西安交通大学少年班英语模拟试题2
西安交通大学少年班英语模拟试题
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Part I Writing （30 minutes）
Directions:For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled The Way to Success by commenting on Abraham Lincoln's famous remark, "Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend, the first four
sharpening the axe." You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.
The Way to Success
Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes)
Directions:In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer thequestions on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 1-7, choo the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). For questions 8-10, complete
the ntences with the information given in the passage.
Google's Plan for World's Biggest Online Library: Philanthropy（慈善）Or Act of Piracy?
In recent years, teams of workers dispatched（派遣）by Google have been working hard to make digital（数字的）copies of books. So far, Google has scanned（扫描）more than 10 million titles from libraries in America and Europe - including half a million volumes held by the Bodleian in Oxford. The exact method it us is unclear; the company does not allow outsiders to obrve the process（观察过程中）.
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Why is Google undertaking such a venture（企业）? Why is it even interested in all tho out-of-print library books, most of which have been gathering dust on forgotten shelves for decades（颓废的）? The company claims its motives are esntially
public-spirited（基本上热心公益）. Its overall mission（任务）, after all, is to "organi the world's information"（组织全世界的信息）, so it would be odd if that information did not include books.
The company likes to prent itlf as having lofty aspirations（愿望）. "This really isn't about making money. We are doing this for the good of society." As Santiago de la Mora, head of Google Books for Europe, puts it: "By making it possible to arch the millions of books that exist（存在）today, we hope to expand the frontiers（前沿）of human knowledge."
Dan Clancy, the chief architect（总设计师）of Google Books, does em genuine（真正）in his conviction that this is primarily a philanthropic (慈善的) exerci. "Google's core business is arch and find, so obviously what helps improve Google's arch enginimpex
e is good for Google," he says. "But we have never built a spreadsheet (电子数据表) outlining the financial benefits of this, and I have never had to justify the amount I am spending to the company's founders."
在线英语发音It is easy, talking to Clancy and his colleagues（同事）, to be swept along by their missionary passion（热情）. But Google's book-scanning project is proving controversial. Several opponents have recently emerged, ranging from rival tech giants such as Microsoft and Amazon to small bodies reprenting authors and publishers across the world. In broad terms, the opponents have leveled two ts of criticisms at Google.
2015年12月六级First, they have questioned whether the primary responsibility for digitally archiving the world's books should be allowed to fall to a commercial company. In a recent essay in the New York Review of Books, Robert Darnton, the head of Harvard University's library, argued that becau such books are a common resource – the posssion of us all – only public, not-for-profit bodies should be given the power to control them.
The cond related criticism is that Google's scanning of books is actually illegal. This all
egation has led to Google爬树课
becoming mired in (陷入) a legal battle who scope and complexity makes the Jarndyce and Jarndyce ca in Charles Dickens' Bleak Hou look straightforward.
At its centre, however, is one simple issue: that of copyright. The inconvenient fact about most books, to which Google has arguably paid insufficient attention, is that they are protected by copyright. Copyright laws differ from country to country, but in general protection extends for the duration of an author's life and for a substantial period afterwards, thus allowing the author's heirs to benefit. (In Britain and America, this post-death period is 70 years.) This means, of cour, that almost all of the books published in the 20th century are still under copyright – and the last century saw more books published than in all previous centuries combined. Of the roughly 40 million books in US libraries, for example, an estimated 32 million are in copyright. Of the, some 27 million are out of print.valuable
Outside the US, Google has made sure only to scan books that are out of copyright and t四级翻译词组
hus in the "public domain" (works such as the Bodleian's first edition of Middlemarch, which anyone canread for free on Google Books Search).
But, within the US, the company has scanned both in-copyright and out-of-copyright works. Inits defence, Google points out that it displays only small gments of books that are in copyright– arguing that such displays are "fair u". But critics allege that by making electronic copies of the books without first eking the permission of copyright holders, Google has committed piracy.
"The key principle of copyright law has always been that works can be copied only once authors have expressly given their permission," says Piers Blofeld, of the Sheil Land literary agency in London. "Google has reverd this – it has simply copied all the works without bothering toask."
