第三部分：閱讀理解(Part B 選擇匹配)
2012年全國碩士研究生入學考試英語試題分析
Part B
Directions:
In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list A-G to fit into each of the numbered blanks. There are two extra choices, which do not fit in any of the blanks. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)
Think of those fleeting moments when you look out of an aeroplane window and realise that you are flying, higher than a bird. Now think of your laptop, thinner than a brown-paper envelope, or your cellphone in the palm of your hand. Take a moment or two to wonder at those marvels. You are the lucky inheritor of a dream come true.
The second half of the 20th century saw a collection of geniuses, warriors, entrepreneurs and visionaries labour to create a fabulous machine that could function as a typewriter and printing press, studio and theatre, paintbrush and gallery, piano and radio, the mail as well as the mail carrier. 41.
The networked computer is an amazing device, the first media machine that serves as the mode of production, means of distribution, site of reception, and place of praise and critique. The computer is the 21st century’s culture machine。
But for all the reasons there are to celebrate the computer, we must also tread with caution. 42.
I call it a secret war for two reasons. First, most people do not realise that there are strong commercial agendas at work to keep them in passive consumption mode. Second, the majority of people who use networked computers to upload are not even aware of the significance of what they are doing。
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[A] Of course, it is precisely these superfluous things that define human culture and ultimately what it is to be human. Downloading and consuming culture requires great skills, but failing to move beyond downloading is to strip oneself of a defining constituent of humanity.
[B] Applications like tumblr.com, which allow users to combine pictures, words and other media in creative ways and then share them, have the potential to add stickiness by amusing, entertaining and enlightening others.
[C] Not only did they develop such a device but by the turn of the millennium they had also managed to embed it in a worldwide system accessed by billions of people every day。
[D] This is because the networked computer has sparked a secret war between downloading and uploading — between passive consumption and active creation — whose outcome will shape our collective future in ways we can only begin to imagine.
[E] The challenge the computer mounts to television thus bears little similarity to one format being replaced by another in the manner of record players being replaced by CD players。
[F] One reason for the persistence of this pyramid of production is that for the past half-century, much of the world’s media culture has been defined by a single medium — television — and television is defined by downloading.
[G] The networked computer offers the first chance in 50 years to reverse the flow, to encourage thoughtful downloading and, even more importantly, meaningful uploading.
【答案解析】
41. 答案 C
分析：文章第一段設(shè)想了一個夢，即坐飛機時懷里放著紙一樣薄的筆記本電腦，手里拿著薄薄的手機。第二段談了這個夢的實現(xiàn)：在20世紀，這個既是打字機、又是印刷機，既是畫筆，又是美術(shù)館，既是工作室、又是劇院醫(yī)學全在,線f1411.cn，既是郵件、又是郵差的個人電腦已經(jīng)出現(xiàn)。然后，第三段談互聯(lián)網(wǎng)使個人電腦成了21世紀集生產(chǎn)、發(fā)布、接收、評論于一身的“文化機器”。［C］段講：個人電腦通過網(wǎng)絡(luò)被聯(lián)在一起，形成了一個世界性的網(wǎng)絡(luò)。這正好在第二段和第三段之間形成一個過渡，邏輯關(guān)系很明顯。因此，本題的答案是 ［C］。
