6月大學(xué)英語(yǔ)四級(jí)閱讀訓(xùn)練

1、XX年6月大學(xué)英語(yǔ)四級(jí)閱讀訓(xùn)練XX年6月大學(xué)英語(yǔ)四級(jí)閱讀訓(xùn)練DIGITAL books are changing traditional publishing models everywhere. In America and Britain, the rise of electronic books is the cause. China s revolution is different.I can t identify any popular literary trend that didn t originate online, “ says Jo Lusby of Penguin C

2、hina. Although e-readers are still scarce, the inter has greatly affected reading habits. Chinese people increasingly read books on phones, tablets and laptops. People under 30, who are most likely to own such devices, are the most avid readers, says Eric Abrahamsen, a Beijing-based publishing consu

3、ltant.originate v.發(fā)源;起源scarce adj.缺乏的，缺乏的;稀有的adv.僅僅;幾乎不avid adj.渴望的；熱心的consultant n.參謀；咨詢(xún)者The result has been an outpouring of mass-market fiction, written (and read) on websites, not in print. Five years ago inter publishers were typically informal, backroom outfits, but Shanda, an online gaming pa

4、ny, seized the mercial opportunity and now owns most of the literary sites. It sells subscriptions by the chapter or book, by the week or month. Online novels start at around five yuan ($0.80) pared with 30 yuan for an average printed volume.literary sites 文學(xué)網(wǎng)站subscription n.訂閱；認(rèn)購(gòu);捐獻(xiàn)Some of the newl

5、y popular online genres, such as romance, exist everywhere. Others could be termed fiction with Chinese characteristics: grave-robbing stories, for example; official corruption fables involving scheming cadres; and time-travel books where 2, 000-year-old warriors pop into a contemporary Beijing disc

6、o.grave-robbing stories 盜墓scheming adj.慣耍陰謀的；詭計(jì)多端的pop into匆匆走進(jìn)Some of this online material makes it into book form. Print sales, dominated by the country s 580 state-owned publishing houses, are now worth 44 billion yuan ($7 billion). But growth has slowed from 10% a year in xx to around 5%, aording

7、 to Yang Wei of OpenBook, a marketresearch firm. Like many online start-ups, Shanda is not yet making money out of web books, although revenues are growing.The inter has also changed the way that books are promoted. China has relatively few bookshops so cultural working sites such as Douban. have pr

8、oved good at targeting new readers. Few writers make much money, online or in print. The handful of stylish novelists who do have bee celebrities. Guo Jingming, a 28-year-old with six novels in xx s top 20 list, manages a group of young writers whose magazine Top Novel sells 400,000 copies a month.

9、Han Han, a 29-year-old novelist turned racing-car driver, has a popular blog. Mr Han rose to fame cleverly tweaking the authorities without running foul of the censors. Today s edgy writers, such as Murong Xuecun, can steer around the censors with their online writing, then make necessary cuts in th

10、eir print editions. Most authors give the censors no trouble. They know where the line is drawn.handful of 少數(shù)stylish adj.時(shí)髦的；現(xiàn)代風(fēng)格的 run foul of與爭(zhēng)吵；同發(fā)生沖突;與發(fā)生糾葛steer around 繞過(guò)The proliferation of television channels has created a new stable of authors, and books by television hosts populate bestseller

11、lists. Many are self-help titles. Bai Yansong, a state television presenter, shot up the charts with uAre You Happy?” ; and the popularity of “Why is our Life so Hard?” , a book by a talk-show host, Lang Xianping, says much about people s concerns that they are not betteroff, despite a booming econo

12、my, proliferation n.擴(kuò)散；繁殖 a stable of 一大批；一大群shot up迅速成長(zhǎng);直線上升better off經(jīng)濟(jì)狀況好的；富裕的booming economy繁榮的經(jīng)濟(jì)；經(jīng)濟(jì)蓬勃開(kāi)展Some foreign titles win mercial suess. Stieg Larsson s “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” trilogy has sold more than 100,000 copies in Chinese. Yet publishing is a local affair, and even translated titles may be trumped by more popular Chinese imitations. Dan Brown s The Da Vinci Code” , for example, has been outstripped locally by his Chinese counterpart, He Ma, whose ten-part “Tibet Code“ unearths ancient Tibetan Buddh