6月大学英语四级阅读训练.docx
XX年6月大学英语四级阅读训练XX年6月大学英语四级阅读训练DIGITAL books are changing traditional publishing models everywhere. In America and Britain, the rise of electronic books is the cause. China' s revolution is different."I can' t identify any popular literary trend that didn' t originate online, “ says Jo Lusby of Penguin China. Although e-readers are still scarce, the inter has greatly affected reading habits. Chinese people increasingly read books on phones, tablets and laptops. People under 30, who are most likely to own such devices, are the most avid readers, says Eric Abrahamsen, a Beijing-based publishing consultant.originate v.发源;起源scarce adj.缺乏的，缺乏的;稀有的adv.仅仅;几乎不avid adj.渴望的；热心的consultant n.参谋；咨询者The result has been an outpouring of mass-market fiction, written (and read) on websites, not in print. Five years ago inter publishers were typically informal, backroom outfits, but Shanda, an online gaming pany, seized the mercial opportunity and now owns most of the literary sites. It sells subscriptions by the chapter or book, by the week or month. Online novels start at around five yuan ($0.80) pared with 30 yuan for an average printed volume.literary sites 文学网站subscription n.订阅；认购;捐献Some of the newly popular online genres, such as romance, exist everywhere. Others could be termed fiction with Chinese characteristics: grave-robbing stories, for example; official corruption fables involving scheming cadres; and time-travel books where 2, 000-year-old warriors pop into a contemporary Beijing disco.grave-robbing stories 盗墓scheming adj.惯耍阴谋的；诡计多端的pop into匆匆走进Some of this online material makes it into book form. Print sales, dominated by the country' s 580 state-owned publishing houses, are now worth 44 billion yuan ($7 billion). But growth has slowed from 10% a year in xx to around 5%, aording to Yang Wei of OpenBook, a marketresearch firm. Like many online start-ups, Shanda is not yet making money out of web books, although revenues are growing.The inter has also changed the way that books are promoted. China has relatively few bookshops so cultural working sites such as Douban. have proved good at targeting new readers. Few writers make much money, online or in print. The handful of stylish novelists who do have bee celebrities. Guo Jingming, a 28-year-old with six novels in xx' s top 20 list, manages a group of young writers whose magazine Top Novel sells 400,000 copies a month. Han Han, a 29-year-old novelist turned racing-car driver, has a popular blog. Mr Han rose to fame cleverly tweaking the authorities without running foul of the censors. Today' s edgy writers, such as Murong Xuecun, can steer around the censors with their online writing, then make necessary cuts in their print editions. Most authors give the censors no trouble. They know where the line is drawn.handful of 少数stylish adj.时髦的；现代风格的 run foul of与争吵；同发生冲突;与发生纠葛steer around 绕过The proliferation of television channels has created a new stable of authors, and books by television hosts populate bestseller lists. Many are self-help titles. Bai Yansong, a state television presenter, shot up the charts with uAre You Happy?” ; and the popularity of “Why is our Life so Hard?” , a book by a talk-show host, Lang Xianping, says much about people" s concerns that they are not betteroff, despite a booming economy, proliferation n.扩散；繁殖 a stable of 一大批；一大群shot up迅速成长;直线上升better off经济状况好的；富裕的booming economy繁荣的经济；经济蓬勃开展Some foreign titles win mercial suess. Stieg Larsson' s “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” trilogy has sold more than 100,000 copies in Chinese. Yet publishing is a local affair, and even translated titles may be trumped by more popular Chinese imitations. Dan Brown' s "The Da Vinci Code” , for example, has been outstripped locally by his Chinese counterpart, He Ma, whose ten-part “Tibet Code“ unearths ancient Tibetan Buddhist secrets.trilogy三部曲trump v.胜过n.王牌;法宝 outstrip v.超过;胜过；比跑得快 counterpart n.极相似的人或物;配对物 Question time:1. Why there are less bookstores in China?2. What kind of novels are most popular in China at thepresent?
