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The computer is fast, and never makes a mistake, while people are too slow, and full of mistakes sometimes. That’s what people often say when they talk about computers. For over a quarter of a century, scientists have been making better and better computers. Now a computer can do a lot of everyday jobs wonderfully. It is widely used in factories, hospitals, post offices and airports. A computer can report, decide and control in almost every field. Many computer scientists are now thinking of making the computer “think” like a man. With the help of a person, a computer can draw pictures, write music, talk with people, play chess, recognize voices, translate languages and so on. Perhaps computers will one day really think and feel. Do you think the people will be afraid when they find that the computer is too clever to listen to and serve the people?

1. The best title for this passage is ___ .

A. Computer           B. Computer scientists

C. The Future World        D. Talk with Computers

2. Which of the following can computers not do now?

A. Draw pictures.          B. Talk.

C. Invent new things.        D. Serve the people.

3. What will happen in the future?

A. Most jobs will be done by the computer.

B. People will no longer use computers.

C. Computers will be used only to talk with people.

D. All computers will be put into prison.

4. The passage is written to ___ .

A. warn people of the danger of the computer

B. tell people about the computer

C. tell people about computer scientists

D. show how to use the computer

 

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     Olaf Stapledon wrote a book called First and Last Men. in which he looked millions of years ahead. He
told of different men and of strange civilisations (文明), broken up by long 'dark ages' in between. In his
view, what is called the present time is no more than a moment in human history and we are just the First
Men. In 2,000 million years from now there will be the Eighteenth or Last Men.   
     However, most of our ideas about the future are really very short-sighted. Perhaps we can see some
possibilities for the next fifty years. But the next hundred? The next thousand? The next million? That's much
more difficult.   
     When men and women lived by hunting 50,000 years ago, how could they even begin to picture modern
life? Yet to men of 50,000 years from now, we may seem as primitive (原始的) in our ideas as the Stone-Age
hunters do to us. Perhaps through the cribe, These words, which I have just made up, have to stand for things
and ideas that we simply can't think of.   
     So why bother even to try imagining life far in the future? Here are two reasons. First unless we remember
how short our own lives are compared with the whole human history, we are likely to think our own interests
are much more important than they really are. If we make the earth a poor place to live because. we are
careless or greedy (贪婪) or quarrelsome. our grand-children will not bother to think of excuses for us.   
     Second, by trying to escape from present interests and imagine life far in the future, we may arrive at quite
fresh ideas that we can use ourselves. For example, if we imagine that in the future men may give up farming,
we can think of trying it now. So set you imagination free when you think about the future.
1. A particular mention made of Stapledon's book in the opening paragraph _______.  
A. serves as a description of human history   
B. serves an introduction to the discussion   
C. shows a disagreement of views   
D. Shows the popularity of the book
2. The text discusses men and women 50,000 years ago and 50,000 years from now
in order to show that ______.   
A. human history is extremely long   
B. life has changed a great deal   
C. it is useless to plan for the next 50 years   
D. it is difficult to tell what will happen in the future
3. Spundels and ballalators are used in the text to refer to _______.   
A. tools used in farming
B. ideas about modern life   
C. unknown things in the future
D. hunting skills in the Stone Age
4. According to the writer of the text, imagining the future will _______.   
A. serve the interests of the present and future generations   
B. enable us to better understand human history   
C. help us to improve farming   
D. make life worth living
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