Computer people talk lots about the need for other people to become" computer-literate ".

第1题

C Computer people talk lots about the need for other people to become " computer literate

C

Computer people talk lots about the need for other people to become " computer literate " . But

not all experts think it a good idea.

Onepioneer, in particular, who disagrees, is David Debut, the founder of Computer town

UK. Though many people see this as a suc'cessful attempt to bring people closer to the computer,

David does not see it that way. He says that Computer town UK was formed for just the opposite

reason, to bring computers to people and make them "people literate".

David Debut thinks Computer towns are most successful when tied to a computer club but he

thinks there is an important difference between the two. The clubs are for people who have some

computer knowledge already. This frightens away non-experts, who want to go to Computer towns

where there are computers for them to operate, with experts to encourage them and answer any

questions they ask. They are not told what to do, they find out. The computer experts have to learn

not to tell people about computers, but have to be able to answer all questions people ask. People needn ' t leam computer terms(术语) . But the experts have to explain in plain language. The computers are becoming " people literate" .

64. Which of the following is David Debut ' s idea on the relationship between people and com-

puters？

[ A] Computer learning should be made easier.

[ B ] There should be more computer clubs for experts.

[ C ] People should work harder to master computer use.

[D] Computers should be made cheaper so that people can afford them.

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第2题

听力原文： For good or bad, computers are now part of our daily lives. With the price of a

small home computer now being lower, experts predict that before long all schools and businesses and most families in the rich parts of the world will own a computer of some kind. Among the general public, computers arouse strong feelings—people either love them or hate them.

The computer lovers talk about how useful computers can be in business, in education and in the home—apart from all the games, you can do your accounts on them, use them to control your central heating, and in some places even do your shopping with them. Computers, they say, will also bring some leisure, as more and more unpleasant jobs are taken over by computerized robots.

The haters, on the other hand, argue that computers bring not leisure but unemployment. They worry, too, that people who spend all their time talking to computers will forget how to talk to each other. And anyway, they ask, what's wrong with going shopping and learning languages in a classroom with real teachers？ But their biggest fear is that computers may eventually take over from human beings altogether.

What does this passage mainly talk about？

A．Computers have become part of our daily lives.

B．Computers have advantages as well as disadvantages.

C．People have different attitudes to computers.

D．More and more families will own computers.

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第3题

Computer people talk lots about the need for other people to become "computer literate ".

But not all experts think it a good idea.

One pioneer, in particular, who disagrees, is David Debut, the founder of Computer town UK. Though many people see this as a successful attempt to bring people closer to the computer, David does not see it that way. He says that Computer town UK was formed for just the opposite reason, to bring computers to people and make them "people literate".

David Debut thinks Computer towns are most successful when tied to a computer club but he thinks there is an important difference between the two. The clubs are for people who have some computer knowledge already. This frightens away non-experts, who want to go to Computer towns where there are computers for them to operate, with experts to encourage them and answer any questions they ask. They are not told what to do, they find out. The computer experts have to learn not to tell people about computers, but have to be able to answer all questions people ask. People needn' t learn computer terms(术语). But the experts have to explain in plain language. The computars are becoming "people literate".

Which of the following is David Debut' s idea on the relationship between people and computers？

A．Computer learning should be made easier.

B．There should be more computer clubs for experts.

C．People should work harder to master computer use.

D．Computers should be made cheaper so that people can afford them.

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第4题

听力原文：For good or bad, computers are now part of our daily lives. With the price of a s

听力原文： For good or bad, computers are now part of our daily lives. With the price of a small home computer now being lower, experts predict that before long all schools and businesses and most families in the rich parts of the world will own a computer of some kind. Among the general public, computers amuse strong feelings--people either love them or hate them.

The computer lovers talk about how useful computers can rein business, in education and in the home--apart from all the games, you can do your accounts on them, use them to control your control heating, and in some places even do your shopping with them. Computers, they say, will also bring some leisure, as more and more unpleasant jobs are taken over by computerized robots.

The haters, on the other hand, argue that computers bring not leisure but unemployment. They worry, too, that people who spend all their time talking to computers will forget how to talk to each other. And anyway, they ask, what's wrong with going shopping and learning languages in classroom with real teachers？ But their biggest fear is that computers may eventually take over human, beings altogether.

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A．Computers have become part of our daily lives.

B．Computers have advantages as well as disadvantages.

C．People have different attitudes to computers.

D．More and more families will own computers.

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第5题

We live in a society which there is a lot of talk aboutS1.______science, but I would say t

We live in a society which there is a lot of talk about S1.______

science, but I would say that there are not 5 percent of the

people who are equipped of schooling, including college, to S2.______

understand scientific reasoning. We are more ignorant of

science as people with comparable education in Western Europe. S3.______

There are a lot of kids who know everything about

computers—how to build them, how to take them apart,

and how to write programs for games.

So if you ask them to explain the principles of physics S4.______

that have gone into creating the computer, you don't have S5.______

the faintest idea. The failure to understand science leads to

such things like the neglect of human creative power. It al- S6.______

so takes rise to blurring of the distinction between science S7.______

and technology. Lots of people don't distinguish from the two. S8.______

Science is the production of new knowledge that can be

applied or not, and technology is the application of knowledge

to the production of some products, machinery or the like.

The two are really very different, and people who have the

faculty for one very seldom have a faculty for another. S9.______

Science in itself is harmless, more or less. But as

soon as it can provide technology, it is net necessarily S10.______

harmful. No society has yet learned to forecast the consequences

of new technology, which can be enormous.

【S1】

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第6题

We live in a society in there is a lot of talk about【M1】______science, but I would say tha

We live in a society in there is a lot of talk about 【M1】______

science, but I would say that there are not 5 percent of

the people who are equipped with schooling, including

college, to understand scientific reasoning. We are

more ignorant of science as people with comparable 【M2】______

educations in Western Europe.

There are a lot of kids who know everything about

Computers who to build them, how to take them apart,

how to write programs for games. So if you ask them 【M3】______

to explain about the principles of physics that have gone 【M4】______

into creating the computer, you don't have the faintest idea. 【M5】______

The failure to understand science leads to such

things like the neglect of the human creative power. 【M6】______

It also takes rise to a blurring(模糊) of the distinction 【M7】______

between science and technology. Lots of people don't

differ between the two. Science is the production 【M8】______

of new knowledge that can be applied or not, since 【M9】______

technology is the application of knowledge to the

production of some products, machinery or the like.

The two are really very different, and people who have

the faculty for one very seldom have a faculty for the other.

Science in itself is harmless, more or less. But as

soon as it can provide technology, it is not necessarily

harmful. No society has yet learned how to forecast the 【M10】______

consequences of new technology, which can be enormous.

【M1】

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第7题

Futurists love computers. After all,40 years ago electronic digital computers didn't exist

; today microchips as tiny as a baby's fingernail are making all sorts of tasks faster and easier. Surely the future holds still more miracles.

Some of the computer experiments now going on inspire exciting visions of the future. For example, scientists are working on devices that can electronically perform. some sight and hearing functions, which could make life easier for the blind and deaf. They're also working on artificial arms and legs that respond to the electric impulses produced by the human brain. Scientists hope that some day a person who's lost an arm could still have near-normal brain control over an artificial arm.

Video games, computerized special effects in movies, and real-life training machines now being used by the US Army are causing some people to predict new educational uses for computers. Computers could some day be used to simulate travel to other planets, to explore the ocean floor, or to look inside an atom.

Experiments with electronic banking and shopping inspire predictions that these activities will soon be done from home computer terminals. Cars, too, might be equipped with computers to help drivers find their way around (Honda has one in an experimental car) or to communicate with home and office computers. Many people, including handicapped workers with limited ability to move around, already are working at home using computer terminals. Each terminal is connected to a system at a company's main office. Some futurists say the day may come when few people will have to leave home to go to work -- they'll just turn on a terminal

A growing number of factories such as the General Motors Plant in Newark, Delaware, "hire" computerized robots to perform. tasks such as spot welding. Some executives get a gleam in their eyes as they envision the spread of these "perfect workers" -- no coffee breaks, no strikes, and no vacations or sick days.

These modern and potential computer uses are possible because of the silicon microchip.

These chips, which have become increasingly complex since their beginning in 1959, contain a network of information pathways. Electronic impulses travel along the paths. The plans for a chip look much like a city street plan and can be as large as a football field. It can take as long as three months to complete a new chip design. Chips are used to store information, too. An entire "computer" can be put onto one chip -- called a microprocessor.

As chips become even more complex, easier to make, and less costly, futurists predict limitless possibilities. A group of Japanese scientists is working on a new generation of computers, which they hope will be able to understand vocal instructions, talk back to their users, and automatically try out alternate solutions to a problem to come up with the best answer.

Some people say that the humans of the future will never be without their companion -- computers. Predicting the future can be tricky, of course. In 1948 an IBM study predicted that there would never be enough demand for computers to justify going into the business!

What is the purpose of the passage？

A．To tell the readers what computers will look like in the future.

B．To show the close relations between man and computers.

C．To tell the readers how important silicon microchips are.

D．To talk about the possible future uses of computers.

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第8题

Passage Three:Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.“... We are not about

to enter the Information Age but instead are rather well into it.” Present predictions are that by 1990, about thirty million jobs in the United States, or about thirty percent of the job market, will be computer-related. In 1980, only twenty-one percent of all United States high schools owned one or more computers for student use. In the fall of 1985, a new survey revealed that half of United States secondary schools have fifteen or more computers for student use. And now educational experts, administrators, and even the general public are demanding that all students become “computer literate (慢点…的).” “By the year 2000 knowledge of computers will be necessary in over eighty percent of all occupations. Soon those people not educated in computer use will be compared to those who are print illiterate today.”

What is “computer literacy”？ The term itself seems to imply soon extent of “knowing” about computers, but knowing what. The current opinion seems to be that this should include a general knowledge of what computers are, plus a little of their history and something of how they operate.

Therefore, it is vital that educators everywhere take a careful look not only at what is being done, but also at what should be done in the field of computer education. Today most adults are capable of utilising a motor vehicle without the slightest knowledge of how the internal-combustion engine works. We effectively use all types of electrical equipment without being able to tell their histories or to explain how they work. Business people for years have made good use of typewriters and adding machines, yet few have ever known how to repair them. Why, then, attempt to teach computers by teaching how or why they work？

Rather, we first must concentrate on teaching the effective use of the computer as the tool is.

“Knowing how to use a computer is what’s going to be important, we don’t talk about ‘automobile literacy. ‘ We just get in our cars and drive them.”

第31题：In 1990, the number of jobs having nothing to do with computers in the United States will be reduced to ________.

A) 79 million

B) 30 million

C) 70 million

D) 100 million

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第9题

One of the most powerful tools ever developed is the P. C., the personal computer. One of

the companies important to the history of the P. C. is Apple Computer. Apple is based in Cupertino, California. Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs started-the company in nineteen-seventy-six. Mister Wozniak designed an early personal computer, the Apple One. At that time, people who wanted to work with computers often built their own, or used larger systems. Early personal computers had limited uses. Users had to write commands. This was true of the Apple One. But other Apple computers operated with a system known as a graphical user interface. Users chose from little pictures called icons.

Researchers at Xerox designed such a system. But Apple was the first to make it popular. Today most personal computers use icons. Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs tried to sell their ideas to other companies. They were rejected. But soon they found investors. Apple began to sell shares to the public in nineteen-eighty. The company became worth more than one-thousand-million dollars.

In nineteen-eighty-one, International Business Machines began to sell a personal computer that many people bought. I. B. M. was the biggest computer company in the world. But Apple was known for its creativity. In nineteen-eighty-four, it released the first Macintosh. These computers were simple to use.

Over the years, Apple gained a following of loyal users. But then lower-priced computers appeared. These used the Windows operating system made by Microsoft. Most personal computers today use Windows. Apple does not compete with makers of low-cost computers. Many of its computers are designed for special uses like video and music production. The brain of a computer is the processor. For years, Apple used processors made by Motorola. In two-thousand-and-three, Apple joined with I. B. M. to create a faster processor. But Apple still has only a small share of the computer market.

Now, one of its most popular products is the iPod. This is a small music player. It can store up to one-thousand songs. Apple says it sold more than eight-hundred-thousand iPods in the three months ending in March. Apple reported a profit of forty-six million dollars for the period. It says the iPod greatly helped sales.

What does the passage mainly talk about？

A．Apple Computer Company.

B．Cooperation between Apple and IBM.

C．Apple's new product iPod.

D．The history of P. C..

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第10题

If you asked people what the most important invention has been,many would say the printing press

If you asked people what the most important invention has been,many would say the printing press. Others _1_ say the wheel.But even though it’s_2_whether the appearance of the printing press affected the course of history more than the wheel，the printing press _3_ within the top two or three inventions in history. _4_ the telephone, the television,the radio, and the computer,the written word was the only way to _5_ ideas to people too far away to talk with.Until the 6th or 7th century,all books had to be written _6_.Creating a book was difficult，and very few existed.Therefore，very few people read books.

In the 6th and 7th centuries, the Chinese invented a way to print pages by _7_ characters and pictures on wooden，ivory，or clay blocks.They would print a page from the block by putting _8_ on the block and pressing paper onto the ink.This _9_ is called letterpress printing.The invention of letterpress printing was a great advance in communication _10_ each block could be inked many times and many copies of each page could be made.Many books could now be made.Therefore，many people could read the same book.

1.A.might B.ought to C.had to D.should

2.A.variable B.agreeable C.reliable D.debatable

3.A.lists B.ranges C.ranks D.covers

4.A.Now that B.No longer C.Long before D.Since then

5.A.invent B.communicate C.generalize D.motivate

6.A.by hand B.at heart C.on foot D.in mind

7.A.drawing B.painting C.writing D.carving

8.A.chalk B.oil C.ink D.crystal

9.A.definition B.action C.movement D.process

10.A.when B.because C.although D.if

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