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"If your computer is down, just write me out a ticket. "

"I can' t write you out a ticket. The computer is the only one allowed to do so. "

I looked down on the computer and every passenger .was just standing there drinking coffee and staring at the black screen. Then I asked her, "What do all you people do?"

"We give the computer the information about your trip, and then it tells us whether you can fly with us or not. "

"So when it goes down, you go down with it. "

"That' s good, sir. "

"How long will the computer be down?" I wanted to know.

"I have no idea. Sometimes it' s down for 10 minutes, sometimes for two hours. There' s no way we can find out without asking the computer, and since it' s down it won' t answer us. "

After the girl told me they had no backup computer, I said. "Let' s forget the computer. What about your planes? They' re still flying, aren't they?"

"I couldn't tell without asking the computer. "

"Maybe I could just go to the gate and ask the pilot if he' s flying to Washington," I suggested.

"I wouldn't know what gate to send you to. Even if the pilot was going to Washington, he couldn't take you if you didn't have a ticket. "

"Is there any other airline flying to Washington within the next few hours?"

"I wouldn't know," she said, pointing at the dark screen. "Only ' IT' knows. It can' t tell me. "

By this time there were quite a few people standing in lines. The word soon spread to other travelers that the computer was down. Some people went white; some people started to cry and still others kicked their luggage.

31. The best title for the article is

A. When the Computer Is Down

B. The Most Frightening Words

C. The Computer of the Airport

D. Asking the Computer

32. What could the girl in the ticket office do for the passengers without asking the computer?

A. She could sell a ticket.

B. She could write out a ticket.

C. She could answer the passengers' questions.

D. She could do nothing.

33. why do you think they had not a backup computer?

A. Because it was easy down.

B. Because it was very expensive.

C. Because it was not advanced enough.

D. Because it was not as big as the main computer.

34. The last paragraph suggests that

A. a modern computer won' t be down

B. computers can take the place of humans

C. sometimes a computer may bring suffering to people

D. there will be great changes in computers

35. What did passengers do when the computer was down?

A. They left home and went home.

B. They drank coffee and stared at the black screen.

C. They began to talk to each other.

D. None above.

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31.A【解析】主旨题。根据文章句中的“0ur computer is down”(我们的电脑宕机了)及后面的文章关于机场电脑宕机后的一些对话内容可知，文章主要讲述的是机场电脑宕机后发生的一些事情，故本题选择A。

32.D【解析】细节题。根据文章中的对话“When it[computer]goes down.you go down with it.”(若电脑宕机了，你们也工作不了了。)可知，机场售票员什么都不能做。故本题选择D。

33.B【解析】主观题。没有备用电脑，有可能是因为设备比较贵。故本题选择B。

34.C【解析】推断题。根据文章后一段的描述：电脑死机，旅客们感到恐惧、忧郁、不安，故本题选择C。

35.B 【解析】细节题。文中第四段句“every passenger was just standing there drinking coffee and staring at the black screen.”(乘客们站在那儿，喝着咖啡，眼睛盯着那个黑掉了的屏幕)。故本题选择B。

Time is the biggest problem of most students. It becomes particularly difficult when you have to do library research for a term paper or report. Finding information in the library can take so much time that many students avoid it until the last possible minute.

Library research does not have to be time consuming. If you learn to use a library efficiently, you can save yourself a great deal of time.

The exercises in this section are designed to familiarize you with the library so that y阿ou can find the information you need quickly.

The first and the most important thing to know about a library is that when you cannot find something, ask a librarian for help. The librarians are paid not just to shelve books, but to provide information and assistance. The most helpful librarians are usually those who work in the reference room. They will help you get started on a term paper and even help you find material. There are two basic places to begin looking for information, the card catalog and the various periodical indexes. The card catalog is a list of all the books in the library. A periodical index is a list of all the magazine and journal articles written on any subject.

1. According to the author, finding information in the library needs

a lot of time, so students should __.

A. avoid it until the last possible minute

B. do library research

C. learn how to use it efficiently

D. save a great deal of time

2. It is the librarians’duty to do all the following things except__.

A. arranging and lending books

B. helping students locate the needed books

C. helping students find needed materials

D. helping students write their term paper

3. In what way could a student get familiarized with the library while reading this section?

A. By doing the exercises provided.

B. By asking the librarians.

C. By looking into the catalog part.

D. By reading in the reference room.

4. If you need to find a magazine article in the library, the best way for you to do is to __.

A. look in the card catalog

B. look in the periodical indexes

C. search through the bookshelves

D. go to the reference room

5. The passage is taken from an introduction of a chapter, and the title of the chapter is probably __.

A. Save Your Study Time

B. Using the Library for Your Term Paper

C. Using the Library Efficiently

D. Library__ An Information Source

【答案】1-5 CDABC

"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 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 internal

combustion 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 ' automobile literacy'. We just get in our cars and drive them. "

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

A. 79 million

B. 100 million

C. 30 million

D. 70 million

32. 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 a computer literate

D. one who is not able to use a typewriter

33. What is the first paragraph mainly about?

A. Recent predictions of computer-related jobs.

B. The wide of computers in schools.

C. The urgency of computers education.

D. Public interest in computers.

34. According to the author, the effective way to spread the use of computers is to teach

A. how to use computers

B. what computers use

C. where computers can be used

D. how computers work

35. From the text, we can infer that

A. computers will be easy to operate

B. automobile will be move comfortable

C. illiteracy rate will be down

D. computers will be set in automobiles

答案及解析

31.D【解析】事实细节题。根据“…present predictions are that by 1990，about tliny million jobs in the United States，or about thirty percent of the job market，will be computer-related”(据1990年的预测，美国的三千万份工作，约占所有工作的30%，会和电脑相关)。所以此题选择D。

32.D【解析】事实细节题。根据“Soon those people not educated in computer use will be compared to those who are print—illiterate today”可知不懂电脑的人将会比作今日的“打字文盲”，所以此题选择D。

33.C【解析】主旨大意题。阅读段可知信息时代电脑必不可少，不懂电脑相当于“文盲”，从而呼吁加强电脑教育。所以此题选择C。

34.A【解析】推理判断题。第三、四段中以现代人会骑摩托车和生意人学用打印机为例，告诉了我们学习电脑的有效方法就是学会如何使用电脑，所以此题选择A。

35.A【解析】推理判断题。根据“Knowing how to use a computer is what's going to be important.We don't talk about automobile literacy.We iust get in our cars and drive them”(知道如何使用电脑是很重要的…就像我们坐在车里开车一样)，由此可知学会操作电脑也不是很难的，所以此题选择A。

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