2013高考英语二轮阅读理解讲与练（答案）--世界与环境.docVIP

2013高考英语二轮阅读理解讲与练（答案）--世界与环境（1） The pound new Library of Birmingham（LoB）will be the most visible sign of theway the city is accepting the digitalization（数字化）of everyday life. Set to open in 2013, the ￡188m LoB is already beginning to tale shape next to the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, with which it will share some equipment. As digital media（媒介）is important to?its idea. the project is already providing chances for some of the many small new local companies working at the new technologies. Brian Gambles, the LoB project director,anys it is about gieing people the ringht tools for learning, “The airn is to aix the physical with the digital. Providing 24-hour services which can be used throusl, niany Jilleren, ways. It is important to enable us to reach more people, more effectively.” The digital library will, he says, be as important as the physical one, allowing thedistant use of the services, making sure that it is never closed to the public. Even before the LoB is complete, the public has been able to go online to visit the Virtual（虚拟的）LoB, designed by Baden, the birmingham virtual worlds specialists. Not only have the public been able to learn about LoB, but the virtualone has also enabled those working on the LoB to understand the building and how it will work before it even opens. Two other small Birmingham-based digital companies are working on the LoB projects. Subetns, a digital design company, is developing what it calls “calargod reality” project. It is about the use of an exciting smart phone, an important part of the? which is the early stages of development? is an online library of figures of the city being built? contrat company in Cahoots, in which users with the encouraged to add to and comment on the material. Gambles says: “Technology will enable us to make the library’s? and services opento citizens as sever before.”(2011四川卷) 1.The underline part “its idea” in Paragraph 3 refers to the idea of____?. A. the equipment??????????