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Exercise 32:Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.

The Internet is very much like television, in which it takes time away from other pursuits, provides entertainment and information, but in no way can compare with the warm, personal experience of reading a good book. This is not the only reason why the Internet will never replace books, for books provide the in-depth knowledge of a subject that sitting in front of a computer monitor cannot provide. We can download text from an Internet source, but the aesthetic quality of sheets of downloaded text leave much to be desired. A well-designed book enhances the reading experience.

The book is still the most compact and inexpensive means of conveying a dense amount of knowledge in a convenient package. The easy portability of the book is what makes it the most user-friendly format for knowledge ever invented. The idea that one can carry in one's pocket a play by Shakespeare, a novel by Charles Dickens or Tom Clancy, Plato's Dialogues, or the Bible in a small paperback edition is mind-boggling. We take such uncommon convenience for granted, not realizing that the book itself has undergone quite an evolution since the production of the Gutenberg Bible in 1455 and Shakespeare's First Folio in 1623, just three years after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth to colonize the New World.

Not only has the art and craft of printing and book manufacturing been greatly improved over the centuries, but the great variety of subject matter now available in books is astounding, to say the least. In fact, the Internet requires the constant input of authors and their books to provide it with the information that makes it a useful tool for exploration and learning.

Another important reason why the Internet will never replace books is because those who wish to become writers want to see their works permanently published as books - something you can hold, see, feel, skim through, and read at one's leisure without the need for an electric current apart from a lamp. The writer may use a word processor instead of a typewriter or a pen and pad, but the finished product must eventually end up as a book if it is to have value to the reading public. The writer may use the Internet in the course of researching a subject just as he may use a library for that purpose, but the end product will still be a book.

Question 234: What is the author's main idea in the passage?

  1. The Internet distracts people from other pursuits.
  2. Books have been improved in both appearance and content.
  3. The Internet and books will replace each other.
  4. Books will not be replaced by the Internet.

Queston 235: What does the word "this" in the first paragraph refer to?

  1. a good book
  2. the Internet
  3. the warm, personal experience of reading a good book
  4. entertainment and information

Queston 236: The word “aesthete” is closest in meaning to ______

A. artistic                    B. usual                                    C. print                                   D. invisible

Question237: Which of the following is mentioned as the advantage of books in paragraph 2?

A. expensive, moderate and portable B. compact, cheap and convenient C. luxurious, enormous and flexible

D. uncommon, inexpensive and knowledgeable

Question 238: The word "astounding" in paragraph 3 could be best replaced by_____ _.

A. astonishing             B. unsurprising              C. astringent                           D. accelerating

Question 239: The author mentioned the Internet in the last paragraph as a tool that

  1. will replace books if the writers don't want to publish their works.
  2. requires more equipment to use than books.
  3. provides the writers information about the subject they are finding for their books.
  4. cannot be held, seen or felt in our hands.

Question 240: According to the passage, which sentence is NOT true about books?

  1. Whenever books are still useful for our society, they cannot be replaced.
  2. A well-designed book is more effective for reading than a download text.
  3. There has been no book evolution because of its uncommon convenience.
  4. Over many centuries, the appearance of books has been upgraded.

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