Question

    There are hundreds of publishers across the world and millions of books get printed every year. Moreover, a book can be printed by several polishers.1.

To overcome the problem of identifying books, publishers have come up with a unique numbering system. For instance, if 50,000 copies of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes are printed by a publisher at one time (called an edition), all of them are identified by one number code. 2. your address begins with your house number, street, locality, state and ends with a statement of the country where you live. An ISBN book number achieves a similar aim of identifying and tracing a book

If you pick up any book, turn it around you will see a number which looks something like this — ISBN 90-70002-34-5. This is called the ISBN number. ISBN stands for International Standard Book Numbering. 3. The ISBN number is divided into four groups that are separated by a space or a hyphen.

The first part of the ISBN identifies the country and is called the Group Identifier. 4.The second part is called the Publisher Prefix. The Publisher Prefix is used to identify the publisher of the book. The publisher prefix may contain up to seven digits.

The third part identifies the title and the edition of the book and so is called the Title Identifier, which may consist of up to six digits. 5.Since you can have the same book from the same publisher but with different editions, the Title Identifier helps to differentiate between them.

The fourth and the final part is called the Check digit, a single digit (from 0 to 9) used to check whether the given ISBN number is correct or wrong. If an ISBN number is incorrect, this means that the book is a version printed illegally.

A.It may consist of up to five digits.

B.So what can the ISBN number do for you?

C.This makes the task of identifying a book very difficult.

D.It is a numbering system that is used to describe the book.

E.Book publishers often come out with newer and updated versions of earlier books.

F.The number Code is your home — address that can only be shared by your parents and

G.The ISBN numbering system helps book stores and book publishers to handle categorize to handle, categorize, store and identify books easily.

Answer

1.C

2.F

3.D

4.A

5.E

【解析】

本文是一篇选句填空，文章讲述了为了解决图书识别的问题，出版商提出了一个独特的编号系统（ISBN书号系统）。

1.文章衔接题。根据前文Moreover, a book can be printed by several polishers.可知，而且一本书可以被几家抛光厂印刷出来，C项：This makes the task of identifying a book very difficult.这使得识别一本书的任务非常困难。符合文意。故选C项。

2.联系下文题。根据下文your address begins with your house number, street, locality, state and ends with a statement of the country where you live.可知，你的地址以你的门牌号、街道、地点、州开始，以你居住的国家的声明结束，F项：The number Code is your home — address that can only be shared by your parents and号码是你的家庭住址，家庭住址只能由你的父母分享和……。符合文意。故选F项。

3.语境辨析题。根据前文ISBN stands for International Standard Book Numbering.可知，ISBN代表国际标准图书编号，D项：It is a numbering system that is used to describe the book.这是一个用来描述书的编号系统。符合文意。故选D项。

4.联系下文题。根据下文The Publisher Prefix is used to identify the publisher of the book. The publisher prefix may contain up to seven digits.可知出版者前缀用于标识图书的出版者，发布者前缀最多可包含七位数字，A项：It may consist of up to five digits.它最多可以由五位数字组成。符合文意。故选A项。

5.逻辑推断题。根据下文Since you can have the same book from the same publisher but with different editions, the Title Identifier helps to differentiate between them.可知由于同一出版商的同一本书有不同的版本，因此标题标识符有助于区分它们，E项：Book publishers often come out with newer and updated versions of earlier books.图书出版商经常出版较新和更新版本的早期书籍。符合文意。故选E项。