中石油职称英语考试阅读理解精讲
Why To Mark a Book 怎样在书上做标记
1. You know you have to read "between the lines" to get the most out of anything. I want to persuade you to do something equally important in the course of your reading. I want to persuade you to "write between the lines." Unless you do, you are not likely to do the most efficient kind of reading.
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1、你知道读书必须要阅读“字里行间的言外之意”，以求最充分的理解(to get the most out of anything)。我劝(persuade)你在读书过程中(in the course of your reading)做一件同等重要的事情(to do something equally important);我劝你“在字里行间里写字”。不这样做(unless)，就达不到最有效的阅读效果。
2. I contend, quite bluntly, that marking up a book is not an act of mutilation but love.
2、坦率地说，我认为(contend)，在书上涂抹标记(marking up a book)不是一种损毁行为(an act of mutilation)，而是爱。
3. You shouldn't mark up a book which isn't yours. Librarians (or your friends) who lend you books expect you to keep them clean, and you should. If you decide that I am right about the usefulness of marking books, you will have to buy them. Most of the world's great books are available today, in reprint editions, for a modest sum.
3、当然，你不应该(shouldn't)在不属于你的书上做标记。借给你书的图书管理员(或者你的朋友)希望你保持书的整洁，你应该这样做。如果你认为我说的在书上做标记颇有益处这番话是对的，你就得自己买书。现在，绝大部分世界上的好书都有再版(reprint edition)，我们很容易买到，并且价格合理(a modest sum)。
4. There are two ways in which you can own a book. The first is the property right you establish by paying for it, just as you pay for clothes, and furniture. But this act of purchase is only the prelude to possession. Full ownership comes only when you have made it a part of yourself, and the best way to make yourself a part of it is by writing in it. An illustration may make the point clear. You buy a beefsteak and transfer it from the butcher's icebox to your own. But you do not own the beefsteak in the most important sense until you consume it and get it into your bloodstream. I am arguing that books, too, must be absorbed in your bloodstream to do you any good.
4、一个人拥有书的方式有两种，之一种是花钱(by paying for it)取得(establish)财产所有权(property right)，就像(just as)你花钱买衣服和家具一样。但是，这种购买行为仅是拥有书的前提(prelude to possession)。只有你将它化为自己的一部分后，你才完全占有了它(full ownership comes);同时，把你自己融入书中的更好 *** 就是在书中写字(by writing in it)。打个比方可能使这个观点更清楚(An illustration may make the point clear)。你买了一块牛排(beefsteak)，把它从屠夫的冰箱里移到了你自己的冰箱里。但是，从最重要的意义上说(in the most important sense)，你并没有拥有这块牛排，除非你吃下它并将它吸收进你的血液(bloodstream)之中。我的观点是(I am arguing that)，书的营养也必须应该被“吸收到血液”中，才能对你有所裨益。
5. Confusion about what it means to own a book leads people to a false reverence for paper, binding, and type-a respect for the physical thing-the craft of the printer rather than the genius of the author. They forget that it is possible for a man to acquire that idea, to possess the beauty, which a great book contains, without staking his claim by pasting his bookplate inside the cover. Having a fine library doesn't prove that its owner has a mind enriched by books; it proves nothing more than that he, his father, or his wife, was rich enough to buy them.
5、对于“拥有书籍”的真正含义的(about what it means to own a book)误解(confusion)使人们错误地崇敬(a false reverence)纸张、装订和样式-这是对物质的崇敬(a respect for the physical thing)-是崇敬印刷工人的技艺(craft)，而不是书籍作者的才华。他们忘记了，即使不在(without)封面里贴上藏书票(by pasting his bookplate inside the cover)表明自己对书籍的拥有，人们也可以从一本伟大的著作中获得它的精神(to acquire that idea)，领略它的美丽(to possess the beauty)。一个好书房并不能证明它的主人学富五车;仅仅(nothing more than)说明他、他的父亲或是他的妻子有钱买书而已。
6. There are three kinds of book owners. The first has all the standard sets and best-sellers-unread, untouched. (This deluded individual owns woodpulp and ink, not books.) The second has a great many books-a few of them read through, most of them dipped into, but all of them as clean and shiny as the day they were bought. (This person would probably like to make books his own, but is restrained by a false respect for their physical appearance.) The third has a few books or many every one of them dog-eared and dilapidated, shaken and loosened by continual use, marked and scribbled in from front to back. (This man owns books.)
6、书籍拥有者可以分为三种。之一种人拥有全部的标准成套书和畅销书(best-sellers)--既没读过，也没碰过(unread, untouched)。(这种人占有的只是纸浆和油墨，不是书籍。)第二种人藏书很多--其中几本(a few of them)被通读过(read through 仔细阅读)，大部分(most of them)则浅尝辄止(dip into 浏览, 稍加审视)，但是所有的书都跟新买时一样整洁光亮(as clean and shiny as the day they were bought)。(这种人可能想使书籍真地为其所用，但因错误地过分关注书籍的外观而裹足不前。第三种人藏书或多或少--因不断使用，每本书都书角卷起(dog-eared)，破旧不堪(dilapidated)，装订破损，书页松散(loosened)，全书从扉页至末页都画满了记号，涂满了字句(scribble)。(这种人才是书的真正拥有者。)
7. Is it false respect, you may ask, to preserve intact and unblemished a beautifully printed book, an elegantly bound edition? Of course not. I'd no more scribble all over a first edition of "Paradise Lost" than I'd give my baby a set of crayons and an original Rembrandt! I wouldn't mark up a painting or a statue. Its soul, so to speak, is inseparable from its body. And the beauty of a rare edition or of a richly manufactured volume is like that of a painting or a statue.
7、你可能要问，将一本印刷精美、装帧雅致的书保存完好，难道也是不恰当的吗?当然不是(of course not)。我绝不会在一本初版的《失乐园》上乱涂乱写(scribble)，就像我不会把一幅伦勃朗的原作连同一盒蜡笔交给我的孩子任意涂抹一样!(no more…than 与…同样不) 我决不会在一幅绘画或者一座雕像上做标记。可以说，它们的灵魂与它们的躯体是不可分的。(be inseparable from 不可与...分开) 精美的善本或丰富的卷册就像一幅绘画和一座雕像。
8. But the soul of a book can be separated from its body. A book is more like the score of a piece of music than it is like a painting. No great musician confuses a symphony with the printed sheet of music. Arturo Toscanini revered Brahms, but Toscanini's score of the C-minor Symphony was so thoroughly marked up that no one but the maestro himself could read it. The reason why a great conductor makes notations on his musical scores-marks them up again and again each time he returns to study them-is the reason why you should mark your books. If your respect for magnificent binding or typography gets in the way, buy yourself a cheap edition and pay your respects to the author.
8、但是，一本书的灵魂能够从它的躯体里分离出来。与其说它像一幅画(a printing)，还不如说它更像一首乐曲的总谱(the scroe of a piece of music; scroe【音乐】总谱;(电影等的)配乐; a piece of music 一段音乐;一首音乐;一首乐曲)。任何伟大的音乐家都不会将一首交响曲(a symphony)和一张印刷的乐谱相混淆。托斯卡尼尼非常崇敬(revere)博拉姆斯，但他的C小调交响曲的乐谱上画满了标记，以致(that)只有大师本人 (no noe but the maestro himself) 才能看懂。为什么一个伟大的指挥家(a great conductor)会在乐谱上做记号(make notations)-甚至每次研究都会重复标记-其中的奥妙正是你应该在书上做记号的原因。如果你对华美的(magnificent)装帧和印刷的尊重妨碍(get in the way)你读书的话，就给自己买一种便宜的版本，同时对书的作者表达敬意就可以了。
9. Why is marking up a book indispensable to reading? First, it keeps you awake. (And I don't mean merely conscious; I mean wide awake.) In the second place, reading, if it is active, is thinking, and thinking tends to express itself in words, spoken or written. That marked book is usually the thought-through book. Finally, writing helps you remember the thoughts you had, or the thoughts the author expressed.
9、为什么在阅读过程中在书上做标记是必不可少的(indispensable)呢?首先，它会使你保持清醒。(我指的不是仅仅神智清醒(merely conscious);我的意思是它能使你全神贯注(wide awake)。)其次(in the second place)，如果阅读(reading)是一种能动的行为，那么它就是思考，而想法(thinking)常常需借助口头的或书面的语言来表达出来。做过记号的书，通常是读者认真思考过的书(the thought-through book)。最后，写可以帮助你记住阅读时的思想，或作者所表达的思想。
10. If reading is to accomplish anything more than passing time, it must be active. You can't let your eyes glide across the lines of a book and come up with an understanding of what you have read. Now an ordinary piece of light fiction, like, say, Gone 14h'th the Wind, doesn't require the most active kind of reading. The books you read for pleasure can be read in a state of relaxation, and nothing is lost. But a great book, rich in ideas and beauty, a book that raises and tries to answer great fundamental questions, demands the most active reading of which you are capable. You don't absorb the ideas of John Dewey the way you absorb the songs of a popular singer. You have to reach for them. That you cannot do while you're asleep.
10、如果(你的)阅读的目的不仅仅是(more than)消磨时间(passing time)，那就应该是一种积极的思维活动，仅仅让你的眼睛在书上扫视一遍，你不可能对所读的'内容(what you have read)有所理解。当然，一部普通的消遣小说(light fiction)，比如说(like, say,)《飘》，并不需要那种最积极的思维式的阅读。作为消遣的书，可以轻松地读而不会有所失。但一本思想丰富、文字华美，试图提出(raise)带根本性的重大问题并加以回答的伟大著作，则要求你尽可能地进行(of which you are capable; be capable of v.能够)最积极的阅读。你不可能像欣赏(absorb)流行歌曲那样领略(absorb)杜威的思想。你要花力气才能获得，漫不经心是做不到的。
11. If, when you've finished reading a book, the pages are filled with your notes, you know you read actively. The most famous active reader of great books I know was President Hutchins, of the University of Chicago. He also had the hardest schedule of business activities of any man I know. He invariably read with a pencil, and sometimes, when he picked up a book and pencil in the evening, he found himself, instead of making intelligent notes, drawing what he called "caviar factories" on the margins. When that happened, he put the book down. He knew he was too tired to read, and was just wasting time.
11、如果，你读完一本书的时候，书页上写满了你的批注(your notes)，你就知道自己的阅读是积极的(actively)。我知道的最有名的采用积极方式阅读伟大著作的人(the most famous active reader of great books)是芝加哥大学的校长哈金斯。他也是我所知道的公务最繁忙的人(the hardest schedule of business activities of any man)。他读书时总是(invariably= always)拿着铅笔。有时，当他在晚上拿起书和铅笔的时候，发觉自己并没有(instead of)在做有意义的笔记(intelligent notes)，而是在页边空白处(on the margins)乱涂乱画一些他称之为“鱼子酱工厂”(caviar factories)的东西。一出现这种情况，他就会放下书本。他知道自己太累了以致读不下去，(再继续看书)完全是在浪费时间。
练习:
1.I want to persuade you _______ something equally important in the course of your reading.
A doing B to do C to doing D have done
2. There are two ways _____ you can own a book.
A by which B of which C in which D with which
3. I am arguing that books must _____ your bloodstream to do you any good.
A absorb in B be absorbed in C soak in D suck in
4. Confusion about ____ it means to own a book leads people to a false reverence for paper, binding and type—the craft of printer rather than the genius of the author.
A which B that C what D whose
5. They forget that it is possible for a man to acquire that idea, to possess the beauty, which a great book contains, without _____ his claim by ____ his bookplate inside the cover.
A starting, pasting B staking, passing C staking, pasting D stake, paste
6. Having a fine library doesn’t prove that its owner has a mind _____ by books.
A rich B colorful C enriching D enriched
7. The second has a great many books--a few of them read through, most of them ____, but all of them as clean and shiny as they ____.
A dipped into, bought B dip into, were bought
C dip into, buy D dipped into, were bought
8. A book is _____ like the score of a piece of music _____ it is like a painting.
A no more, than B more, than C same, as D too, to
9. Why is marking up a book ____ to reading?
A dependable B indispensable C dependent D disposal
10. A book that raises and tries to answer great fundamental questions, demands the most active reading _____ you are capable.
A to which B of which C by which D to what
答案： 1B 2C 3B 4C 5C 6D 7D 8B 9B 10B
PETS是职称英语么！
全国公共英语等级考试PETS介绍
为了适应社会发展的需要，为广大的外语学习人员提供助学服务，同时促进我国外语教学从应试教育走上素质教育，提高国民外语素质，由国家教育部主办，首先在全国范围内推出全国公共英语等级考试(Public English test system，简称PETS)。该考试得到英国海外发展署(ODA)及其聘请的英方英语测试专家的技术支持，使考试更具权威性。
PETS考试是一个向社会全方位开放的考试体系，是为报考人员提供目标参照性的等级水平考试，它遵循科学、公正、准确、规范的原则，特别注重考查考生的交际能力，考试包括笔试和口试，对考生的听、说、读、写能力进行全面考查、笔试和口试均合格者，由教育部考试中心颁发给《全国英语等级证书考试合格证书》。合格证书既可作为持有者英语能力水平的权威性证明；又可为各地各单位对其所用人才的英语水平提供一个公正、统一的评价尺度。
PEST考试设置五个级别和一个附属级，五个级别是：一级(含一级(B)，即附属级)、二级、三级、四级、五级。各级别标准如下：
PETS各级别描述：
（一）一级：该级是全国公共英国公共英语等级考试(PETS)五个级别中的初始级，其标准略高于我国九年义务制教育—初中毕业日才的英语水平。准备参加该级考试的考生，一般在18岁以上(含18岁)。在普通初中学习了3年的英语课程，并为准有关的英语培训或自学了相同的内容。通过该级考试的考生，其英语基本符合诸如出租车司机、宾馆行李员、门卫、交通誓等工作，以及同层次其他同做在对外交往中的基本需要。
语言知识：该级考生应能适当运用基础的语法知识，并掌握1000左右的词汇以及相关词组。
语言运用：(1)互动能力该级考生在背景清晰的情况下，可以用英语与外国人谈，表达问候、感谢以及交换特定信息，诸如：价格、日期、指路等。(2)接受能力-能够听懂熟悉的日常生活中发音清楚、语速较慢的简短话语。读懂简单的通知、便条、留言时间表以及简短故事。(3)产出能力-能够写出简短的便条转达具体信息。
口语:该级考生应能在熟悉的情景中进行简单信息交流，例如询问或传递基本的事实性信息。
考生应能：(1) 使用简单的单词、短语、句型生成话语； (2)恰当地运用已知的或固定的词组；(3)积极地交流，并能用简单的补救措施解决交流困难。
（二）二级：该级是全国公共英语等级考试(PETS)五个级别中的中下级，其标准相当于我国普通高中优秀毕业生的英语水平。准备参加该级考试的考生，一般在18岁以上(含18岁)，在普通初中3年的基础上又学高中的英语课程。通道该级考试的考生，其英语水平基本满足进入高等院校继续学习的要求，同时也是基本符合诸如宾馆前台服务员、一般银行职般员工，以及同其他工作在对外交往中的基本需要。
语言知识：该级考生应能适当运用基本的语法知识，掌握2000左右的词汇以及相关词组。
语言运用：(1)互动能力-该级考生在背景清晰的情况下，可以用英语与外国人文谈，包括交换特定信息，诸如：事件、时间、地点、价格等。(2)接受能力-能够听懂熟悉的日常生活中发音清楚、语速较慢的简短话语或独白。读懂通知，简单的介绍和广告，通俗易懂的英文书刊或报纸。(3)产出能力-能够写日记、信函、通知和便条等。
口语:该级考生应能在在熟悉的情景中中进行简电对话，例如询问或传递基本的事实性信息，应能提供或是要求得到更清楚的阐述，同时口才也能表达简单的观点和态度。
考生应能：(1) 使用简单的单词、短语、句型组成句子；(2)恰当地运用已知的或因定的词组；(3)积极地交流，并能用简单的补救措施解决交流困难。
（三）三级：该级是全国公共英语等级考试(PETS)五个级别中的中间级，其标准相当于我国学生普通高中毕业后在大专院校又学习了2年公共英语或自学了同等程度英语课程的水平。准备参加该级考试的考生，一般在20岁以上，从事的工作诸如：企事业单位的行政秘书、经理助理、一般管理人员或科技工作者、外企职员等。通过该级考试的考生，其英语已达到高等教育自学考试非英语专业本科毕业水平或符合普通高校非英语专业本科毕业的要求，基本符合企事业单位理、初级科技术人员、外企职员的工作，以及同层次其他工作在对外交往中的基本需要。
语言知识：该级考生应能适当运用基本的语法知识，掌握4，000左右的词汇以及相关词组。
语言运用：(1)互动能力-该级考生在大多数日常的工作和社会生活情景中，可以用英语与外国人交谈，不仅交流具体信息，也可以交流思想和观点。(2)接受能力-能够听懂一般性谈话或讨论。读懂公共通知，招贴，公务信函，以及普通性的报刊文章和书籍。(3)产出能力-能够写便条，信函，工作备忘录，通知，申请，声明和概要,以及一般描述性、叙述性和说明性文章。能够依据简单的图表或图片,写出相关的短文。
口语:该级考生应能在生活和工作的多数情景中进行对话，不仅能够询问事实，还能询问抽象的信息，应能提供或是要求得到更清楚的阐述，同时口才也能表达简单的观点和态度。
考生应能：(1)基本连贯地进行较长的论述；(2)保持语言的流畅；(3) 积极地，有回应地交流，并能用适当的补救措施解决交流困难。
（四）四级：该级是全国公共英语等级考试(PETS)五个级别中的中上级，其标准相当于我国学生普通高中毕业后在大学至少又学习了3—4年公共英语或自学了同等程度英语课程的水平。准备参加该级考试的考生，一般22岁以上，或打算攻该普通高校非英语专业硕士学位或已有同等学历从事各种专业技术工作或高级管理工作。通过该级考试的考生，其英语基本满足攻读高等院校硕士研究生非英语专业的需要，基本符合一般专业技术人员或研究人员、现代企业经理等工作对英语的基本要求。
语言知识：该级考生应能适当运用基本的语法知识，掌握5，500左右的词汇以及相关词组。
语言运用：(1)互动能力-该级考生能在大多数日常工作和社会生活的情景中用英语与外国人交谈，能够实际有效地参加会议或学术研讨。(2)接受能力-能够听懂英语讲座、学术发言或论证的大部分内容。读懂商务信函，技术说明书，普通性以及所熟悉专业的报刊文章和有关书籍。(3)产出能力-能够写商务信函,简况,摘要,概要,读书笔记,同时也能够写一般描述性、叙述性和说明性文章。能够清楚地介绍自己工作或学术上他人有兴趣的事务或问题。
口语:该级考生废能参与一般性或专业学术话题的讨论，不仅能够询问事实，还能询问油象的信息。能够就某一观点的正确与否进行争论，详细说明—个问题，一个过程，或一个事件。此外还能就某个一般性问题或所熟悉领域的问题进行阐述。
考生应能：(1)使用适当、准确的语言表达思想，并能产生较长的、内容较连贯、达意的话语。(2)中途由于考虑措施及语言的恰当性可以有正常的迟疑或停顿；(3)积极地交流，并能使用有效的交流补救措施。
（五）五级：该级(即原WSKEPT）是全国公共英语等级考试(PETS)五个级别中的更高级，其标准相当于我国大学英语专业二年级结束时的水平。准备参加该级考试的考生，一般在25岁以上，他们已经完成或研究生的学业，通常在大专院校，教书，或从事科研工作，或准备申请国家奖学金去国外进修。通过该级考试的考生,其英语基本满足在国外攻读硕士研究生非英语专业或从事学术研究工作的需要，该水平的英语也能满足他们在国内外从事专业和管理工作的基本需要。
语言知识：该级考生应能适当运用基本的语法知识，掌握7，000左右的词汇以及相关词组。
语言运用：(1)互动能力-该级考生能够就广泛的社会问题，以及在学术和专业方面用英语与外国人交谈，其语言符合英国的文化习惯。能积极主动地参加学术研讨或导师主持的课堂讨论。(2)接受能力-能够听懂英语讲座、学术发言、讨论或争论，同时还能听懂英文广播节目。能够分析性、评议性的阅读，并从具体目的出发确定有关资料的价值。(3)产出能力-能够较好地写出专业文章，诸如科研论文，试验报告，并能准备实用性文件。在学术研讨中，能够清楚地表达或论证与自己学科相关的内容。
口语:该级考生应能就各种话题自如地进行对话与讨论。能就其工作的多方面与他人进行深入广泛的交流，并能进行有效辩论，清楚地阐述自己的需求。
考生应能：(1)使用适当，准确的语言表达复杂的思想或概念，并能产生出较长的，内容连贯、达意的话语；(2)中途由于考虑措辞及语言的恰当性可以有正常的迟疑或停顿；(3)积极地交流，并能使用有效的交流补救措施。
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The Magic Io Personal Digital Pen
1 Check out the io Personal Digital Pen launched by Logitech：It’s a magic pen that can store everything you write and transfer it to your computer. And you don’t have to lug a hand-held device along with you for it to work.1
2 Logitech’s technology works like this：The pen writes normally, using normal ballpoint pen ink2. But while you are writing, a tiny camera inside the pen is also taking 100 snapshots per second of what you are doing3, mapping your writing via a patchwork of minute dots printed on the paper. All this information—the movement of your pen on the paper, basically — is then stored digitally inside the pen, whether you are writing notes or drawing complex diagrams. You can store up to 40 pages worth of doodles in the pen’s memory. As far as you are concerned4, you are just using a normal pen.
3 It is only when you drop the pen into its PC-connected cradle that the fun begins. Special software on your PC will figure out what you have done, and begin to download any documents you have written since the last time it was there. Depending on whether you have ticked certain boxes on the special notepad, it can also tell whether the document is destined to be an e-mail, a “to do” task, or a diagram to be ed into a word-processing document. Once the documents are downloaded you can view them, print them out or convert them to other formats.
4 The io Personal Digital Pen is a neat and simple solution to the problem of storing, sharing and retrieving handwritten notes, as well as for handling diagrams, pictures and other non-text doodling. You don’t have to carry a laptop along with you. All you have to do is just whip out the pen and the special paper and you are off5.
5 It is a great product because it does not force you to work differently—walking around with a screen strapped to your arm, or carrying with you extra bits and pieces. The pen is light and works like a normal pen if you need it to, while the special notepads look and feel like notepads. The only strange looks will be from people who are curious why you are writing with a cigar.
6 The io Personal Digital Pen also has potential elsewhere. FedEx6, for example, is introducing a version of the pen so that customers can fill out forms by hand — instead of punching letters into cumbersome devices. Once that data is digital more or less anything can be done with it — transferring it wirelessly to a central computer, for example, or via a hand-phone. Doctors could tran *** it their prescriptions direct to pharmacies, reducing fraud; policemen could send their reports back to the station, reducing paperwork.
词汇：
lug 吃力地携带 snapshot快照 patchwork 拼凑的东西，杂絵
doodle 信手写就的资料 cradle 座，支架 download 下载
tick 打上小记号 notepad 记事本 destined 预定的
laptop 笔记本电脑，膝上电脑 whip 猛地拔出 strap 用带扣住
cumbersome 麻烦的
pharmacy 药房
注释：
1.And you don’t have to lug a hand-held device along with you for it to work：to work是动词不定式，用作目的状语，修饰lugb for it是work的逻辑主语。it指代io Personal Digital Pen。
2.ballpoint pen ink：圆珠笔墨水
3.a tiny camera inside the pen is also taking 100 snapshots per second of what you are doing：is also taking 100 snapshots和of what you are doing之间插入了per second。
4.As far as you are concerned：就你而言
5.…you are off：……你就能开始工作了
6.FedEx：联邦快递公司
练习：
1.Paragraph 2 _________.
2.Paragraph 3 _________.
3.Paragraph 5 _________.
4.Paragraph 6 _________.
A A Friendly and Convenient Device
B Ways to Download the Stored Information
C Examples of Other Potential Applications of the Io Pen
D Customers’ Passion for the Io Pen
E FedEx the First User of the Io Pen
F Working Principles of the Io Personal Digital Pen
5.There is no need to learn how to use the io Personal Digital Pen because _________.
6.If you want to download what you have done with the magic pen, _________.
7.The magic pen is particularly convenient when you work away from home or office because _________.
8.No matter what you write or draw, _________
A you don’t have to carry your laptop along
B the information will be shown digitally on the pen
C FedEx has special software to store your information
D it works like an ordinary pen
E you simply place the pen into its computer-connected cradle
F the movement of your pen is recorded digitally inside the pen
答案与题解：
1.F 第二段介绍神奇笔的工作原理。笔内装有一个摄像头，把写的字或画的图转换为数码，存储在笔内的记忆装置里。
2.B 第三段介绍把神奇笔存储的信息下载到电脑中的过程，其中很重要的一个设备是将笔与电脑相连接的cradle(笔座)。
3.A 第五段介绍神奇笔的优越性，使用的方式和使用普通笔一样，不用携带显示屏，不用带附件。所以，这段的内容可以概括为A friendly and convenient device。
4.C 最后一段列举了有可能使用神奇笔的其他地方。
5.D 文章中多处都提到the io Personal Digital Pen用起来很方便，普通的笔怎么用，the io Personal Digital Pen也怎么用。因此，it works like an ordinary pen是答案。
6.E download和使用cradle的内容可在第三段之一句、第二句中找到。
7.A 题干中的convenient和when you work away from home or office提示我们要选A。第五段之一句说，外出时不用携带显示屏或附件。
8.F 第二段第三句是选F的依据。
译文：神奇的io私人数字笔
仔细看看由Logitech公司发明的io私人数字笔吧。这是一种神奇的笔。可以将你写的所有东西储存下来并转换到计算机上，而你在使用这种数字笔时却不必携带手持设备。
Logitech技术的工作原理如下：这种笔使用一种普通的圆珠笔墨水，和平常一样写字。但是当你写字时，笔内的一个极小的摄像头也在以每秒钟100张的速度对你所写的内容进行快速拍摄，通过印在纸上的'小点块拼出你所写的内容。然后，无论你是记笔记还是画复杂图表，所以的信息——基本上都是笔在纸上的移动——都将以数字形式存储于笔中。你可在笔的存储器中存储多达40页的资料。而对你来说，你只不过是在使用一支普通的笔而已。
只有当你将笔插入与PC机连接的笔座中时，有趣的事才真正开始。你的PC机的专用软件会估算出你所做之事，并下载你最新写下的所有文件。根据你是否在专用记事本的一些特定框里打对号，这种笔还可以辨别出文档是电子邮件、“待执行”人物还是要插入文字处理文档的图表。文档下载后，你就可以查看、打印或将其转换为其他形式。
io私人数字笔可妥善又简单地解决手写笔记的存储、共享和检索问题，也可处理图表、图片以及其他非文本资料。你不必携带电脑，你只需要拿出笔和专门用纸就能开始工作了。
这是一种很了不起的产品，因为你的工作不会因之产生任何麻烦——你不必携带显示屏，也不必携带任何附件。它非常轻便，如果你需要的话，也可以当普通笔来用，而这种专用记事本看起来摸起来都很像普通记事本。有些人会很好奇，不明白为什么你在用雪茄写字，这是唯一看起来令人费解的地方。
io私人数字笔在其他方面也很有潜力。例如，联邦快递公司正引进一种数字笔，从而用户可用手填写表格，而无需再费力劳神地打进机器中。如果数字为数字型，几乎所有事情都可由这种笔来完成——例如将数据通过无线方式或手机传输到中心计算机上。医生可将处方直接转到药房，减少了欺诈行为的发生。警察可将报告发回警察局，减少了文书工作。
