第三部分：阅读理解(Part B 选择匹配)
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。
…
[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：文章第一段设想了一个梦，即坐飞机时怀里放着纸一样薄的笔记本电脑，手里拿着薄薄的手机。第二段谈了这个梦的实现：在20世纪，这个既是打字机、又是印刷机，既是画笔，又是美术馆，既是工作室、又是剧院，既是邮件、又是邮差的个人电脑已经出现。然后，第三段谈互联网使个人电脑成了21世纪集生产、发布、接收、评论于一身的“文化机器”。[C]段讲：个人电脑通过网络被联在一起，形成了一个世界性的网络。这正好在第二段和第三段之间形成一个过渡，逻辑关系很明显。因此，本题的答案是 [C]。
42. 答案 D
分析：文章第四段提醒人们注意互联网和个人电脑带来的问题：“尽管有所有的理由来赞扬计算机，我们还是要多加小心。”接着开始讲上传和下传、创造和消费的关系问题，作者将此描述为它们之间的“秘密战争”。[D]段讲：联网的电脑引起了上传和下载之间、被动接受和主动创造之间的一场秘密战争，这正好解释了为何要“多加小心”。因此，本题的答案是 [D]。
……
