Question

【題目】 The Digital Black Hole

Libraries around the world still hold copies of books printed hundreds of years ago. Will e-books still be read by us in hundreds of years’ time? Librarians are __________the fact that digital information and digital books are disappearing. Technology is always changing, and even now, we cannot get information typed in programs we used ten or fifteen years ago. Is digital data in danger of disappearing into a digital black hole?

Amazingly, we still have copies of the first collection of William Shakespeare’s 36 plays（威廉莎士比亞的36 部戲劇）, The First Folio. That’s not bad for a book that’s nearly 500 years old. The Folio was ________ in 1623. Around 800 copies were printed and 234 known copies still survive today.

Books are easy to store and we don’t use any special equipment to read them. But what about the documents（文件）kept on your computer now? Will people be able to read them in 800,500 or even 10 years’ time? Documents we stored on discs（ 磁盤） ten or twenty years ago can’t be ________ on our 21st century laptops. What about all your digital photograph? Every second, thousands of them are uploaded to social media. What will happen to them? Will they be lost in a few years’ time?

Music is in danger of being lost, too, we have to think of new ways to store it. We must copy this music or find the best way of storing it for future generations.

When a website closes down, all the information on it is deleted. It’s gone_______ . It was disappeared into the ‘digital black hole’ Organizations have understood this problem. In 2004, the British Library started to keep important websites for future generations, just like paper-based literature. In the event of a digital black hole, it could all disappear. The only __________ is to print it all out and keep physical copies.

With all the amazing new digital technology available to us today, we still have to rely on the centuries-old technology of printing. For now, printed copies are still the _____________way to store information.

【1】A.surprised atB.satisfied withC.responsible forD.worried about

【2】A.translatedB.publishedC.improvedD.destroyed

【3】A.wastedB.expectedC.openedD.ignored

【4】A.foreverB.insteadC.nowadaysD.again

【5】A.contactB.solutionC.difficultyD.decision

【6】A.cheapestB.newestC.quickestD.safest

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】D

【2】B

【3】C

【4】A

【5】B

【6】D

【解析】

短文主要講述了數(shù)字黑洞，今天我們可以使用所有令人驚嘆的新數(shù)字技術(shù)，但我們?nèi)匀槐仨氁蕾嚁?shù)百年的印刷技術(shù)來保存它們，這是最安全的方式。

【1】句意：圖書館員擔(dān)心數(shù)字信息和數(shù)字圖書正在消失。

surprised at對……感到驚訝；satisfied with滿足于；responsible for負責(zé)；worried about擔(dān)心。根據(jù)“Technology is always changing, and even now, we cannot get information typed in programs we used ten or fifteen years ago.技術(shù)總是在變化，即使是現(xiàn)在，我們也不能在十年或十五年前使用的程序中輸入信息�！笨赏浦獞�(yīng)該是擔(dān)心消失，故選D。

【2】句意：“對開本”出版于1623年。

translated 翻譯；published出版；improved 提高，改進；destroyed銷毀。根據(jù)“Around 800 copies were printed and 234 known copies still survive today. 大約印制了800冊，至今仍有234冊已知的書幸存下來�！蹦敲磻�(yīng)該是出版了，故選B。

【3】句意：我們十年或二十年前存儲在光盤上的文件不能在21世紀(jì)的筆記本電腦上打開。

wasted浪費；expected期望；opened 打開；ignored忽略。結(jié)合句意，應(yīng)該是文件能否在在電腦打開，符合句意，故選C。

【4】句意：它一去不復(fù)返了。

forever永遠；instead代替；nowadays如今；again再次。根據(jù)“When a website closes down, all the information on it is deleted.當(dāng)網(wǎng)站關(guān)閉時，其上的所有信息都會被刪除�！蹦敲纯赏浦獞�(yīng)該是永遠消失了，故選A。

【5】句意：唯一的解決辦法就是把它全部打印出來，并保留實體副本。

contact聯(lián)系；solution解決方法；difficulty困難；decision結(jié)論。根據(jù)前面提到如果發(fā)生數(shù)字黑洞，它可能會全部消失。再結(jié)合后面提到把它全部打印出來，并保留實體副本，那么應(yīng)該是解決方法，故選B。

【6】句意：目前，打印副本仍然是存儲信息最安全的方式。

Cheapest最便宜的；newest最新的；quickest最快的；safest最安全的。結(jié)合短文大意可知，這里講述的是關(guān)于信息的丟失，那么這里應(yīng)該是說打印副本仍然是存儲信息最安全的方式，故選D。