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Do you ever call long distance from a pay phone?
You dial the number, and then you hear something like: “sixty cents, please. Please deposit(投硬币)sixty cents 1 the first three minutes.”
If you are placing the call in New York State, don’t try to ask the operator a question. There is no one on the 2 with you. The voice you hear comes from a computer. It has vocabulary of sever words in its memory. This program is known 3 the Auto mastic Coin Telephone Service.
The words and numbers are first recorded, each word and number by itself, by an actress. The sounds are then changed 4 electronic signals and 5 in a computer memory circuit(电路). The circuit is hooked(连接)into the computer that controls all the calls made from pay 6 .
While you 7 your call, the computer senses each of the numbers. When you finish, it calculates the cost, and produces the voice that you hear. As soon as you deposit the 8 , the computer automatically connects you call.
Have you ever called information and heard and operator 9 : “Information. 10 I help you?”
You tell the operator a name and he 11 she gives you the phone number. 12 the past, the operator would have to thumb(翻阅)through the telephone directory(电话号码簿)to 13 up the number. Now, a new computer system provides this information 14 more quickly. Sometimes it can find the number even if you misspell the name.
Information operators 15 use this new system type in the name you give on tee computer terminal. In a flash, the computer displays the name and telephone number 16 the CRT(显像管). At the same time, the computer calls up nine similar names. In case you spelled the name 17 ,the operator may still be able to find.
All new phones are also entered 18 this computer system. The information operators, therefore, have the up-to-the-minute listing. At the end of the year, the computer is hooked to a machine 19 automatically sets the type for the new telephone 20 . The directory is then printed from this type accurately(准确的),quickly , and at a great savings in cost.
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阅读理解
When I asked my daughter which item she would keep: the phone, the car, the cooker, do without the phone entirely, which makes me unusual. Because the telephone is changing our lives more than any other piece of technology.
Point 1: The telephone creates the need to communicate, in the same way that more roads create more traffic. My daughter comes home from school at 4:00 pm and then spends all hour on the phone talking to the very people she has been at school with all day. If the phone did not exist, would she have anything to talk about?
Point 2: The mobile phone means that we are never alone. The mobile saved my life, says Crystal Johnstone. She had an accident in her Volvoon the A45 between Otiey and Skipton. Trapped inside, she managed to make the call that brought the ambulance (救护车) to her rescue.
Point 3: The mobile removes our secret. It allows marketing manager of Haba Deutsh. Carl Nicolaisen was able to ring his sales staff all round the world at any time of day to ask where they are, where they are going, and how their last meeting went.
Point 4．The telephone separates us. Antonella Bramantein Rome says, “We worked in separate offices but I could see him through the window. It was easy to get his number. We were so near but we didn't meet for the first two weeks!”
Point 5．The telephone allows us to reach out beyond our own lives. Today we can talk to several complete strangers simultaneously (同声地) on chat－lines (at least my daughter does. I wouldn’t know what to talk about). We can talk across the world. We can even talk to astronauts (if you know any) while they’re space-walking. And with the phone line hooked up to the computer, we can access (连接) the Internet, the biggest library on the earth.
1．How do you understand “Point 1．The telephone creates the need to communicate”?
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A．People don’t communicate without telephone.
B．People communicate because of the creating of the telephone.
C．People communicate more since telephone has been created. ．
D．People communicate more because of more traffic.
2．Which of the following best shows people’s attitude towards mobile phones?
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A．Mobile phones help people deal with the emergency.
B．Mobile phones bring convenience as well as little secret to people.
C．Mobile phones are so important and should be encouraged. ．
D．Mobile phones are part of people's life.
3．Which points do you think support the idea that phones have improued people's life?
a．Point 1. b．Point 2. c．Point 3. d．Point 4. e. Point 5．
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4．It is possible to talk to several complete strangers simultaneously through ________ .
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A．the TV screen
B．a fax machine
C．the phone line hooked up to the computer
D．a microphone
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