2011年12月大学英语六级真题及答案

Part I： (30 )

: For this part, you are 30 to write a short essay The Way to by on 's , "Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend, the first four the axe." You write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.

The Way to

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Part II ( and ) (15 )

: In this part, you will have 15 to go over the and on Sheet 1. For 1-7, the best from the four A), B), C) and D). For 8-10, the with the given in the .

's Plan for World's : Or Act of ?

In years, teams of by have been hard to make of books. So far, has more than 10 from in and - half a held by the in . The exact it uses is ; the does not allow to the .

Why is such a ? Why is it even in all those out-of- books, most of which have been dust on for ? its are -. Its , after all,is to " the world's "六级模拟题下载, so it would be odd if that did not books.

The likes to as lofty . "This isn't about money. We are doing this for the good of ." As de la Mora, head of Books for , puts it: "By it to the of books that exist today, we hope to the of human ."

Dan , the chief of Books, does seem in his that a (慈善的) . "'s core is and find, what helps 's is good for ," he says. "But we built a (电子数据表) the of this, and I have to the I am to the 's ."

It is easy, to and his , to be swept along by their . But 's book- is . have , from rival tech such as and to small and the world. In broad terms, these have two sets of at .

First, they have the for the world's books be to fall to a . In a essay in the New of Books, , the head of 's , that such books are a – the of us all – only , not-for- be given the power to them.

The is that 's of books is . This has led to mired in (陷入) a legal whose scope and makes the and case in ' Bleak House look .

At its , , is one issue: that of . The fact about most books, to which has paid , is that they are by . laws from to , but in for the of an 's life and for a , thus the 's heirs to . (In and , this post-death is 70 years.) This means, of , that all of the books in the 20th are still under – and the last saw more books than in all . Of the 40 books in US , for , an 32 are in . Of these, some 27 are out of print.

the US, has made sure only to scan books that are out of and thus in the " " (works such as the 's first of , which for free on Books ).

But, the US, the has both in- and out-of- works. Inits , out that it only small of books that are in – that such are "fair use". But that by of these books first the of , has .

"The key of law has been that works can be only once have given their ," says Piers , of the Sheil Land in . " has this – it has all these works toask."

In 2005, the Guild of , with a group of US , suit (集团诉讼) that, after more than two years of , an last that and the had an out-of-. The full are - the text alone runs to 385 pages– and it is no easy task. "Part of the is that it is ," , one of the 's most vocal .

, the deal a for to and whose it has ( them a share of any it works). In for this, the agree not to sue in .

This hands the power - but only with the of – to its of out-of-print books. It can them in deals sold to or sell them under a . It is these that are the 's most .

point out that, by the right to its , paves the way for a shift in the 's role from of to . "'s model has been to for free, and sell on the basis of the this ," out James , at New York Law . Now, he says,of the 's六级模拟题下载, could a force in .

in this of the has on "" works, where there is – these make up an 5-10% of the books has . Under the , when no come and their in a work, to . will be able to up to 20% works for free, them in its deals to and sell them to under the .

It is by no means that the will be (执行) – it is the of in the US . But if it is , will in be off the hook as far as in the US are . Many are by this - and the is to face in other the world.

No one knows the use will make of the it has the world's books, and the truth, as , an and of the Guild, out, is that the doesn't even know . But what is is that, in some way or other, 's into will have a on the book world in the years to come.

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1. its plan for the world's is _____.

A) to serve the of the

B) to the world

C) to save out-of-print books in

D) to its core of

2. to de la Mora, 's book- will _____.

A) 's

B) help the broad of

C) the book

D) make full use of the power of its

3. of Books that the world's books be by _____.

A) non- C)

B) the world's D) the world's tech

4. has in a legal as it _____.