2016年12月大學英語六級閱讀練習(4)

　　Terry Wolfisch Cole may seem like an ordinary40-year-old mom, but her neighbors know the truth:She's one of the "Pod People." At the supermarketshe wanders the aisles in a self-contained bubble,thanks to her iPod digital music player. Through those little white ear buds, Wolfisch Cole listensto a playlist mixed by her favorite disc presenter-herself.

　　At home, when the kids are tucked away, Wolfisch Cole often escapes to another solomedia pod- but in this one, she's transmitting instead of just receiving. On her computer weblog, or "blog", she types an online journal chronicling daily news of her life, then shares it allwith the Web.

　　Wolfisch Cole-who also gets her daily news customized off the Internet and whose digitalvideo recorder (DVR)scans through the television wasteland to find and record shows that suither tastes-is part of a new breed of people who are filtering, shaping and even creating mediafor themselves. They are increasingly turning their backs on the established system of massmedia that has provided news and entertainment for the past half-century. They've joined theexploding "iMedia" revolution, putting the power of media in the hands of ordinary people.

　　The tools of the movement consist of a bubbling stew of new technologies that includeiPods, blogs, podcasts, DVRs, customized online newspapers, and satellite radio.

　　Devotees of iMedia run the gamut (范圍)from the 89-year-old New York grandmother,known as Bubby, who has taken up blogging to share her worldly advice, to 11-year-old DylanVerdi of Texas, who has started broadcasting her own homemade TV show or "vlog', for videoweb log. In between are countless iMedia enthusiasts like Rogier van Bakel, 44, of Maine, whoblogs at night, reads a Web- customized news page in the morning, travels with his fully loadediPod and comes home to watch whatever the DVR has chosen for him.

　　If the old media model was broadcasting, this new phenomenon might" be called ego-casting, says Christine Rosen, a fellow with the Ethics and Public Policy Center. The term fits,she says, because the trend is all about me-me-media -" the idea is to get exactly what youwant, when and where you want it."

　　Rosen and others trace the beginnings of the iMedia revolution to the invention of the TVremote, which marked the first subtle shift of media control away from broadcasters and intothe hands of the average couch potato. It enabled viewers to vote with their thumbs-making iteasier to abandon dull programs and avoid commercials. With the proliferation (激增)of cableTV channels in the late 1980s followed by the mid-1990s arrival of the Internet, controllingmedia input wasn't just a luxury. "Control has become a necessity," says Bill Rose, "Withoutit, there's no way to sort through all the options that are becoming available."

　　56. Who is Terry Wolfisch Cole probably according to the passage?

　　A.A middle-aged housewife.

　　B.A saleswoman in the supermarket.

　　C.A disc presenter.

　　D.An online news writer.

　　57. Which of the following is the characteristic of the new breed of people according to thepassage ?

　　A.They provide news and entertainment for the public.

　　B.They have started the iMedia revolution.

　　C.They have helped ordinary people control media.

　　D.They choose what to listen to or watch by themselves.

　　58. What can be learned about the devotees of iMedia from the passage?

　　A.They are either very old or very young.

　　B.They consist of people of all ages.

　　C.They are located in New York, Texas and Maine.

　　D.They share the same interests.

　　59. According to the passage, Christine Rosen calls the iMedia revolution ego-castingbecause _________

　　A.people show themselves in the media

　　B.people get their needs for media met

　　C.people can watch whatever they like

　　D.it is the invention of an individual

　　60. Why was the invention of the TV remote important according to the passage?

　　A.Because it enabled ordinary people to control media to some extent.

　　B.Because it made more cable TV channels available to people.

　　C.Because it led to the invention of Internet in the 1990s.

　　D.Because it made life easier for couch potatoes.

　　參考答案：

　　56.A)。據(jù)第一段的內容可知此段最后一句中提到的discpresenter只是一個比喻，而并不是她的真實身份，故排除C);第二段最后一句確實提到她會把自己日常生活中發(fā)生的事情放到網(wǎng)上與大家分享，但是真正的新聞作家 不可能只寫自己的日常生活，由此可以排除D)。

　　57.D)。本題考查對段落的理解。第三段第一句指出：沃爾費什.科爾是一個新的人群中的一員。這個人群為自己過濾、修改甚至創(chuàng)作媒體。D)“他們自己選擇聽什么或者看什么”與此相符、故為答案。

　　58.B)。本題考查對段落的正確理解。第五段分別選擇了老、中、青三個年齡階段的典型人物來說明iMedia的擁護者包括了從老到少各個年齡階段的人，故答案為B)。

　　59.B)。本題考查對句子的理解。第六段第一句指出：這一新的現(xiàn)象可以被稱為“自我播放”，緊接著說這個詞很貼切，因為這一趨勢全是關于我一我一媒體——“出發(fā)點就是你到底想要什么，你在何時、何地想得到你想要的東西”。

　　60.A)。本題考查對段落的理解。最后一段第一句指出，電視遙控器標志著媒體的掌控權從廣播者手里轉移到普通電視迷手里的第一個微小改變，由此不難推斷出電視遙控的出現(xiàn)使人們或多或少地擁有了媒體的掌控權，A)與此相符，故為答案。