决胜六级--简答题目及答案（二）思维导图

WhenGutenbergprintedhisfirstbookshehadnointentionthattheyshouldbeportable.Theyweremade,afterall,tocompetewithveryweighty（andoftenchained）illuminatedmanuscripts.Theideathatyoucouldwalkaroundwithabookdidnotcomeuntill500whenAldusManutiusstumbleduponthisrevolutionaryandliberatingnotion.Thefirstpaperlightnewspaper(JohannCarolus’sTheRelationinStrasbourg）didnotfollowuntill609.Inthecomputerworldthesamerevolutionfromheavymainframetonearweightlessnessiswellunderway.

Today’sportablesseemmiraclesofdesignandpower.But,evenasfarastheyhavecome,comparethemwiththeultralight,ultracheap,ultrahighqualityinformationbearingattributesofpaper,theonlyproblemisthattheinformationonpapercannotbeupdated.Imagineapieceofelectronicpaperwhichcouldtypesetitselfbymeansofremotelyfeddata.ThekeyelementsofsuchanentityarealreadyarealityattheMassachusettsInstltuteofTechnology’s（MIT）MediaLaboratory,enablingtheprospectofportableinformationdeviceswhichareessentiallyweightlessandomnipresent.Thekeybreakthrough,whichwillstarttobeseenwidelyinl998,isanewtypeofink：electronicink.Thismagicalstuffcanbecoatedontoanysurface,but,unlikenormalink,itcanbeelectronicallyset.Itisinstantlychangeable,erasableandresettable.Theinkitself,apolymermaterial,isnotexpensiveandrequiresnoelectronicpowertomaintainitsimage.Thisspellsthebeginningoftheendofthepublishedbook.Theconventionalpublishingindustryisalreadydying.Books,magazinesandnewspapershavereachedaplateauofsalesinAmericaofabout＄100billionayear.Salesoffiatpaneldisplays,thebasisofallnotebookcomputersandthesuperthinscreenswhicharebeginningtopopulateourdesktops,aregrowingrapidlywithsalesapproaching＄30billion,butsuchscreensarestillheavy,veryexpensiveandpowerhungry.Electronicinkenablesthetwoworlds,conventionalpublishingonpaperandelectronicinformationdisplays,tobemerged.

Thisradicalchangecoincideshappilywithanother：theexponentialgrowthofourabilitytostoreinformationelectronicallyatarapidlydwindlingcost.Thearrival,thatis,ofcompactdatastorage.Considerthis.Onebookconsumesabout1Mbofdatainaconventional,uncompressedform.Butsqueezethedataintoacompactform,andadiskdrivethesizeofacreditcardholds350books.

Questions:

1.Whoisthefirstpersonnotedthatbookscouldbeprotable?

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2.Electronicpapercansolvetheproblemthat____________________________________

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3.“Prospectofportableinformationdevices”refersto__________________

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4.Whatresultsintheendingofthepublishedbook?

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5.Accordingtothe3rdPara,itisinferredthatthecoventionalpublish

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industrywilldisappear____________________________________________________________.

短文大意

文章以便携式书籍的出现为引子，指出在电脑领域，也正进行着一场从沉重的主机计算机

到几乎无重量的便携式电脑的革命。文章告诉我们，电子纸的出现，尤其是随着电子进入

应用的实际问题：电子墨水得以突破后，使传统出版业遭到危机，最终会带来出版业的变革，传统的出版物与电子信息显示合为一体。

1.【参考答案】AldusManutius

【解题技巧】正确理解句子内容是本题的惟一出路。

【详细解答】本文问的是谁最早提出书可以便携这一观念。文中第一段第三句话：Theideathatyoucouldwalkaroundwithabooknotcomeuntil1500whenAldusManutiusstumbled…notion,句中，thisrevolutionary―andliberating―noti

on,指的即是“theyshouldbeprotable”因而，AldusManutius是最早提出这一观点的人。

2.【参考答案】theinformationonpapercannotbeupdated

【解题技巧】通过比较得出结论是本题的捷径。

【详细解答】文中第二段出现了：Imagineapieceofelectronicpaperwhichcould

typesetitselfofromotelyfeddata：电子纸可通过遥控数据排版。而在这句话的前面

，是有关纸的评价：theonlyproblemisthattheinformationonpapercannotbeu

pdated.这样一比，电子纸与普通纸的区别就很明显了，而电子纸的功能恰恰是普通纸所做

不到的，答案由此而来。

3.【参考答案】electronicpaper

【解题技巧】通过上下文，找出指代的内容是本题的关键。

【详细解答】本题问的是：便携式信息装置指代什么。对于这样的问题，一定要联系上

下文，在第二段中，只要能发现apieceofelectronicpaper,suchanentity与protableimformationdevices的逻辑关系，便不难发现，这段话想说明的正是：由于麻省理工学

院的多媒体实验室将电子纸的实践问题得以解决，才使用电子纸的前景乐观，因此，答案为

electronicpaper.

4.【参考答案】thebreakthroughofelectronicink

【解题技巧】通过段与段之间承上启下的关键问题找出答案。

【详细解答】第三段的首句：Thisspellsthebeginningoftheendofthepublishedbook.本题的问话其实就是这句话的变形。由于这句话处于承上启下的位置，那么“this”所指，必然在上面一段出现。第二段中指出：Thekeybreakthrough,…isanewtypeofink.这就说明，在电子纸实践将随着电子墨水的突破而有所发展，之后，又用了相当的篇幅介绍电子墨水的特性。因此，是电子墨水的突破使电子纸获得实质的进展，而这将导致书籍出版的结束。回答本题时，仍要尽可能运用文中原有的词汇。