2011-2009专四阅读详解.docVIP

TEXT A 1 We have a crisis on our hands. You mean global warning? The world economy? No, the decline of reading. People are just not doing it anymore, especially the young. Who’s responsible? Actually, it’s more like, What is responsible? The Internet, of course, and everything that comes with it — Facebook, Twitter (微博). You can write your own list. The first paragraph the author puts forward a question and provides an answer. Internet is responsible for the decline of reading. The topic: Background knowledge：Facebook，twitter 脸谱网，推特网，类似微博 2 There’s been a warning about the imminent death of literate civilization for a long time. 91 In the 20th century, first it was the movies, then radio, then television that seemed to spell doom for the written world. None did. Reading survived; in fact it not only survived, it has flourished. The world is more literate adj. 受过教育的；精通文学的imminent danger （法）迫在眉睫的危险 imminent threat 紧迫的威胁；逼近的威胁 spell our inevitable doom引来灭顶之灾 electronic commerce 电子商务 electronic equipment 电子设备electronic product 电子产品；电子设备制造业 electronic industry 电子工业 e-book reader电子阅读器 Almost every other e-reader supports this open standard, but Amazon has balked, preferring to push its own format - which, of course, no other e-book reader can utilize. 几乎所有其它的电子阅读器都支持这种开放的标准，但是亚马逊却将其拒之门外，因为亚马逊更喜欢自己的格式，当然，此举是为了其他的电子阅读器不能使用他自己的格式。 kindle电子书可以识别原生pdf，屏幕大小如同真实32开书籍，采用的是最新E-ink技术，保护视力，可以在阳光下阅读。其电池可在无线网络关闭下持续十天，这是笔记本无法做到的。最重要的是，它有很多专门为电子书设计的功能，朗读，查字典，在美国还可以在线购买书籍，免费查维基百科。 make way1. 让路，让开，让…过去；让位 (for)2. 取得进展，起作用：(特指风俗习惯、观点等)深入人心，为人们所接受 make do with设法应付；勉强对付make do with something将就过去凑和 “digests” of the great novels. War and Peace in a sentence? You must be joking. 83We should fear the fragmentation of reading. There is the danger that the high-speed connectivity of the Internet will reduce our attention span梩hat we will be incapable of reading acnything of length or which requires deep concentration. trivialize [trivi?laiz] vt., vi.使琐碎；使似乎不重要；轻视；使平凡 in tune with（与...）一致；（与