阅读理解 TEXT A We have a crisis on our hands. You mean global warming? 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. There's been a warning about the imminent death of literate civilization for a long time. 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 than ever before--there are more and more readers, and more and more books. The fact that we often get our reading material online today is not something we should worry over. The electronic and digital revolution of the last two decades has arguably shown the way forward for reading and for writing. Take the arrival of e-book readers as an example. Devices like Kindle make reading more convenient and are a lot more environmentally friendly than the traditional paper book. As technology makes new ways of writing possible, new ways of reading are possible. Interconnectivity allows for the possibility of a reading experience that was barely imaginable before. Where traditional books had to make do with photographs and illustrations, an e-book can provide readers with an unlimited number of links: to texts, pictures, and videos, in the future, the way people write novels, history, and philosophy will resemble nothing seen in the past. On the other hand, there is the danger of trivialization. One Twitter group is offering its followers single-sentence-long "digests" of the great novels. War and Peace in a sentence? You must be joking. We should fern" the fragmentation of reading. There is the danger that the high-speed connectivity of the Internet will reduce our attention span--that we will be incapable of reading anything of length or which requires deep concentration. In such a fast-changing world, in which reality seems to be remade each day, we need the ability to focus and understand what is happening to us. This has always been the function of literature and we should be careful not to let it disappear. Our society needs to be able to imagine the possibility of someone utterly in tune with modern technology but able to make sense of a dynamic, confusing world. In the 15th century, Johannes Guttenberg's invention of the printing press in Europe had a huge impact on civilization. Once upon a time the physical book was a challenging thing. We should remember this before we assume that technology is out to destroy traditional culture.

单选题 Which of the following paragraphs briefly reviews the historical challenges for reading?

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】根据题干关键词historical challenges for reading定位至第2段第1-2句。 [解析] 第2段第1句中的warming和for a long time表明本段会回顾阅读在以前的历史时期经历过的挑战。果然第2句就简要说明了曾经有来自于哪几方面的挑战，故选B。 [点睛] 段落大意题。第1段讲的是当今阅读面临衰退的危机及原因：第3段讲我们其实无需对现代科技发展过虑。第4段的中心是现代科技带给阅读的好处。所以都应排除。

单选题 The following are all cited as advantages of e-books EXCEPT

单选题 Which of the following can best describe how the author feels toward single-sentence-long novels?

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】根据题干关键词single-sentence-long novels定位至第5段。 [解析] 第5段首句和最后一句重复出现的danger以及倒数第二句中说We should fear…清楚表明了作者对一句话长度的小说的“忧虑”态度。正确答案为B。 [点睛] 观点态度题。文中没有体现作者反讽(A)、讽刺(C)的语气和态度的字眼，也没有显示出“怀疑”的口气或态度。怀疑的含义是作者对这件事究竟是好是坏的看法还不明确，这显然和原文表达的明确态度不吻合。因此排除A、C和D。

单选题 According to the passage, people need knowledge of modern technology and ______ to survive in the fast-changing society.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】 根据题干modern technology定位至第6段。 [解析] 第6段最后一句说：我们的社会要能够设想出现这样的人物的可能性：他既与现代技术完全合拍，也能理解这个时刻变化、令人迷惑的世界。本题题干说，为了在这快速变化的社会上生存，人们需要知道现代技术，还需要______。题干中的the fast-changing society是原文the dynamic，confusing world的同义表达。因此这里填能表达原文make sense of含义的词，答案是good judgement，选A。 [点睛] 细节判断题。本题容易排除B、C。B项sensitivity虽与sense同根，但其含义是“敏感度”。原文第6段首句提到the ability to focus and understand what is happening to us，“专注并理解”这两个动词并列作ability的定语。不能单独把to focus独立出来，以为答案就是D。focus仅仅是用以“理解”的条件。