Unit 2
Activity 2 Read the passage and match the main ideas with the paragraphs. 阅读文章，并把主题思想与段落搭配起来。
Will books be replaced by the Internet?
书籍将被因特网取代吗？
Every morning,my father buys a newspaper on his way to work. Every day, I open my books in class and start my lessons. Every evening, my mother looks htrough magazines at home. And every night,I look at the photos of David Beckham and Yao Ming on my bedroom wall before I go to sleep. Can we imagin8 life without paper or printing?
每天早上，我爸爸在去上班的路上买份报纸。每天，我在课堂上打开书开始上课。每天晚上，我妈妈都在家浏览杂志。而且每天夜晚，我睡觉之前，都看着卧室墙上大卫·贝克汉姆和姚明的照片。我们能想象没有纸和印刷术的生活吗？
Paper was first created about 2,000 years ago in China. After its invention, people started to write on paper to make books. In those days, books were only produced one at a time by hand. As a result,there were not many books, and they were expensive. So,few people had the chance to learn to read.
纸是大约2 000年前在中国被首次创造出来的。在它的发明之后，人们开始在纸上写字来制书。在那个年代，书是靠手工制作的，一次只能制作一本。因此，书籍数量少且价格贵。所以，很少有人有机会学着读书。
Printing was invented in China during the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Later, developments in printing made it possible to produce books more quickly and cheaply. A trade in books resulted, and more people learnt to read. Knowledge and ideas spread faster than ever before. In a way, we can compare the in- vention of paper and printing to the introduction of the Internet in the twentieth century.
印刷术是在中国隋唐时期发明的。后来，印刷术的发展使更快更便宜地制造书籍成为可能。书的交易形成了，更多的人学着读书。知识和思想比以前传播得更快了。在某种程度上，我们可以把纸和印刷术的发明与20世纪因特网的引入相媲美。
Although the Internet is still young,it is growing very fast, and may become more powerful than printing. A much larger amount of information can be stored in more varied forms on the Internet than in books. Someone with an Internetconnection can find information much more easily than they can find it in printed forms. And the machines we use to read it are now small and light,often smaller and lighter than a single book.
尽管因特网还在初期，但它发展很快，而且可能比印刷术变得更强大。在因特网上比在书籍中更大的信息量会以更多样化的形式被存储。使用网络连接的人比在印刷品中寻找信息的人能更容易地找到信息。我们用来阅读信息的机器现在小而轻，经常比一本单独的书更小更轻。
Computers and the Internet are used in classrooms now,and newspapers and magazines are already read online. So what direction will traditional printing take in the future? Will books be replaced by the Internet? Let's wait snd see.
现在电脑和因特网在教室中被使用。报纸和杂志已经能够在线阅读。那么传统的印刷术未来的方向是什么呢？书籍将被因特网取代吗？让我们拭目以待。