最新高考英语二轮复习 阅读理解统练5

最新高考英语二轮复习阅读理解统练5

阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A,B,C或D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

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

Set to open in 2013，the￡188m LoB is already beginning to take shape next to the Birmingham Repertory Theatre，with which it will share some equipment.

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(虚拟的)LoB，designed by Baden，the Birmingham virtual worlds specialists.Not only have

the public been able to learn about the 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 also working on the LoB projects.Substrat，a digital design company，is developing what it calls an example of an

“enlarged 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.And The People's Archive is an online library of historical figures of the city being built up 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 never before”

【语篇解读】本文是一则新闻报道。即将落成的Library of Birmingham(LoB)将是伯明翰市接受日常生活数字化的标志。1．The underlined 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

解析词义猜测题。第三段中的“the project”指的是文章中出现的“the LoB project”，结合画线部分的上下文语境可知此处讲的是数字媒体对这个项目很重要，所以B项正确。