D

Sometime in the next century, the familiar early-newspaper on the front porch(门廊)will disappear. And instead of reading your newspaper, it will read to you. You’ll get up and turn on the computer newspaper just like switching on the TV. An electronic voice will distribute stories about the latest events, guided by a program that selects the type of news you want. You’ll even get to choose the kind of voice you want to hear. Want more information on the brief story? A simple touch makes the entire text appear. Save it in your own personal computer if you like. These are among the predictions(预言)from communication experts working on the newspapers of the future. Pictured as part of broader home based media and entertainment systems, computer newspapers would unite print and broadcast reporting, offering news and analysis with video images of news events.
Most of the technology is available(可用的)now, but convincing(说服)more people that they don’t need paper to read a newspaper is the next step. But resistance to computer newspaper may be stronger from within journalism. Since it is such a cultural change, it may be that the present generation of journalists and publishers will have to die off before the next generation realize that the newspaper industry is no longer a newspaper industry. Technology is making the end of traditional newspapers unavoidable.
Despite technological advances, it could take decades to replace newsprint with computer screens. It might take 30 to 40 years to complete the changeover because people need to buy computers and because newspapers have established financial(财经的)interests in the paper industry.

67. The best title for this passage is_______.
A. Computer Newspapers are Well Liked
B. Newspapers of the Future Will Likely Be on Computer
C. Newspapers Are out of Fashion
D. New Communications Technology
（本题分值：2分）【正确答案】B

68. It might take 30 to 40 years for computer newspapers to replace traditional newspapers, because__ .
A. it is technologically impossible now
B. computer newspapers are too expensive
C. there is strong resistance from both the general population and professional journalists
D. traditional newspapers are easy to read
（本题分值：2分）【正确答案】B


69. Which of the following is NOT an advantage of computer newspapers?
A. They are cheaper than traditional newspapers
B. They are very convenient to use
C. You can get more information from them quickly
D. You can easily save information for future use
（本题分值：2分）【正确答案】A

70. Journalists are not eager to accept computer newspapers, because_______.
A. they don’t know how to use computers
B. they think computer newspapers take too much time to read
C. they think the new technology is bad
D. they have been trained to write for traditional newspapers
（本题分值：2分）【正确答案】D

71. We can infer from the passage that_______.
A. all technological changes are good
B. all technologies will eventually replace old ones
C. new technologies will eventually replace old ones
D. traditional newspapers are here to stay for another century
（本题分值：2分）【正确答案】C

E

The Norwegian government is doing its best to keep the oil industry under control. A new law limits exploration(勘探)to an area south of the southern end of the long coastline, production limits have been laid down, and oil companies have not been allowed to employ more than a limited number of foreign workers. But the oil industry has a way of getting over such problems. And few people believe that the government will be able to hold things back for long.
Ever since the war, the government has been carrying out a program of development in the area north of the Arctic Circle. During the past few years this program has had a great deal of success. Tromso has been built up into a local capital with a university, a large hospital and a healthy industry. But the oil industry has already started to draw people south, and within a few years the whole northern policy could be in ruins.
The effects of the oil industry would not be limited to the north, however. With nearly 100 per cent employment, everyone can see a situation developing in which the service industries and the tourist industry will lose most of their workers to the oil industry. Some smaller industries might even disappear altogether when it becomes cheaper to buy goods from abroad.

72. The Norwegian Government would prefer the oil industry to_______.
A. provide more jobs for foreign workers
B. slow down the rate of its development
C. sell the oil it is producing abroad
D. develop more quickly than at present
（本题分值：2分）【正确答案】B

73. The Norwegian Government has tried to_______.
A. encourage the oil companies to discover new oil sources
B. prevent oil companies employing people from Northern Norway
C. help the oil companies solve many of their problems
D. keep the oil industry to something near its present size
（本题分值：2分）【正确答案】D

74. According to the passage, the oil industry might lead in Northern Norway to_______.
A. the development of industry
B. a growth in population
C. the failure of the development program
D. the development of new towns
（本题分值：2分）【正确答案】D

75. In the south, one effect of the development of the oil industry might be______.

A. a large reduction in unemployment
B. a growth in the tourist industry
C. a reduction in the number of existing industries
D. the development of a number of service industry
（本题分值：2分）【正确答案】C