单选题 Sometime in next century, the familiar early-morning newspaper on the front door will disappear. And instead of reading your newspaper, it will read to you. You'll get up and turn on the computer newspaper just like switching on the TV. An electronic voice will distribute stories about the latest events, guided by a program that selects the type of news you want. You' ll even get to choose the kind of voice you want to hear. Want more information on the brief story? A simple touch makes the entire text appear. Save it in your own personal computer file if you like. These are among the predictions from communications experts working on the newspapers of the future. Pictured as part of broader home-based media and entertainment systems, computer newspapers would unite print and broadcast reporting, offering news and analysis video images of news events.
Most of the technology is available now, but convincing more people that they don't need paper to read a newspaper is the next step. But resistance to computer newspapers may be stronger from within journalism (新闻界). Since it is such a cultural change, it may be that the present generation of jounalists and publishers will have to die off before the next generation realizes that the newspaper industry is no longer a newspaper industry. Technology is making the end of traditional newspapers unavoidable.
Despite technological advances, it could take decades to replace newsprint with computer screens. It might take 30 to 40 years to complete the changeover because people need to buy computers and because newspapers have established financial interests in the paper industry.

单选题 The best title for this passage is ______.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】本文第一段是对下个世纪计算机新闻报的想象；第二段说，技术的发展不可避免地使计算机报取代传统报纸，但必须经历一定的转变过程；最后一段说需要几十年的时间才能完成这一转变，并阐述了其原因，由此可见，B是比较适合全文的标题。A表达的是现在人们对计算机报的看法，而文章并未提到。C、D的内容也与文章意思不符。

单选题 It might take 30 to 40 years for computer newspapers to replace traditional newspapers, because ______.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】文章第二段第一、二句说：“…但要想让人们相信他们不再需要借助于纸张来读报是下一步。然而，计算机报更大的阻力来自于新闻界内部”，因此C为正确。A与文章意思不符，第二段第一句说Most of the technology is available now…；B、D的内容文章都未深谈。

单选题 Computer newspapers have many advantages, except ______.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】本题可用排除法。B的内容与文章第一段第三句相符。C的内容与第一段第四句相符。D的内容即文章第一段第八句Save it in your own personal computer file if you like.只有A与原文不符，文章最后说It might take 30 to 40 years to complete…need to buy computes and…，由此可见，计算机报首先需要人们拥有计算机，所以它不一定比普通报纸便宜。

单选题 Journalists are not eager to accept computer newspapers, because ______.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】文章第二段第三句说“由于这是一个巨大的文化转变，因此，也许只有在现今这一代记者和发行者完全消失之后，下一代人才能意识到报业不再是报纸业”。也就是说，如今的journalists很难接受计算机报这一事实，因为他们一直都在为传统报业工作。因此D为本题。同时，本题也可用排除法，A、B、C的内容文中都未提到，因此只有选D。

单选题 We can infer from the passage that ______.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】第二段最后一句说“技术将不可避免地使传统报纸消亡”。其意正是C)new technology will eventually replace old ones。A是错的，因为文章并未对技术转变做评价。B的内容也与文章意思不符，句中的all technologies显然用得不对。D与文章最后一句不符，文中说“要完成转变可能需要三、四十年的时间”，而不是another century。