Directions: Read the following passages carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words (not exceeding 10 words).

　　When Gutenberg printed his first books he had no intention that they should be portable. They were made, after all, to compete with very weighty (and often chained)illuminated manuscripts. The idea that you could walk around with a book did not come until l500 when Aldus Manutius stumbled upon this revolutionary and liberating notion. The first paper-light newspaper(Johann Carolus’s The Relation in Strasbourg)did not follow until l609. In the computer world the same revolution from heavy main frame to near weightlessness is well under way. ��

　　Today’ s portables seem miracles of design and power. But, even as far as they have come, compare them with the ultra light, ultra cheap, ultra high quality information bearing attributes of paper, the only problem is that the information on paper cannot be updated. Imagine a piece of electronic paper which could typeset itself by means of remotely fed data. The key elements of such an entity are already a reality at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s(MIT) Media Laboratory, enabling the prospect of portable information devices which are essentially weightless and omnipresent. The key breakthrough, which will start to be seen widely in l998, is a new type of ink： electronic ink. This magical stuff can be coated on to any surface, but, unlike normal ink, it can be electronically set. It is instantly changeable, erasable and resettable. The ink itself, a polymer material, is not expensive and requires no electronic power to maintain its image. ��

　　This spells the beginning of the end of the published book. The conventional publishing industry is already dying. Books, magazines and newspapers have reached a plateau of sales in America of about$100 billion a year. Sales of fiat panel displays, the basis of all notebook computers and the super thin screens which are beginning to populate our desktops, are growing rapidly with sales approaching $30 billion, but such screens are still heavy, very expensive and power hungry. Electronic ink enables the two worlds, conventional publishing on paper and electronic information displays, to be merged. ��

　　This radical change coincides happily with another： the exponential growth of our ability to store information electronically at a rapidly dwindling cost. The arrival, that is, of compact data storage. Consider this. One book consumes about 1 Mb of data in a conventional, uncompressed form. But squeeze the data into a compact form, and a disk drive the size of a credit card holds 350 books.��

　　Questions:

　　1. Who is the first person noted that books could be portable?________________________.

　　2. Electronic paper can solve the problem that____________________________________.

　　3. “Prospect of portable information devices” refers to

　　4. What results in the ending of the published book?_______________________________.

　　5. According to the 3rd Para, it is inferred that the conventional publishing industry will disappear_____________________________________________________________________.

　　短文大意

　　文章以便攜式書籍的出現為引子，指出在電腦領域，也正進行著一場從沉重的主機計算機到幾乎無重量的便攜式電腦的革命。文章告訴我們，電子紙的出現，尤其是隨著電子進入

　　應用的實際問題：電子墨水得以突破后，使傳統出版業遭到危機，最終會帶來出版業的變革，傳統的出版物與電子信息顯示合為一體。

　　1.

　　【參考答案】Aldus Manutius

　　【解題技巧】 正確理解句子內容是本題的惟一出路。

　　【詳細解答】 本文問的是誰最早提出書可以便攜這一觀念。文中第一段第三句話：The idea that you could walk around with a book not come until 1500 when Aldus Manutius stumbled…notion,句中，this revolutionary—and liberating—notion,指的即是“they should be portable”因而，Aldus Manutius是最早提出這一觀點的人。

　　2.

　　【參考答案】the information on paper cannot be updated

　　【解題技巧】 通過比較得出結論是本題的捷徑。

　　【詳細解答】文中第二段出現了：Imagine a piece of electronic paper which could typeset itself of remotely fed data：電子紙可通過遙控數據排版。而在這句話的前面，是有關紙的評價：the only problem is that the information on paper cannot be updated.這樣一比，電子紙與普通紙的區別就很明顯了，而電子紙的功能恰恰是普通紙所做不到的，答案由此而來。

　　3.

　　【參考答案】electronic paper

　　【解題技巧】 通過上下文，找出指代的內容是本題的關鍵。

　　【詳細解答】本題問的是：便攜式信息裝置指代什么。對于這樣的問題，一定要聯系上下文，在第二段中，只要能發現 a piece of electronic paper, such an entity與portable information devices 的邏輯關系，便不難發現，這段話想說明的正是：由于麻省理工學院的多媒體實驗室將電子紙的實踐問題得以解決，才使用電子紙的前景樂觀，因此，答案為electronic paper.

　　4.

　　【參考答案】the breakthrough of electronic ink

　　【解題技巧】 通過段與段之間承上啟下的關鍵問題找出答案。

　　【詳細解答】 第三段的首句：This spells the beginning of the end of the published book.本題的問話其實就是這句話的變形。由于這句話處于承上啟下的位置，那么“this”所指，必然在上面一段出現。第二段中指出：The key breakthrough,…is a new type of ink.這就說明，在電子紙實踐將隨著電子墨水的突破而有所發展，之后，又用了相當的篇幅介紹電子墨水的特性。因此，是電子墨水的突破使電子紙獲得實質的進展，而這將導致書籍出版的結束。回答本題時，仍要盡可能運用文中原有的詞匯。

　　5.

　　【參考答案】conventional publishing on paper and electronic informationdisplays are merged

　　【解題技巧】 運用段落中已知的信息去推測。

　　【詳細解答】這是一個典型的推理型的問題。這種問題往往涉及幾句話甚至整段話的內容。第三段一開始指出：傳統出版業正在走向滅亡，雖然平板顯示器的銷售突飛猛進，然而，它的本身也存在著明顯的缺限。而電子墨水的出現，可以使這兩件各有所長的東西構成合理的結合成為可能。根據這段話，我們可得知：傳統出版物若消失，必然在兩者結合之時。回答這個問題時，也應盡量使用句子的原話：conventional publishing on paper and electronic information displays, to be merged.而稍作變形。

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