第三部分：阅读理解 (共20小题；每小题2分, 满分40分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。
A
The Kindle is ing! The Kindle is ing!
Amazon. corn will start selling its wireless electronic reader the Kindle in 100 countries, including China and most of Europe, from Monday, 19 October. The Kindle will cost $279 (189) globally. Amazon says 200,000 English-language books as well as over 85 newspapers and magazines will be available on the international device (设备).
The Kindle is popular with travellers who like the convenience of downloads and don't like carrying heavy books. Amazon says that for every 100 customers who buy a book in the US, some 48 now buy it as an e-book.
Our vision for Kindle is every book ever printed, in print or out of print, in every language, all available within 60 seconds, Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos told the Irish Times, one of the newspapers that will be available on the device. The international Kindle version will store as many as 1,500 books, read PDF files and allow users to make annotations.
Forrester Research predicts that three million e-reader devices will be sold in the US this year, up from an earlier estimate of two million. That is expected to double next year. The research group says that Amazon will take a 60 per cent market share this year, followed by Sony’s Reader at 35 per cent. In July, Credit Suisse estimated that Amazon's revenues from the Kindle could reach $420 million this year, representing 8.4 per cent of the pany's total ine.
There are rumours that Amazon's next step will be to turn the Kindle into a device for tasks like e-mailing, texting and surfing the Web, thus peting with a tablet puter reportedly being developed by Apple.
56. The underlined word revenues in Paragraph 4 can be replaced .
A. users B. books C. ine D. device
57. Which of the following is true.'?
A. The Kindle can be bought in China now.
B. We can use the Kindle to surf the Internet.
C. The books the Kindle offers are written in 20,000 kinds of languages.
D. This readers are sold in 99 countries of Europe.
58. From this passage we can infer .
A. Next year Amazon will sell 6 million readers
B. This year the pany's total ine reach 5000 million
C. In the US about 48% customers who buy a book use the Kindle
D. You can't deal with the information Amazon provides
59. Which one of the following will like the Kindle most9.
A. Professor. B. Students. C. Traveller. D. Businessmen.56---59 CACC
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解析：
56．C(解析：猜测词义题。根据下文representing 8.4 per cent of the pany’s total ine．”可知答案为C。)
57．A(解析：判断题。根据第一段“including China and most of Europe，from Monday，19 October”可知D错，A正确。根据第一段 “200,000 English-language books可知C错。根据最后一段“Amazon’s next step will be可知B错，选A。)
58．C(解析：推断题。根据第二段, “every 100 customers who buy a book in the US，some 48 now buy it as all e-book．”可知答案选C。)
59，C(解析：细节题。根据第二段第一句话可知答案为C。)