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（湖南科技大学大学英语3）
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
My generation —— the generation that came of age in the 1950s and 1960s —— may be the last one to know the feeling of being surrounded by millions of words that were the products of years of work by authors famous and obscure. For now we are seeing a subtle but unmistakable turning away from such things. The houses of America， I fear， may soon include no room for libraries. The hardcover book —— that symbol of the permanence of thought， the handing down of wisdom from one age to the next —— may be a new addition to our list of endangered species.
I have a friend who runs a bookstore in a Midwestern college town. He has found that he can not sell hardcover books； paperback books are his stock in trade， and even those are a disappointment to him. “You know how we used to see people carrying around book bags？” he tells me. “Well， now I look out of the window of my shop， and all I see are students carrying boxes from the record stores. The students aren’t reading any more. They’re listening to albums（唱片集）。”
And indeed he may be right. Stories of problems young people have with reading are not new， but the trend seems to be worsening. Recently the president of a university in New York said that 10 percent of the freshmen （大学一年级学生） at this university could read no better than the average eighth grader. There is an even more worrying aspect to it： of those college freshmen whose reading skills were equivalent to the sixth-to-eighth-grade level， the president reported that many had ranked in the top half of their high-school classes.
21. The underlined word “obscure” （Paragraph 1） most probably means ____.
A. not well-paid B. not well-made C. not well-trained D. not well-known
22. The hardcover book may become an endangered species because _______.
得分 评卷人
A. hardcover books are scarcer today
B. people are tired of hardcover books
C. the habit of reading books is dying out
D. the permanence of thought is challenged
23. The writer mentions his friend‘s bookstore to show that _______.
A. there is a gradual lack of interest in serious reading
B. there is a subtle increase in the popularity of music
C. hardcover books greatly affect his friend‘s business
D. paperback books are a disappointment to his friend
24. As a result of the worsening trend of turning away from reading ____.
A. many college students enjoy listening to albums
B. students fail to read as well as they are required to
C. many high school students fail to enter universities
D. high-school students have become the best readers
25. The passage is mainly about _______.
A. the changes in people‘s attitude towards reading
B. the troubles encountered by the owner of a bookstore
C. the trend of reading in the 1950s and 1960s
D. the problems that college students have with reading
My generation —— the generation that came of age in the 1950s and 1960s —— may be the last one to know the feeling of being surrounded by millions of words that were the products of years of work by authors famous and obscure. For now we are seeing a subtle but unmistakable turning away from such things. The houses of America， I fear， may soon include no room for libraries. The hardcover book —— that symbol of the permanence of thought， the handing down of wisdom from one age to the next —— may be a new addition to our list of endangered species.
I have a friend who runs a bookstore in a Midwestern college town. He has found that he can not sell hardcover books； paperback books are his stock in trade， and even those are a disappointment to him. “You know how we used to see people carrying around book bags？” he tells me. “Well， now I look out of the window of my shop， and all I see are students carrying boxes from the record stores. The students aren’t reading any more. They’re listening to albums（唱片集）。”
And indeed he may be right. Stories of problems young people have with reading are not new， but the trend seems to be worsening. Recently the president of a university in New York said that 10 percent of the freshmen （大学一年级学生） at this university could read no better than the average eighth grader. There is an even more worrying aspect to it： of those college freshmen whose reading skills were equivalent to the sixth-to-eighth-grade level， the president reported that many had ranked in the top half of their high-school classes.
21. The underlined word “obscure” （Paragraph 1） most probably means ____.
A. not well-paid B. not well-made C. not well-trained D. not well-known
22. The hardcover book may become an endangered species because _______.
得分 评卷人
A. hardcover books are scarcer today
B. people are tired of hardcover books
C. the habit of reading books is dying out
D. the permanence of thought is challenged
23. The writer mentions his friend‘s bookstore to show that _______.
A. there is a gradual lack of interest in serious reading
B. there is a subtle increase in the popularity of music
C. hardcover books greatly affect his friend‘s business
D. paperback books are a disappointment to his friend
24. As a result of the worsening trend of turning away from reading ____.
A. many college students enjoy listening to albums
B. students fail to read as well as they are required to
C. many high school students fail to enter universities
D. high-school students have become the best readers
25. The passage is mainly about _______.
A. the changes in people‘s attitude towards reading
B. the troubles encountered by the owner of a bookstore
C. the trend of reading in the 1950s and 1960s
D. the problems that college students have with reading
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