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单选题In the digital realm, things seem always to happen the wrong way round. Whereas Google has hurried to scan books into its digital catalogue, a group of national libraries has begun saving what the online giant leaves behind. ① Although search engines such as Google index the web, they do not archive it. Many websites just disappear when their owner runs out of money or interest. Adam Farquhar，in charge of digital projects for the British Library, points out that the world has in some ways a better record of the beginning of the 20th century than of the beginning of the 21st. ② In 1996 Brewster Kahle，a computer scientist and internet entrepreneur, founded the Internet Archive, anon-profit organisation dedicated to preserving websites．He also began gently harassing national libraries to worry about preserving the web．They started to pay attention when several elections produced interesting material that never touched paper.
In 2003 eleven national libraries and the Internet Archive launched a project to preserve “born-digital”information: the kind that has never existed as anything but digitally. But the task is impossible. One reason is the sheer amount of data on the web. The groups have already collected several petabytes of data.
Another issue is ensuring that the data is stored in a format that makes it available in centuries to come．Ancient manuscripts are still readable. But much digital media from the past is readable only on a handful of fragile and antique machines, if at all. The project has set a single format, making it more likely that future historians will be able to find a machine to read the data. ③ But a single solution cannot capture all content. Web publishers increasingly serve up content-rich pages based on complex data sets. Audio and video programmes based on proprietary formats such as Windows Media Player are another challenge. What happens if Microsoft is bankrupt and forgotten in 2210?
The biggest problem, for now, is money. The British Library estimates that it costs half as much to store a digital document as it does a physical one. But there are a lot more digital ones. America's Library of Congress enjoys a specific mandate, and budget, to save the web. The British Library is still seeking one.
So national libraries have decided to split the task. Each has taken responsibility for the digital works in its national top-level domain ( web-address suffixes such as “. uk” or “. fr”). In countries with larger domains，such as Britain and America, curators cannot hope to save everything. They are concentrating on material of national interest, such as elections, news sites and citizen journalism or innovative uses of the web.
阅读以上文章，回答题
We can infer from the first paragraph that __________．
[A] there is no record of many websites that have disappeared
[B] Google is expected to be engaged in indexing more websites　　
[C] national libraries are trying to win ove

参考答案A

解析:文章大意
本文围绕各国图书馆开始保存网站展开说明，首段通过对比提出主旨，之后第二段对网站保存这一项目的起源进行了说明。第三段指出各国图书馆和因特网档案室启动的保护数码信息的项目，之后提及该项目遇到的第一个问题：信息量巨大。第四段谈及第二个难题，即保存格式。之后谈及资金问题。末段指出针对这些问题各国图书馆采取的应对措施。
长难句注释
1．Whereas Google has hurried to scan books into its digital catalogue，a group of national libraries has begun saving what the online giant leaves behind．
【分析】本句是由Whereas引导的表示对比的并列句，第一个分句是Google has hurried to scan books into its digital catalogue，第二个分句是a group of national libraries has begun saving…。名词性从句what the online giant leaves behind作saving的宾语。
【译文】当谷歌忙于将书籍扫描成数字文档时，各国图书馆已经开始保存这个在线巨头漏掉的资料。
2．Adam Farquhar，in charge of digital projects for the British Library，points out that the world has in some ways a better record of the beginning of the 20th century than of the beginning of the 21st．
【分析】本句为主从复合句，主句主干结构为Adam Farquhar points out that…。that引导point out的宾语从句，in charge of digital projects for the British Library是Adam Farquar的后置定语。
【译文】Adam Farquhar负责大英博物

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A． Brewster Kahle urged them to do so
B． some materials needed to be preserved
C． the Internet Archive invited them to do it
D． a project to preserve information is under way

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单选题The project has encountered all the following problems EXCEPT __________．

A． a lack of fund
B． storage format
C． data volume
D． manpower shortage

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单选题To read the data in the future, __________．

A． a mixed format has been used
B． a new format has been created
C． ancient manuscripts are made use of
D． historians have voiced their opinion

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