【摘要】2013英语四六级在即，精品学习网小编在此为大家编辑了“英语六级外刊阅读指导：书籍和互联网”，供大家参考，希望对四六级考生有所帮助。祝大家取得理想的成绩!
熟悉四六级阅读理解题型的同学应该都了解，英语四六级考试阅读理解材料大多选自《时代》《卫报》《科学美国人》等外刊。要想阅读理解这部分拿到高分，必须在平常多阅读，掌握新词汇，锻炼阅读速度。
本篇阅读材料“书籍和互联网：你能看出它们的关联嘛?”选自《卫报》(原文标题：原文Book and internet: can you see the join? 2012.02.06)，如果大家觉得比较简单，就当作泛读材料了解了解，认识几个新单词或新表达方式也不错。如果大家觉得这些材料理解上有难度，不妨当做挑战自己的拔高训练，希望大家都有进步
It's easy to forget that the world wide web as we know it today evolved from an early attempt to put books on the internet. When Tim Berners-Lee envisaged what would become the world wide web, it was with the idea of making academic papers and other documents widely available. To this end he devised a simple way of laying out text and images on a page, inventing what we now call Hypertext Markup Language or HTML.
envisage vt. 1.想像,设想[+(that)][+v-ing]
devise vt. 1.设计;发明;策划;想出
Early HTML could define pages and paragraphs, bold and italicise text, embed images and lay out tables. A little more than 20 years later, HTML 5 includes media playback and animation, and the web has now become so ubiquitous that for most users it is indistinguishable from the underlying framework of the internet itself, but at its core the technology of the web remains little changed. Every web page, however sophisticated it may seem, is basically a digital book that we read on our computer through our web browser.
ubiquitous adj. 到处存在的，无处不在的，十分普遍的
indistinguishable a. 难区分的，不能分辨的
So when Hugh McGuire, founder of PressBooks and LibriVox, stated today that the book and the internet will merge, he was in one sense simply reiterating what is already the case. But from the perspective of people without the technical knowledge to see how closely entwined the book and the internet already are, it has the whiff of yet another doom-monger proclaiming the death of the book as we know it.
merge v.[I] 1.合并，融合 2.消失 3.吞没
entwine vt.1.使缠绕 2.使交错;使紧密结合 vi. 缠绕;纠缠在一起
McGuire's argument hinges on the recent emergence of ebooks as a serious contender to the print book as the dominant artefact of the publishing industry, with some suggesting that ebooks will make up 50% of the book market by 2015 thanks to the Kindle, iPad and smartphones. Ebooks are deliberately packaged and marketed to appear as much like traditional print books as possible, so many readers will be surprised to discover that ebooks are built around much the same HTML structure that powers the web. Every ebook, no matter how much like a print book it may seem, is a web page that we read on the simplified browser embedded in our e-reader of choice.
hinge n. [C]1.铰链 2.枢纽,关键,中心 vt. 1.给...安装铰链[H] vi. 1.靠铰链转动2.决定于[W][(+on/upon)]