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1、【四川高考卷】 The pound new Library of Birmingham（LoB）will be the most visible sign of the way the city is accepting the digitalization（数字化）of everyday life. Set to open in 2013, the 188m LoB is already beginning to tale shape next to the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, with which it will share some equipme
2、nt. As digital media（媒介）is important to its idea. the project is already providing chances for some of the many small new local companies working at the new technologies. Brian Gambles, the LoB project director, says it is about giving people the right tools for learning,“The aim is to mix the physi
3、cal with the digital. Providing 24-hour services which can be used through, many different ways. It is important to enable us to reach more people, more effectively.” The digital library will, he says, be as important as the physical one, allowing the distant use of the services, making sure that it
4、 is never closed to the public. Even before the LoB is complete, the public has been able to go online to visit the Virtual（虚 拟的）LoB, designed by Baden, the Birmingham virtual worlds specialists. Not only have the public been able to learn about LoB, but the virtual one has also enabled those workin
5、g on the LoB to understand the building and how it will work before it even opens. Two other small Birmingham-based digital companies are working on the LoB projects. Substrat, a digital design company, is developing what it calls an example of an “enlarged reality” project. It is about the use of a
6、n exciting smart phone, an important part of the which is the early stages of development is an online library of figures of the city being built up by a content company in Cahoots, in which users with the encouraged to add to and comment on the material. Gambles says: “Technology will enable us to
7、make the librarys and services open to citizens as sever before.” 1.The underline part “its idea” in Paragraph 3 refers to the idea of_ A. the equipment B. the project C. the digital media D. the physical library 2.While visiting the Virtual LoB, the public can_ A. get a general idea of the LoB B. m
8、eet more world-famous experts C. learn how to put up a library building D. understand how the specialists work on the project 3.Which of the following is true of the LoB when it opens? a. It offers better learning tools b. It reaches users in different ways c. It provides users with smart phone d. I
9、t allows users to enrich its material e. It gives non-stop physical and digital services A. a, b, d B. a, c ,e C. b, c, d D. b, d, e 4.This ext more from . A. a put book B. a library guide C. a handbook D. newspaper report 【参考答案】14、BA AD 阅读理解。 Britains long-term unemployed could be forced to carry o
10、ut manual work or risk losing their welfare benefits under plans being put forward by the government. The U. S. -style scheme would see the long-term jobless ordered to take up four-week placements in order to get them used to having a full-time job. The idea is part of major reforms, due to be unve
11、iled this week, to make cuts to Britains huge welfare bill, reduce dependency on benefits and weed out those earning money but not declaring it, papers said. “What we are talking about here is people who have not been used to working having both the opportunity and perhaps a bit more of a push as we
12、ll, to experience the workplace from time to time. The vast majority of people in Britain will think that is the right thing to do. ”Foreign Secretary William Hague told BBC TV. Shortly after the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Union took power in May, Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith unv
13、eiled plans to simplify the complex web of benefits available to reduce errors and inefficiencies. Duncan Smith said the system had become regressive and was not giving people the right encouragement to work as many were financially better off unemployed. Under his plans, separate benefits for items
14、 such as housing, income support or disability will be replaced by a“universal credit”system whereby(靠那个)individual households would get a single welfare payment to ensure those in work would be better off. The Observer newspaper said that in return, long-term unemployed would be told to take up wor
15、k placements of at least 30 hours a week for a four-week period. If they refuse or fail to complete the programme, their jobseekers allowance, worth 64. 30 pounds a week for those over 25, could be stopped for at least three months. 【文章大意】由于英国的福利过高, 再加上近年来的经济危机造成的高失业率, 越来越多的 英国人不愿再去劳心费力地工作, 干脆赖在家里向政
16、府伸手要钱。当局为了减少养“好逸恶劳 者”的经费, 出台强制性劳动方案, 要求失业的人从事劳力工作, 以此督促他们积极寻找工作。 1. What will the unemployed with welfare benefits face if the major reform takes effect? A. They will lose their welfare benefits if they dont work. B. They will be encouraged to buy their own farms. C. They will do some kinds of jobs. D. Either A or C. 【解析】选 D。细节理解题。第一段第一句话的 carry out manual work or risk losing their welfare benefits 说明在新政下“懒汉”们面临的两种选择
