form.Se
19、lls response to the e-reader is echoed on the shop floor of Waterstones. Next to a discreet sign advertising “reading accessories“ I found Elizabeth Squires, a mother of two, hesitated to buy Blair. This would be a departure for her because she buys “20 or 30 new books a year, all paperback, all fic
20、tion“. Half of these she gets from Amazon. Audiobooks? “Strictly for the kids.“ An ebook? “No. Why should I? I havent got anything to read it on.“ Is she tempted? “Ive been thinking about buying the Kindle, but it would never replace my book collection. Book lovers will always love books. Theres som
21、ething irreplaceabie about a book. It gives you a physical, even an aesthetic, experience. For me, its an emotional thing. My books are my friends. Theres something about having a book in bed, about holding it, even smelling it, that I could never get from an e-reader. Isnt the first thing you do wh
22、en you move house, to rearrange your books?“Elsewhere, the rearrangement of the book trade continues quickly. Last weeks New York Times Book Review contained no fewer than three separate items about the death of print. But paradoxically, the age of digitisation is both a golden age of ink and a boom
23、 time for narrative, in many media, on countless “platforms“, from blogs, audiobooks to television soaps and Facebook.Bookshops are changing. The worst are becoming novelty item and greetings card booth, but the good ones are selling more books than ever, and the publishers, cursing the climate and
24、moaning as usual about the state of the harvest, show few signs of cutting back on their output. Blairs success suggests that the book-buying public may talk digital but actually buy printed books.(分数:70.00)(1).A Journey is a book _A. whose paperback outsells a hardback B. that is talking about Chri
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