00年3月高级口译(编辑修改稿)

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an be concluded from the passage that the author_______. (A) does not reveal his personal view towards the use of renewable energy (B) makes a systematic parison between nonrenewable energy and renewable energy (C) displays an objective view towards the application of renewable energy (D) does not side with the environmentalists 5. It can be inferred from the passage that more people will ______. (A) use both nonrenewable and renewable energy (B) stick to the use of local utility (C) not be used to renewable energy (D) use renewable energy only Questions 6～ 10 You saw the stories of the embarrassment at Encyclopedia Britannica last week as the pany39。 s highly advertised free Web site was jammed into nonfunctioning. The stories were of some 10 million hits a day clogging the site, . britannica.。 of three separate apologies given to would be users of the free reference service。 of promises to get the thing up and running, perhaps as early as this week. More striking, though, is what the stories didn39。 t say: What an 点点英语 —— 专业致力于四六级、考研和口译口语 6 extraordinary thing it is that people around the world suddenly have access— free access— to knowledge that would have been the envy of a university professor earlier in my own lifetime. As for ordinary people, I remember how the encyclopedia salesmen would e around with their sample volumes, their memorized spiels and their offers of “ easy” terms if you39。 d only sign up for Compton39。 s or world book. Owning an encyclopedia— or “ a set of encyclopedias” , as we used to say— was a pretty big deal for families of modest means, an unaffordable luxury for many of the folk in my hometown. And now it39。 s all free— or will be as soon as Britannica works out the bugs. The reason it39。 s free is the Britannica, whose hardcopy sales are down some 80 percent since 1990, is forced to pete with Microsofts dominant Encarta Encyclopedia. But the encyclopedia is just one small illustration of the explosion both in knowledge and in our access to it since Thomas Jefferson39。 s modest book collection formed the nucleus of the Library of Congress. Not only does my own house now contain more books than Jefferson ever owned, but my access to public libraries, bookstores and, of course, the Web, gives my family information resources beyond the imagination of worldclass scholars a short time ago. I39。 ve just had a phone call from a friend who tells me that, in preparation for an uping trip to Benin, she39。 s downloaded 75 to 100 pages of information, from a score of sites, on that West African country— information on everything from the local currency, political situation and weather to the latest local news and the street address of the American embassy. “ I39。 m starting to feel almost like I know the place, even though I39。 ve never been there,” she said. Marco Polo, eat your heart out. Nor is it just information that is so profusely available. Think of the difficulties confronting a 19thcentury music lover. He could, of course, hear local folk artists. But if he had a fondness for, say, Bach or Beethoven, he39。 d have to hire an orchestra and a place for it to perform— which means he39。 d have to be wealthy. Today, any teenager with a CD player (or even an FM radio) can hear almost any music of his of her choosing, performed by top musicians, virtually at will. The same youngster could, at a whim, look at tens of thousands of paintings from the National Gallery of Art. Think of laws forbidding anyone to teach slaves to read. Think of Hitler39。 s book burnings. Think of all the attempts over the years to enforce either orthodoxy or the status quo by putting learning offlimits, and you begin to sense the power of what is happening. The walls of caste and class have not been razed, but they are suddenly, irrevocably, more porous. And yet not pletely porous. The pertinence of the “ digital divide” is a reminder that some Americans remain cut off from the power of the knowledge revolution. We have to get serious not merely about the technology but also the psychology of bridging that divide. We have to infect our turnedoff adults and our uninspired children with the desire to know more of what is within their grasp already and the oceans more that shortly will be. If that39。 s true of endofthecentury America, it is immeasurably worse for much of the rest of the world. As . Secretary General Kofi Annan remarked in a recent speech, “ Half the world s population has never even made, or received, a telephone call.” 点点英语 —— 专业致力于四六级、考研和口译口语 7 6. The author cites the example of Encyclopedia Britannica at the beginning of the passage mainly to show that ________. (A) its Web site is the target of millions of hackers (B) the Web site can be repaired soon (C) it is one of the major signs of knowledge explosion (D) it is the symbol of the arrival of encyclopedic age 7. Which of the following best expresses the meaning of the sentence “ Marco Polo, eat your heart out.” ()? (A) Marco polo would be sad to know about the easy access to information about the world. (B) Marco polo would sincerely wele the information age. (C) Marco polo would be happy to learn to use the Web. (D) Marco polo would never believe the story from the author39。 s friend. 8. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage? (A) Both Compton39。 s and World Book are encyclopedias. (B) Encarta Encyclopedia is giving way to Encyclopedia Britannica. (C) The sales of Encyclopedia Britannica have been going down dramatically over the past decade. (D) Encyclopedia Britannica opens its Web site to attract more readers. 9. The author quotes . Secretary General s remark in the last paragraph mainly to demonstrate that _________. (A) telephone is more important to the Web than the poor (B) digital revolution will be we。