Question

The pound new Library of Birmingham（LoB）will be the most visible sign of the way the city is accepting the digitalization（數(shù)字化）of everyday life.

Set to open in 2013, the £188m LoB is already beginning to tale shape next to the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, with which it will share some equipment.[來源:Z。xx。k.Com]

As digital media（媒介）is important to its idea. the project is already providing chances for some of the many small new local companies working at the new technologies.

Brian Gambles, the LoB project director, says it is about giving people the right tools for learning,“The aim is to mix the physical with the digital. Providing 24-hour services which can be used through many different ways. It is important to enable us to reach more people, more effectively.”

The digital library will, he says, be as important as the physical one, allowing the distant use of the services, making sure that it is never closed to the public.

Even before the LoB is complete, the public has been able to go online to visit the Virtual（虛擬的）LoB, designed by Baden, the Birmingham virtual worlds specialists. Not only have the public been able to learn about LoB, but the virtual one has also enabled those working on the LoB to understand the building and how it will work before it even opens.

Two other small Birmingham-based digital companies are working on the LoB projects. Substrat, a digital design company, is developing what it calls “enlarge reality” project. It is about the use of an exciting smart phone, an important part of the LoB which is in the early stages of development is an online library of figures of the city being built by a digital content company in Cahoots, in which users will be encouraged to add to and comment on the material.

    Gambles says: “Technology will enable us to make the library’s content and services open to citizens as sever before.”

1.

The underline part “its idea” in Paragraph 3 refers to the idea of____

A. the equipment                     B.  the project

C. the digital media                   D.  the physical library

2.

While visiting the Virtual LoB, the public can_____ 

A. get a general idea of the LoB

B. meet many world-famous experts

C. learn how to put up a library building

D. understand how the specialists work on the project

3.

Which of the following is true of the LoB when it opens?

a. It offers better learning tools b. It reaches users in different ways c. It provides users with smart phone d. It allows users to enrich its material e. It gives non-stop physical and digital services

A. a, b, d           B. a, c, e            C. b, c, d             D. b, d, e

4.

This text is most probably taken from                 .

A. a put book                         B. a library guide

C. a handbook                        D. a newspaper report

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.B

2.A

3.A

4.D

【解析】

【要點綜述】本篇文章為新聞報道類文體。文章報道了Library of Birmingham（伯明翰圖書館）將會投巨資改建成一個全新的數(shù)字化圖書館的事情。

1.

詞義推斷題。通過分析單詞所在的這個句子，可知its（它的）指代的是主句中的主語“這個工程的”，its idea便是指the idea of the project。

2.

細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第6段第2句“Not only have the public been able to learn about LoB, but the virtual one has also enabled those working on the LoB to understand the building and how it will work before it even opens.”可知答案為A。B、C、D說法均有誤。

3.

細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第4段“it is about giving people the right tools for learning”， “which can be used through many different ways”及第7段“in which users will be encouraged to add to and comment on the material”可知。

4.

推理判斷題。文章首段便簡明地概括了文章主題，全文體現(xiàn)較明顯的及時性，這是新聞類文體的典型特征，據(jù)此可判斷文章應來源于一篇新聞報道。