【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 ’t have to pay any tax on the first 163。4500 you make per year. Try advertising your room on Roomspare or Roommateeasy.Make money during special eventsDon’t want a fulltime lodger? Then rent on a shortterm basis. If you live in the capital, renting a room out during the Olympics or other big events could bring in money, Grashpadder can advertise your space. Live on set Renting your home out as a “film set” could earn you hundreds of pounds a day, depending on the film production pany and how long your home is needed. A quick search on the Internet will bring up dozens of online panies that allow you to register your home for free—but you will be charged if your home gets picked.Use your roof You need the right kind of roof, but some energy panies pay the cost of fixing solar equipment(around￡14,000), and let you use the energy produced for nothing. In return, they get paid for unused energy fed back into the National Grid. However, you have to sign a 25year agreement with the supplier, which could prevent you from changing the roof.45. If you earn ￡5000 from renting a room in one year, the tax you need to pay will be based on ______.A. ￡800 B. ￡500 C. ￡4500 46. Where can you put an advertisement to rent out a room during a big event?A. On Letpark. B. On Roomspare.C. On Grashpadder. D. On Roommateeasy.47. If you want to use energy free, you have to_____.A. sign an agreement with the governmentB. pay around ￡14,000 for the equipmentC. sell the roof to some energy paniesD. keep the roof unchanged for within 25 years48. For whom the text most probably written?A. Lodgers. B. Advertisers.C. House owners. D. Online paniesCThe pound new Library of Birmingham（LoB）will be the most visible sign of the way the city is accepting the digitalization（數(shù)字化）of everyday life.Set to open in 2013, the 163。188m LoB is already beginning to tale shape next to the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, with which it will share some equipment.As digital media（媒介）is important to its idea. the project is already providing chances for some of the many small new local panies working at the new technologies.Brian Gambles, the LoB project director, says it is about giving people the right tools for learning,“The aim is to mix the physical with the digital. Providing 24hour services which can be used through, many different ways. It is important to enable us to reach more people, more effectively.”The digital library will, he says, be as important as the physical one, allowing the distant use of the services, making sure that it is never closed to the public.Even before the LoB is plete, the public has been able to go online to visit the Virtual（虛擬的）LoB, designed by Baden, the Birmingham virtual worlds specialists. Not only have the public been able to learn about LoB, but the virtual one has also enabled those working on the LoB to understand the building and how it will work before it even opens.Two other small Birminghambased digital panies are working on the LoB projects. Substrat, a digital design pany, is developing what it calls an example of an “enlarged reality” project. It is about the use of an exciting smart phone, an important part of the which is the early stages of development is an online library of figures of the city being built up by a content pany in Cahoots, in which users with the encouraged to add to and ment on the material.
Gambles says: “Technology will enable us to make the library’s and services open to citizens as sever before.”
underline part “its idea” in Paragraph 3 refers to the idea of____
A. the equipment B. the project
C. the digital media D. the physical library
visiting the Virtual LoB, the public can_____
A. get a general idea of the LoB
B. meet more worldfamous experts
C. learn how to put up a library building
D. understand how the specialists work on the project
of the following is true of the LoB when it opens?a. It offers better learning toolsb. It reaches users in different ways c. It provides users with smart phoned. It allows users to enrich its materiale. It gives nonstop physical and digital servicesA. a, b, d B. a, c ,e C. b, c, d D. b, d, e
ext more from .A. a put book B. a library guideC. a handbook D. newspaper reportD“Experience may possibly be the best teacher, but it is not a particular good teacher.” You might think that Winston