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In the 20th century, all the nightmare-novels of the future imagined that books would be burnt. In the 21st century, our dystopi

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问题     In the 20th century, all the nightmare-novels of the future imagined that books would be burnt. In the 21st century, our dystopias imagine a world where books are forgotten. To pluck just one, Gary Steynghart’s novel Super Sad True Love Story describes a world where everybody is obsessed with their electronic Apparat—an even more omnivorous i-Phone with a flickering stream of shopping and reality shows and porn—and have somehow come to believe that the few remaining unread paper books let off a rank smell. The book on the book, it suggests, is closing.
    The book—the physical paper book—is being circled by a shoal of sharks, with sales down 9 per cent this year alone. It’s being chewed by the e-book. It’s being gored by the death of the bookshop and the library. And most importantly, the mental space it occupied is being eroded by the thousand Weapons of Mass Distraction that surround us all. It’s hard to admit, but we all sense it: it is becoming almost physically harder to read books.
    In his gorgeous little book The Lost Art of Reading—Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time, the critic David Ulin admits to a strange feeling. All his life, he had taken reading as for granted as eating—but then, a few years ago, he "became aware, in an apartment full of books, that I could no longer find within myself the quiet necessary to read" . He would sit down to do it at night, as he always had, and read a few paragraphs, then find his mind was wandering, imploring him to check his email, or Twitter, or Facebook. "What I’m struggling with," he writes, "is the encroachment of the buzz, the sense that there’s something out there that merits my attention."
    I think most of us have this sense today, if we are honest. If you read a book with your laptop thrumming on the other side of the room, it can be like trying to read in the middle of a party, where everyone is shouting to each other. To read, you need to slow down. You need mental silence except for the words. That’s getting harder to find.
    No, don’t misunderstand me. I adore the web, and they will have to wrench my Twitter feed from my cold dead hands. This isn’t going to turn into an antedeluvian rant against the glories of our wired world. But there’s a reason why that word— "wired" —means both "connected to the internet" and "high, frantic, unable to concentrate".
    In the age of the internet, physical paper books are a technology we need more, not less. In the 1950s, the novelist Herman Hesse wrote: "The more the need for entertainment and mainstream education can be met by new inventions, the more the book will recover its dignity and authority. We have not yet quite reached the point where young competitors, such as radio, cinema, etc, have taken over the functions from the book it can’t afford to lose." We have now reached that point.
The most significant reason for the falling sales of paper books is that______.
选项 A、electronic books are taking over more and more market share of paper books
B、people’ minds don’t have the space for reading due to all kinds of temptation
C、bookstores are out of business as people prefer to borrowing books from the library
D、people think things on the Internet are more worthy of their attention
答案B
解析 属细节推断题。图书销量出现在文章第二段第一句。选项A犯了答非所问的错误，其内容确实是这个现象的原因之一，但并非最重要的原因，故错误。文中提到，最重要的就是人们的精神世界被越来越多的东西所吸引，分散了注意力，以至于无暇读书，选项B正是此意，故正确。选项C属于偷梁换柱，图书销量下降并非因为人们更喜欢去图书馆借书，而是书店和图书馆纷纷倒闭，故选项C错误。选项D犯了无中生有的错误，文中并未提及，故错误。
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