Question

 For a few years now,people have been expecting electronic textbooks to take off in a big way: they're cheaper than traditional textbooks,and seem like a natural progres?sion for students who have grown up playing and working with digital devices. Despite all that,traditional textbooks have prevailed―until now.

The game changer may be the iPad. Maclnnis is the founder of Inkling,a company that designs textbook soft?ware. He says the iPad has allowed for the reinvention of the textbook. He says that until now,etextbooks have basically just been bad imitations of their paper counter?parts.

Last year Reed College tried out the Kindle and this year they've been given free iPads to test. " The problem is that the Kindle is less interactive than a piece of paper,and the Kindle was so slow at highlighting and making notes that the students stopped reading them as scholarly texts and started reading them like novels," Alex Mont?gomery,a professor,said.

Senior Michael Crane and junior Rebecca Traber say that even though they've only had their iPads for a few weeks,they've already been pleasantly surprised.

"I thought it would just kind of be a fun toy," Crane says. "It makes it really easy to read articles for class. In fact,I read pretty much all my articles for all my classes on this now."

"I actually found it startlingly easy to make notes on," Traber says. "You just swipe your finger and you highlight. " Traber also has her doubts. " While I like reading on it better than reading on a laptop,in terms of creating anything—like writing papers or even e-mails-it's ridiculously hard," she says.  "I don't like the key?board at all."

Crane,Traber and Edwards may not know it yet,but they're all in the process of deciding what the classroom of the future will look like. They'll choose the device that works best for them—be it an iPad,a PC or a traditional textbook―and content providers will have to design soft?ware that works across each platform.

That's why digital textbooks will have to match the layout of their print counterparts.

20. The first paragraph tells us that         .

   A. textbooks are in an electronic style

   B. textbooks are still popular today

   C. e        textbooks will replace textbooks

   D. students in digital ages like textbooks

21. According to Maclnnis,the problem with the present etextbooks is '                 

   A. they are just a reinvention of textbooks

   B. they can't provide contents with simple concepts

   C. they just reflect the contents of textbooks

   D. they can't correctly display the contents of text?books 

22. What is the problem with Kindle?

   A. It can't enable readers to highlight something.

   B. It has no place for students to take notes.

   C. It doesn't provide students novels to read.

   D. It fails to interact with readers freely.

23. According to the text,iPad is suitable for         .

   A. writing   B. reading

   C. speaking   D. listening

Answer 1

紙質課本雖然流行，但是iPad的出現會改變這種狀況，將來的電子課本將會成為學生們使用的工具。

20. B推理判斷題。根據第一段的"Despite all that,traditional textbooks have prevailed―until now."可知，現在紙質的課本仍然流行著。

21. C細節理解題。結合第二段的"…e~textbooks have basi?cally just been bad imitations of their paper counterparts."

可知選c。

22. D細節理解題。從第三段的"'The problem is that the Kindle is less interactive than a piece of paper.-'"可知選   D.

23. B細節理解題。結合第五段的"'It makes it really easy to read articles for class. In fact,I read pretty much all my ar?ticles for all my classes on this now.'"可知選   B.