UNIVERSITY OF THE PEOPLE The Education Revolution
UoPeople
Alexandre Pinheiro
Question 38
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Passage 3: Read the following passages taken from the article by Neil Gaiman that appeared on 15 October 2013, in the book section of the online newspaper, The Guardian, available at https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/15/neil-gaiman-future-libraries. reading-daydreaming. The article is titled "Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming" and was last accessed on 30 January 2017. 1. Libraries are places that people go to for information. Books are only the tip of the information iceberg: they are there, and libraries can provide you freely and legally with books. More children are borrowing books from libraries than ever before - books of all
kinds: paper and digital and audio. But libraries are also, for example, places that people
who may not have computers, who may not have internet connections, can go online
without paying anything: hugely important when the way you find out about jobs, apply for
jobs or apply for benefits is increasingly migrating exclusively online. Librarians can help these people navigate that world. 2. I do not believe that all books will or should migrate onto screens: as Douglas Adams once pointed out to me, more than 20 years before the Kindle turned up, a physical book is like a shark. Sharks are old: there were sharks in the ocean before the dinosaurs. And the
reason there are still sharks around is that sharks are better at being sharks than anything else is. Physical books are tough, hard to destroy, bath-resistant, solar-operated, feel good in your hand: they are good at being books, and there will always be a place for them. They
ebooks, and audiobooks and DVDs and web content.
3. A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access
space. It's a place of safety, a haven from the world. It's a place with librarians in it. What the libraries of the future will be like is something we should be imagining now. 4. Literacy is more important than ever it was, in this world of text and email, a world of
comfortably, comprehend what they are reading, understand nuance, and make themselves understood.
5. Libraries really are the gates to the future. So it is unfortunate that, round the world, we observe local authorities seizing the opportunity to close libraries as an easy way to save money, without realising that they are stealing from the future to pay for today. They are closing the gates that should be open.
Questions based on Passage 3 -- "Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming"
18. The thesis for the selected passages is the best answer pair from the choices below:
and the topic is
Choose
Select one:
O a. Libraries are necessary / Books are important.
O b. Books are necessary / Libraries are important.
O c. Information is necessary / Books are necessary.
d. Libraries are importa