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2011年全国大学生英语竞赛C类试题及参考答案

win a lottery of five million dollars.

----Well, ______. Anything can happen. A. You made it B. You're kidding C. What you say D. You can never tell

45.-----How did you find the concert in the Grand Theatre last night?

-----______ but the conductor was perfect.

A. I couldn't agree more B. I didn't think much of it C. I was crazy about it D. I really liked it

Part Three Cloze(15 marks )

I have been reading a lot on my iPad recently, and I have some (46)_____ (complain) not about the iPad itself but about the state of digital reading generally. Reading is a subtle thing, and its subtleties are artifacts of a venerable medium: words

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2011年全国大学生英语竞赛C类试题及参考答案

printed in ink on paper. Glass and pixels aren't the same.

When I read a physical book, I don't have to look anywhere else to find out how much I've read. The iPad e---reader,

iBooks tries to create the (47) illu_____ of a physical book. The pages seem to turn, and I can the edges of those that remain, but it's fake. There are always exactly six unturned pages, no matter (48)_____ I am in the book.

Also, there is a larger problem. Books in their digital format look vastly less

\You can vary their font and type size, but this only makes them (49)_____(resemble) word---processed---no matter how (50)_____(wretch) or wonderful they are---will never look as good as Robert Hass's poems in the print edition of The Apple Trees at Olema. But your poems can look almost exactly as ugly---as

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2011年全国大学生英语竞赛C类试题及参考答案

\of that collection.

All the e---book I've read have been ugly---books by Chang---rae Lee, Alvin Kernan, and Stieg Larsson---though the texts have been wonderful. I didn't grow up reading texts. I grew up reading books, and this(51)_____(differ) is important. When it comes to digital editions,

the(52)_____(assume) seems to be that all books(53)are_____(create) equal.

However, nothing could be further from the truth. In the mass migration from print to digital, we're seeing a profusion of digital books---many of them out of

copyright---that look new and even \but which may well have been supplanted by more accurate editions and better translations. We need a digital readers' guide---a place where readers can

find(54)_____ whether the book they're about to download is the best available

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2011年全国大学生英语竞赛C类试题及参考答案

edition.

(55)Fi_____, two related problems. I already have a personal library, but most of the books I've read have come

from(56)_____(lend) libraries. Barnes & Noble has released an e---reader that

allows short---term (57) _____(borrow) of some books. The entire idea behind Amazon's Kindle and Apple's iBooks assumes that you cannot read a book unless you own it first and that only you can read it unless you want to give your reading device to someone else.

This goes against the social value of reading, the collective knowledge and (58)_____(collaborate) discourse that comes from access to (59)_____or our culture in general.

Part Four Reading Comprehension (40 marks).

Section A (10 marks ).

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