Question

You’ve just got a new computer and you are delighted with it. It is doing everything you want it to do. But what are you going to do with your old computer?

In the past consumers have often paid high prices for their old computers, but how much do you think these computers are worth now? Few people want to buy a computer which has become out-of-date or has been replaced by a newer mode. Unfortunately, the only thing you can do with a computer which you have had for five or six years is to throw it away with your other garbage.

What do many people do when they try to sell their old computers? Foolishly, they take into account its original cost and then reduce the price according to the age of the computer rather like a second-hand car. They forget that new computers are becoming cheaper every day, making old computers almost worthless. In 1985, for example, a good computer cost over $4,000. Then years later its owner would be lucky to get $ 400.

One well-known computer magazine recently made a list of 10 things to do with an old computer. One suggestion was to give it away to charity or give it as one of the small prizes in a competition. The final suggestion was to keep it in a safe place and hope that it would become a collector’s item in 15 or 20 years — though the article in the magazine admitted that in 15 or 20 years, there may be so many old computers that they will all be worthless.

41. What does the underlined part mean?

A. Fashionable              B. No longer fashionable       C. Second hand      D. Worthless

42. The best way to do with an old computer is ______.

A. to throw it away                                                 B. to evaluate it and sell it    

C. to donate it to the poor                                        D. keep it at home

43. How many ways are mentioned in the passage to do with an old computer?

A. 10                           B. 12                              C. 5                      D. 4

44. The title of the passage could be ______.      

A.Throw Away Your old computer                    

B.How Much Does An Old Computer Cost Now?

C.Your Old Computer

D.Useless Computers

45. What can you infer from the passage?

A. The old computer will be of great value if kept for years

B. People can get much money by selling old computers

C. You can get a used car at a very low price

D. To deal with old computers has bacame a common problem.

Answer 1

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