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　　Questions 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? Carbon 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 niches( 合適的職業(yè)), 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 so mass; making small numbers of obscure items is growing easier.

　　On top of that, a widespread Technology of nostalgia(技術懷舊 ) 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 and even flourish in the modern world. According to What Technology Wants, a book by Kevin Kelly, one of the founders of Wired magazine, America's 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, 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 based on the idea that the medium on which a file's constituent 0s and 1s are stored doesn't matter, and on Alan Turing's 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 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 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 PDFs 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 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 modern 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 with

　　A) the difficulty of the realization of paperless office

　　B) the fact that newest technologies may die out while the oldest survive

　　C) the reason why old technologies will never be on the edge of extinction

　　D) the importance of keeping improving technologies all the time

　　參考答案：

　　56.C)。本題考查對復寫紙的理解。由定位句“復寫紙可迅速地把一份文件印出兩份復件。如今，敲幾下鍵盤就可以做到同樣的事情，而且還省去了不少麻煩”可知，復寫紙使用起來要比計算機麻煩，故答案為C)。

　　57.C)。本題考查“viable”的詞意。定位句提到“現如今，由于互聯網技術以及不再需要大規(guī)模生產這一事實，那些古老技術賴以延續(xù)的微小職業(yè)正變得越來越容易存活并且容易入門”，根據上下文可推斷出，viable應與accessible為同一語義場，即“可行的，易存活的”，故正確答案為C)。

　　58.D)。本題考查作者以凱文·凱利所著《技術想要什么》為例的目的。定位句提到“《連線》雜志創(chuàng)始人之一凱文·凱利在其《技術想要什么》一書中稱，美國的燧石工每年生產超過100萬支新箭頭和矛頭，技術所想露的事情之一似乎就是存活下去�！倍�作者在定位句前一句指出“所以，從石器時代以來的技術得以存在，甚至在現代世界興盛起來�！惫时疚淖髡咭詣P文·凱利所著《技術想要什么》為例旨在證明舊技術似乎永遠都不會消亡，故D)為答案。

　　59.A)。本題考查對數字技術的理解。由定位句可知“音樂磁帶正悄然成為復興的潮流，失真特質似乎正是其魅力的一部分;但數字錄音帶似乎難逃消亡厄運”，由此可推出，數字錄音帶似乎難逃消亡厄運是由于其保真，可被復制，故答案為A)。

　　60.B)。文章以復寫紙為例說明舊技術不會消亡，接下來論證其原因，最后表明最新的技術看起來最有可能消失;而最古老的技術有可能一直與我們相伴，故答案為B)。

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