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1、精品资料-年英语专业四级阅读理解passage-1(翻译).2011 年英语专业四级阅读理解（翻译）Passage 1（翻译）We have a crisis on our hands. You mean global warming? The world economy? No, the decline of reading. People are just not doing it anymore, especially the young. Whos responsible? Actually, its more like, what is responsible? The Intern

2、et, of course, and everything that comes with it Facebook, Twitter. You can write your own list.Theres been a warning about the imminent death of literate civilization for a long time. In the 20th century, first it was the movies, then radio, then television that seemed to spell doom for the written

3、 world. None did. Reading survived; in fact it not only survived, it has flourished. The world is more literate than ever before there are more and more readers, and more and more books.The fact that we often get our reading material online today is not something we should worry over. The electronic

4、 and digital revolution of the last two decades has arguably shown the way forward for reading and for writing. Take the arrival of e-book readers as an example. Devices like Kindle make reading more convenient and are a lot more environmentally friendly than the traditional paper book.As technology

5、 makes new ways of writing possible, new ways of reading are possible. Interconnectivity allows for the possibility of a reading experience that was barely imaginable before. Where traditional books had to make do with photographs and illustrations, an e-book can provide readers with an unlimited nu

6、mber of links: to texts, pictures, and videos. In the future, the way people write novels, history, and philosophy will resemble nothing seen in the past.On the other hand, there is the danger of trivialization. One Twitter group is offering its followers single-sentence-long “digests” of the great

7、novels. War and Peace in a sentence? You must be joking. We should fear the fragmentation of reading. There is the danger that the high-speed connectivity of the Internet will reduce our attention spanthat we will be incapable of reading anything of length or which requires deep concentration.In suc

8、h a fast-changing world, in which reality seems to be remade each day, we need the ability to focus and understand what is happening to us. This has always been the function of literature and we should be careful not to let it disappear. Our society needs to be able to imagine the possibility of som

9、eone utterly in tune with modern technology but able to make sense of a dynamic, confusing world.In the 15th century, Johannes Guttenbergs invention of the printing press in Europe had a huge impact on civilization. Once upon a time the physical book was a challenging thing. We should remember this

10、before we assume that technology is out to destroy traditional culture.我们面临着一场危机。你是说全球变暖?世界经济?不，是阅读的减少。人们不再这样做了，尤其是年轻人。谁该对此负责呢?实际上，这个问题更像是，什么是责任?当然是互联网，以及随之而来的一切脸书、推特。你可以写自己的清单。很长一段时间以来，都有关于读写文明即将消亡的警告。在20世纪，首先是电影，然后是广播，然后是电视似乎预示了书面世界的末日。没有做的。阅读幸存了下来;事实上，它不仅存活了下来，而且蓬勃发展。世界比以往任何时候都更有文化有越来越多的读者，越来越多的书

11、。今天我们经常在网上得到我们的阅读材料，这并不是我们应该担心的事情。过去20年的电子和数字革命无疑为阅读和写作指明了前进的道路。以电子书阅读器的出现为例。像Kindle（电子书阅读器）这样的设备使阅读更方便，比传统纸质书更环保。科技使新的写作方式成为可能，新的阅读方式也成为可能。互连使得以前难以想象的阅读体验成为可能。传统书籍只能靠照片和插图凑合着用，而电子书可以为读者提供无限数量的链接:文本、图片和视频。在未来，人们写小说、写历史和写哲学的方式将与过去完全不同。另一方面，还有琐碎的危险。一个推特群组向它的追随者们提供了长达一句话的伟大的小说的“摘要”。用一句话概括战争与和平?你一定是在开玩笑。我们应该害怕阅读的碎片化。互联网的高速连接可能会减少我们集中注意力的时间我们将无法阅读任何长篇幅的东西或者需要高度集中注意力的内容。在这样一个瞬息万变的世界里，现实似乎每天都在发生着变化，我们需要有能力集中注意力，理解发生在我们身上的事情。这一直是文学的功能，我们应该小心不要让它消失。我们的社会需要能够想象会有一个完全与现代技术合拍的人的可能性，但也能够理解一个动态的、令人困惑的世界。15世纪，约翰尼斯古滕贝格在欧洲发明了印刷机，对文明产生了巨大影响。从前，纸质书是一件很有挑战性的事情。在我们认为科技会摧毁传统文化之前，我们应该记住这一点。