Directions: Read the following passages carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words (not exceeding 10 words).
1 P) e2 S" a/ @/ H When Gutenberg printed his first books he had no intention that they should be portable. They were made, after all, to compete with very weighty (and often chained)illuminated manuscripts. The idea that you could walk around with a book did not come until l500 when Aldus Manutius stumbled upon this revolutionary and liberating notion. The first paper-light newspaper(Johann Carolus’s The Relation in Strasbourg)did not follow until l609. In the computer world the same revolution from heavy main frame to near weightlessness is well under way. ! r! p3 O$ p0 O' j5 U0 q8 c r
Today’ s portables seem miracles of design and power. But, even as far as they have come, compare them with the ultra light, ultra cheap, ultra high quality information bearing attributes of paper, the only problem is that the information on paper cannot be updated. Imagine a piece of electronic paper which could typeset itself by means of remotely fed data. The key elements of such an entity are already a reality at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s(MIT) Media Laboratory, enabling the prospect of portable information devices which are essentially weightless and omnipresent. The key breakthrough, which will start to be seen widely in l998, is a new type of ink： electronic ink. This magical stuff can be coated on to any surface, but, unlike normal ink, it can be electronically set. It is instantly changeable, erasable and resettable. The ink itself, a polymer material, is not expensive and requires no electronic power to maintain its image. * P0 M9 Z/ {* T2 x7 ~3 q: {
This spells the beginning of the end of the published book. The conventional publishing industry is already dying. Books, magazines and newspapers have reached a plateau of sales in America of about$100 billion a year. Sales of fiat panel displays, the basis of all notebook computers and the super thin screens which are beginning to populate our desktops, are growing rapidly with sales approaching $30 billion, but such screens are still heavy, very expensive and power hungry. Electronic ink enables the two worlds, conventional publishing on paper and electronic information displays, to be merged.
9 M5 @: j* I# {: W' t This radical change coincides happily with another： the exponential growth of our ability to store information electronically at a rapidly dwindling cost. The arrival, that is, of compact data storage. Consider this. One book consumes about 1 Mb of data in a conventional, uncompressed form. But squeeze the data into a compact form, and a disk drive the size of a credit card holds 350 books.
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1. Who is the first person noted that books could be portable?________________________.6 W' y4 M% E& n; ^
2. Electronic paper can solve the problem that____________________________________.6 ]: n3 {0 _, j' _9 E7 S
3. “Prospect of portable information devices” refers to* ^* e, O! L0 k/ r
4. What results in the ending of the published book?_______________________________.) I, H( B! N J& n
5. According to the 3rd Para, it is inferred that the conventional publishing industry will disappear_____________________________________________________________________.
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文章以便携式书籍的出现为引子，指出在电脑领域，也正进行着一场从沉重的主机计算机到几乎无重量的便携式电脑的革命。文章告诉我们，电子纸的出现，尤其是随着电子进入% B. \6 J/ a1 ?$ B
应用的实际问题：电子墨水得以突破后，使传统出版业遭到危机，最终会带来出版业的变革，传统的出版物与电子信息显示合为一体。 |
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