首页
登录
职称英语
Amazon. com’s recent announcement that sales of e-books at the online megast
Amazon. com’s recent announcement that sales of e-books at the online megast
游客
2023-08-18
37
管理
问题
Amazon. com’s recent announcement that sales of e-books at the online megastore had overtaken sales of hardcover books came as no surprise. It had to happen sometime. But the news did evoke quite an interesting mental image: libraries that from now on will look smaller and less crowded.
For the moment, let’s not argue with the proposition that people will read as much as they ever have. The habits of readers may not change. But if readers aren’t changing, their environments will. Rooms that once held books will—well, whatever they hold from now on, it won’t be books. Or not as many books. Theoretically, your space will be more spare, less disordered. That’s the theory, at least.
All of this has already happened big time in the music business, where downloads have gradually but surely replaced CDs. All those CDs taking up space on the wall—gone. From now on, we’ll own what might be described as the idea of stuff, since the actual physical things—records, tapes, photographs, CDs, and now books—have been as good as vaporized, with the information contained therein stored away on a hard drive.
This, of course, is merely subordinate damage in the digital revolution, if damage it is. There’s as yet no way to tell if this transition is good, bad, both, or neither, but surely the absence of a physical library, be it musical or literary, marks a fundamental shift in the way we live and think about things. In music, for example, the rise of iTunes, YouTube, and all the other online music suppliers has quickly eroded our devotion to the long-playing album as the principal means of organizing music.
With books, the absence of packaging does nothing to the contents. I can buy a hardcover copy of "Moby-Dick" or download it onto an e-reader, and Melville is still Melville. But I grew up loving Rockwell Kent’s illustrations of that novel, and later Barry Moser’s. It’s hard to think of the book without them. I can do that, certainly, but some little thing is lost.
For years audiophiles(唱片爱好者)have tried to persuade more casual music fans that a vinyl record(黑胶唱片)played on a decent sound system sounds better than a digital recording played on the same system. Digital sound is not as warm, not as seductive to the ear. Something of the same argument might be made for books, or for the tactile(触觉)pleasure of holding and reading a well-made book. At its simplest, a book is a tool, or an information-delivery system. To conceive of a world without physical books is to conceive of a world somehow diminished. It may be more efficient—yes, you can take a "stack" of books on vacation with an e-reader. But efficiency is no substitute for pleasure. The future may be less disordered. It may also be less fun. [br] Without the physical library, our lives will _____.
选项
A、remain quite the same
B、become unpredictable
C、change dramatically
D、be greatly damaged
答案
C
解析
解题关键在于对第4段第2句的理解。该句中的a fundamental shift(根本转变)表明,实体图书馆的消失会让我们的生活发生巨大的改变。因此,本题应选C。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/2935822.html
相关试题推荐
RecentbookssuchasMalcolmGladwell’sOutliersandTalentisOverratedhav
RecentbookssuchasMalcolmGladwell’sOutliersandTalentisOverratedhav
RecentbookssuchasMalcolmGladwell’sOutliersandTalentisOverratedhav
RecentbookssuchasMalcolmGladwell’sOutliersandTalentisOverratedhav
RecentbookssuchasMalcolmGladwell’sOutliersandTalentisOverratedhav
Theneedforbirthcontrolmethodshasdevelopedfairlyrecently,withthed
Theneedforbirthcontrolmethodshasdevelopedfairlyrecently,withthed
Theneedforbirthcontrolmethodshasdevelopedfairlyrecently,withthed
Theneedforbirthcontrolmethodshasdevelopedfairlyrecently,withthed
Theneedforbirthcontrolmethodshasdevelopedfairlyrecently,withthed
随机试题
Wecannotusethebridgenow,becauseit______.A、hasbeenrepairedB、isrepair
[originaltext]M:Ididn’tseeyouincreativewritingclasstoday.Whathappene
【B1】[br]【B5】A、escortB、protectC、accompanyD、leadD语义衔接题。这句承接前面的意思,早期探测地球的时候,人
加入表面活性剂会A.减低界面张力 B.增加界面张力 C.不改变界面张力 D
小型装饰机械,主要包括()。A.蛙式打夯机 B.水泥抹光机 C.水磨石机
下列疾病,胸片可见肺血减少的是A.室间隔缺损 B.风湿性心脏病二尖瓣狭窄 C
根据监管规定,商业银行所面临的流动性风险分为()。A.投资流动性风险 B
临床出现自汗、多尿、出血、遗精等症,为气的何种功能减退A.防御作用 B.固摄作
心理治疗关系的建立原则包括A.单向性、开放性、时限性 B.系统性、单向性、时限
银行承兑汇票的承兑银行,应当按照票面金额向出票人收取()的手续费。A:千分之一
最新回复
(
0
)