A

     Almost every day,we use a computer to search information,send e-mails and play games. But everything would not go so well without its friend :small,clickable mouse.

     In 1968,US inventor Douglas Engelbart showed a cute machine to the public. It was a small wooden box with two metal wheels to roll back and forth. On top of it,there was a small red button that you could click. The machine was connected to the computer with a cable that looked like a “tail”. That's how it got its name “mouse”. This was the first mouse that could fit into a user's hand 

      Engelbart wanted computers to be more user-friendly. And he certainly succeeded. The coming of the mouse changed the way in which humans work together with computers. Instead of typing orders with a keyboard,users can now go faster with a mouse.

     But the mouse didn,t become popular until more than 10 years later. Apple's CEO Steve Jobs showed Applet Lisa computers with a mouse during the early 1980s. Since then,the mouse has been made in many shapes,sizes and colors,but allbased on the idea of Engelbart^ design.

Although there are touchpads (觸摸板) and touch-sensitive screens,the mouse is still an important part of all modern computers.


() 1. The mouse first became popular .

   A. in 1968   B. during the early 1980s

   C. in the 1990s   D. during the 2000s


() 2. One advantage of the mouse is that .

   A. you don't need a keyboard

   B. it gives you a different way to type

   C. it can free both of your hands

   D. it can help you operate computers faster


() 3. With this passage,the writer hopes to .

   A. introduce the inventor of the mouse

   B. show how computers have changed our lives

   C. introduce the development of the mouse

   D. tell us how touchpads have taken the place of the mouse

A

閱讀提示:本文介紹了鼠標名字的來源、功能及其發(fā)展的歷史。

1. B數(shù)字推理題。由1968年首次面世，10多年后流行，可知是20世紀80年代。所以選   B.

2. D細節(jié)理解題。由第三段最后一句“Instead of typing orders with a keyboard,users can now go faster with a mouse. ”可知答案為   D.

3. C判斷推理題。由整篇文章可知鼠標的發(fā)展是本篇的主題，因此答案為   C.

題目來源：2016年啟東中學作業(yè)本英語專項訓練英語3閱讀理解和完形填空 > Week 18 Science and technology 科學和科技

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