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第一篇
Section
B
Directions: In this
section
，
you are going to
read a passage with ten statements attached to
it. Each statement contains information
given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the
paragraph from which the
information is
derived. You may choose a paragraph more than
once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter.
Answer the questions 6y marking the
corresponding letter on Answer' Sheet 2.
Can Digital Textbooks Truly Replace the
Print Kind?
A) The shortcomings of
traditional print edition textbooks are obvious:
For starters they're heavy, with the
average physics textbook weighing 3.6
pounds. They're also expensive, especially when
you factor in the
average college
student's limited budget, typically costing
hundreds of dollars every semester. But the worst
part is that print versions of
textbooks are constantly undergoing revisions.
Many professors require that their
students use only the latest versions
in the classroom, essentially rendering older
texts unusable. For students, it
means
they're basically stuck with a four pound
paperweight that they can't sell back.
B) Which is why digital textbooks,
if they live up to their promise, could help ease
many of these
shortcomings. But till
now, they've been something like a
mirage(
幻影
)in the distance,
more like a hazy
(
模糊
的
) dream than
an actual reality. Imagine the promise: Carrying
all your textbooks in a 1.3 pound iPad? It
sounds almost too good to be true. But
there are a few pilot schools already making the
transition(
过渡
) over to
digital books. Universities like
Cornell and Brown have jumped onboard. And one
medical program at the
University of
California, Irvine, gave their entire class iPads
with which to download textbooks just last year.
C) But not all were eager to jump
aboard.
reading,
weren't
using it as a source of communication because they
couldn't read or write in it. So a third of the
people
in my program were using the
iPad in class to take notes, the other third were
using laptops and the last third
were
using paper and pencil.
”
The
reason it hasn't caught on yet .he tells me, is
that the functionality of e-edition
textbooks is incredibly limited, and
some students just aren't motivated to learn new
study behavior.
D) But a new
application called Inkling might change all that.
The company just released an updated version
last week, and it'll be utilized in
over 50 undergraduate and graduate classrooms this
coming school year.
“
Digital
textbooks are not going to catch
on,
”
says Inkling CEO Matt
MacInnis as he's giving me a
demo(
演
示
)over
coffee.
“
What I mean by that
is the current perspective of the digital textbook
is it's an exact copy of
the print
book. There's Course Smart,
etc.
，
these guys who take an
image of the page and put it on a screen. If
that's how we're defining digital
textbooks, there's no of that becoming a
mainstream product
”
E) He calls Inkling a platform for
publishers to build rich multimedia content from
the ground up, with a
heavy emphasis on
real-world functionality. The traditional textbook
merely serves as a skeleton. At first
glance Inkling is an impressive
experience. After
swiping(
触击
)into the iPad app
(
应用软件
)
，
which you can
get for free here, he
opens up a few different types of textbooks.
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F) Up
first chapters is a chemistry book. The boot time
is pretty fast, and he navigates
through(
浏览
)a few
before swiping into a fully rendered 3D
molecule that can be spun around to view its
various blocks.
videos,”
he
says,
actually build
something for this
platform.
”
Next he pulls a
music composition textbook, complete with
playable demos. It's a learning
experience that attacks you from multiple sensory
directions. It's clear why this
would
be something a music major would love.
G) But the most exciting part about
Inkling, to me, is its
notation(
批注
)system. Here's
how it works: When
you purchase a used
print book, it comes with its previous owner's
highlights and notes in the margins. It uses
the reading (how much experience you
trust of someone who already went through the
class to help improve
your each
notation is obviously up to you). But with
Inkling, you can highlight a piece of content and
make
notes. Here's where things get
interesting, though: If a particularly important
passage is highlighted by multiple
Inkling users, that information is
stored on the cloud and is available for anyone
reading the same textbook to
come
across. That means users have access to notes from
not only their classmates and Face-book friends,
but
anyone who purchased the book
across the country. The best comments are then
sorted democratically by a
voting
system, that your social learning experience is
shared with the best and brightest thinkers. As a
can even
chime
in(
插话
)on discussions.
They'll be able to answer the questions of
students who are in their class directly
via the interactive book.
H)
Of course, Inkling addresses several of the other
shortcomings in traditional print as well.
Textbook
versions are constantly
updated, motivating publishers by minimizing
production costs (the big ones like
McGraw-Hill are already
onboard).Furthermore, students will be able to
purchase sections of the text instead of
buying the whole thing, with individual
chapters costing as little as$$2.99.
I)
There are, however, challenges.
”
MacInnis tells me. And it's
clear why.
Each interactive textbook is
a media-heavy experience built from the ground up,
and you can tell that it takes a
respectable amount of manpower to put
together each one.
J) For now the
app is also iPad-exclusive, hardware away for
free, for other and though a few of these
educational institutions are giving
students who don't have such a luxury it's an
added layer of cost--and an
expensive
one at that.
K) But this much is
clear: The traditional textbook model is and has
been broken for quite some time.
Whether digitally interactive ones like
Inkling actually take off or not remains to be
seen, and we probably
won't have a
definite answer for the next few years. However,
the solution to any problem begins with a step in
a direction. And at least for now, that
hazy mirage in the distance? A little more tangibl
e(
可触摸的
)
，
a little
less of a dream.
注意
:
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2
上作答。
46. The problem
with Course Smarts current digital textbooks is
that they are no more than print versions put
on a screen.
47. Digital
textbooks haven't fixed all the shortcomings of
print books.
48. One of the challenges
to build an interactive digital textbook from the
ground up is that it takes a great deal
of manpower to put together each one.
49. Some students still use paper and
pencil because they find it troublesome to take
notes with an iPad.
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