Question

Although computers used to be large, expensive and difficult to use, they have been made smaller, cheaper and easier to use. As a result, more people have been buying computers for their homes and businesses. They are used to record information and make difficult things easy.

Let’s look at some of the many ways computers may affect(影響) your life.

Want to get the best treatment at hospitals? Your doctors at hospitals have been greatly helped by computers to get information about patients. It is possible for doctors from different hospitals to read the records of patients, discuss them and make decisions on the best treatment. It would, at one time, take them hours and days to do so.

Want to talk to your friends both at home and abroad? Then it’s necessary to connect your computer to the Internet and set up your own e-mail letter box. You can then collect and send mails in seconds. It will be a waste of time and money to post your letters.

Want to get advice from Michael Jordan on how to play basketball like a NBA super star? Now it is possible to find out what it is on the Internet.

But if you think you have entered the information age because you have the chance to use the Internet, you are wrong. The reason is quite a simple one:over 98 percent of the information on the Internet is in English. The information on-line won’t be helpful to you unless you can use English freely.

1.According to the writer, computers in the past were ____.

A. small B. easy to use

C. cheap D. dear

2.Doctors at hospitals use computers for all the following except ____.

A. get information about patients

B. make decisions on the best treatment

C. talk to their friends at home and abroad

D. read the records of patients

3.In the fourth paragraph, the writer suggests we should ____.

A. use the Internet to send and receive e-mails

B. put up a letter box in front of the house

C. go to the post office to post letters

D. all of the above

4.The Chinese meaning of the underlined word “treatment” in the third paragraph is ____.

A. 治療 B. 對(duì)待 C. 藥品 D. 病房

5.Which one will be the best title of the passage?

A. Modern Computers B. Computers In Your Life

C. Learn English Well D. Why Don’t You Buy A Computer?

 

Answer 1

1.D

2.C

3.A

4.A

5.B

【解析】

試題解析：電腦影響了我們生活的方方面面，比如醫(yī)生通過電腦上記錄的病人信息更好地給予治療，我們可以便捷的與海內(nèi)外朋友取得聯(lián)系，但是網(wǎng)絡(luò)中提供的信息多數(shù)是英文，我們也需要與時(shí)俱進(jìn)熟練掌握英語。

1.細(xì)節(jié)理解和猜測(cè)詞義題。根據(jù)Although computers used to be large, expensive and difficult to use 得知過去的電腦個(gè)大，昂貴，很難操作，dear是昂貴的意思，選D。

2.推理判斷題。根據(jù)第三段可以找到A、B、D三個(gè)選項(xiàng)的信息，根據(jù)排除法選C。

3.細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)Want to talk to your friends both at home and abroad? Then it’s necessary to connect your computer to the Internet and set up your own e-mail letter box. You can then collect and send mails in seconds. 和國內(nèi)外朋友聊天，網(wǎng)上建立郵箱提供了快捷廉價(jià)的方式，作者建議采取收發(fā)郵件的方式，選A。

4.猜測(cè)詞義題。根據(jù)Want to get the best treatment at hospitals? Your doctors at hospitals have been greatly helped by computers to get information about patients.醫(yī)院通過電腦更好地了解病人情況，給予病人最好的治療，得知?jiǎng)澗�詞是治療，選A。

5.最佳標(biāo)題。根據(jù)Let’s look at some of the many ways computers may affect(影響) your life.“人們生活中的電腦”是最切合主題的標(biāo)題，選B。

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