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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

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3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 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4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5题

Some people just won't shut up. That's probably been true for a long time—maybe even hundr

eds of thousands of years.

Computer reconstructions of ancient skulls (头骨) show that our ancestors had ears built like ours as far back as 350,000 years ago. The ears of social mammals(哺乳动物) are typically designed to recognize sounds made by fellow species members. "So, humanlike ears suggest humanlike speech", say researchers from Spain.

Anthropologists(人类学家) don't know for sure when people started talking. To get a better idea, the new study focused on a group of fossils(化石) from a place in Spain called Sima de los Huesos. The fossils belong to a species(人种) called Homo heidelbergensis. Modem people did not evolve from H. heidelbergensis, but an ancient group called Neandertals might have.

Using a computerized scanner(扫描机), the researchers measured ear structures on the remains. Then, they used information about living people to make three-dimensional (三维的)computer models of what the ancient ears looked like. Finally, they measured how sound would pass through the model ears.

The results showed that the ears could handle almost exactly the stone range of sounds that our ears can today. The researchers suggest that hearing and talking developed in a common ancestor shared by both Neandertals and modern people.

Other experts are more skeptical(怀疑的). Some studies have turned up conflicting results about the ears and vocal chords(声带) of Neandertals. And anyway, hearing could have evolved long before talking. The two don't necessarily go together.

If it's true that our ancestors could talk more than 350,000 years ago, that brings up another question. What kinds of things did they talk about？

"Social mammals" in the second paragraph means "______".

A．our ancestors

B．a kind of ancient human tribe

C．Homo heidelbergensis

D．Neandertals

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第6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.

(37)

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7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8题

In many parts of the world, a young person's husband or wife is chosen by the person's par

ents. In the United States, the choice is usually made by the young people themselves. A few people now pay private companies to help them in their search for the right husband or wife. Such a company collects a great deal of information about each man and woman who is interested in marrying and puts the information on a card, which is called an IBM card All the cards are then classified (分类) by a computer, a machine which organizes the cards into groups. The theory is that such a machine can make the best decision about matching the right, nab with the right woman because machines are not influenced by emotions(情感). Mr. Walker and Miss Brown are such a couple. When they first, net, they did not have much to talk of since everything was written on their cards. They are so perfectly matched that they seem to have everything in common. For instance, they have the same interests, future plans and even living styles.

This passage is mainly about _______.

A．how to choose a husband or a wife in America

B．the computers in private companies

C．a new way that some people choose the right husband or wife in America

D．people who are interested in computers

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第9题

"...We are not about to enter the Information Age, but instead are rather well into it." P

resent 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 American high schools owned one or two computers for student use. In the fall of 1985, a new study showed 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". 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 some degree of" knowing" about computers, but knowing what？ The present 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 important 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 able to use a motor car without the slightest knowledge of how the internalcombustion engine (内燃机) 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 fix our mind 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 'auto- mobile literacy'. We just get in our cars and drive them."

The underlined part "print illiterate" in the text refers to ______.

A．one who has never learnt printing

B．one who has never learnt to read

C．one who is not computer literate

D．one who is not able to use a typewriter

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第10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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