London has a new magazine. But it is not printed on paper. Everyone who has a television can receive it because it is on TV. In order to read this magazine, you have to have a decoder（解码器）. Each page of it has its number, so you only have to dial（拨号）the number to choose which subject you want to read about. There are all kinds of information-everything is included from cooking to the latest sports news.
If you want to read the news, the first thing you have to do is to turn to the back page, which has an easy-to-remember page number, 100, for example. Then you start choosing what you want to read. The news is on page 101 to 109, so you put in the numbers and the news appears written across your screen. Perhaps you want to go out in the afternoon, so you press 181, and a brightly coloured weather map appears on the screen.
But the weather is terrible, so you decide to go shopping and dial 162 for a list of the week's best bargains（廉价商品）. But should you drive or take the train? To answer that question, you only have to press 189 for the traffic report. It is very simple to use. But probably the best thing about the service（服务）is that it is being updated（更新）all the time.
London already has three services. One, sent out by TV, is called ORACLE while the other two, on BBC, are called CEEFAX because they let you see facts. Although CEEFAX and ORACLE have been operating for some time, they have not been well publicized（宣传）. BBC engineers do not think that their idea will ever replace books and newspapers because they can be taken with you everywhere. But many people would agree that it is a breakthrough（突破）as great as the invention of printing, which could not just change our reading habits but our whole way of life.
【小题1】London has a new kind of magazine, which ________
| A．can be read on TV | B．is about TV programmes |
| C．everyone can read | D．has a decoder |
【小题2】If you, want to get a Christmas gift for your friend, put in the number to receive the shopping information.
【小题3】According to the passage, the magazine on TV is better than the printed one because ________.
| A．the cost of it is lower than that of the printed magazine |
| B．you can get the latest information all the time from it |
| C．each page of the magazine on TV has a page number |
| D．you can read it in the sitting-room or the bed room |
【小题4】What does the underlined word “they” refer to in the last paragraph?
| A．BBC engineers. | B．ORACLE and CEEFAX. |
| C．Books and newspapers. | D．Three services. |
【小题5】Which of the following is CORRECT according to the passage?
| A．BBC engineers think books and newspapers will disappear. |
| B．Many people like reading the magazine on TV. |
| C．Everybody knows about ORACLE and CEEFAX. |
| D．Reading on TV can't change people's way of life. |
