2019年12月大学英语六级仔细阅读练习题

1、2019年12月大学英语六级仔细阅读练习题（2） Passage OneQuestions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage. The paperless office has earned a proud place on lists of technological promises that did not come to pass. Surely, though, the more modest goal of he carbon-paperless office is within the reach of mankind? Ca

2、rbon paper allows two copies of a document to be made at once. Nowadays, a couple of keystrokes can do the same thing with a lot less fuss.Yet carbon paper persists. Forms still need to be filled out in a way that produces copies. This should not come as a surprise. Innovation tends to create new ni

3、ches( 合适的职业), rather than refill those that already exist. So technologies may become marginal, but they rarely go extinct. And today the little niches in which old technologies take refuge are ever more viable and accessible, thanks to the Internet and the fact that production no longer needs to be

4、 so mass; making small numbers of obscure items is growing easier.On top of that, a widespread Technology of nostalgia(技术怀旧 ) seeks to preserve all the ways people have ever done anything, simply because they are kind of neat. As a result technologies from all the way back to the stone age persist a

5、nd even flourish in the modern world. According to What Technology Wants, a book by Kevin Kelly, one of the founders of Wired magazine, Americas flintknappers (燧石) produce over a million new arrow and spear heads every year. One of the things technology wants, it seems, is to survive. Carbon paper,

6、to the extent that it may have a desire for self-preservation, may also take comfort in the fact that, for all that this is a digital age, many similar products are hanging on, and even making comebacks. Indeed, digital technologies may prove to be more transient than their predecessors. They are ba

7、sed on the idea that the medium on which a files constituent 0s and 1s are stored doesnt matter, and on Alan Turings insight that any computer can mimic any other, given memory enough and time. This suggests that new digital technologies should be able to wipe out their predecessors completely. And

8、early digital technologies do seem to be vanishing. The music cassette is enjoying a little renaissance, its very faithlessness apparently part of its charm; but digital audio tape seems doomed.So revolutionary digital technologies may yet discard older ones to the dustbin. Perhaps this will be the

9、case with a remarkable breakthrough in molecular(分子的) technology that could, in principle, store all the data ever recorded in a device that could fit in the back of a van. In this instance, it would not be a matter of the new extinguishing the old. Though it may never have been used for MP3s and PD

10、Fs before, DNA has been storing data for over three billion years. And it shows no sign of going extinct. 56. Which of the following is TRUE about the carbon paper?A) It is the key to paperless office. B) It will be replaced by the computer soon. C) It is more troublesome than the computer.D) It can

11、 hardly survive in the digital age. 57. According to the passage, viable ( Line 4, Para. 2) means _A) secure B) dynamic C) feasible D) flexible 58. Why does the author mention the example of What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly?A) To point out that old Technology of nostalgia will flourish in the mo

12、dern world.B) To illustrate the importance of flintknappers.C) To show that flintknapping is one of the stone age technologies.D) To prove that old technologies seemingly never die. 59. What can be inferred about digital technologies?A) Digital audio tape will be vanished because of its accuracy.B) Digital technologies have been proved to outlive the old technologies.C) Early digital technologies will never go extinct.D) The future of digital technologies will be used for DNA research. 60. The passage mainly concerned withA) the difficulty of the realization of paperless officeB) the