III. 阅读理解。(2X15=30)
A
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 Few people want to buy a computer which has become out-of-date or has been replaced by a newer mode.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 ad 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 compiled a list of 10 things to do with an old computer. One suggestion was to donate it 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.
1. What does the underlined part mean?
A. FashionableB. No longer fashionableC. Second handD. Worthless
2. The best way to do with an old computer is _________.
A. to throw it awayB. to evaluate it and sell it
C. to donate it to the poorD. keep it at home
3. How many ways are mentioned in the passage to do with an old computer?
A. 10B. 12C. 5D. 4
4. The title of the passage could be __________.
Throw Away Your old computer
How Much Does An Old Computer Cost Now?
My Old Computer
Unless Computer
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The money for the space program of the United States has been questioned by some people. There are suggestions that the money could be better spent elsewhere. Some people believe that the Apollo to the moon could have been better and more cheaply done by robots. Their arguments may have some value. It is true, however, that never in history was mankind so united or so focused on one event as when Neil A. Armstrong climbed down a ladder from the Apollo and stepped onto the moon. The effect of feelings of this event is something to be considered when we look at the space program. President Nixon spoke these words to the astronauts, “… all the people on this earth are truly one — one in the pride in what you have done ….” “We came in peace of all mankind.”These words give noble ideas that we on earth must try to achieve in our daily lives. Perhaps the writer Archibald Macleish made the best comment as to what the moon flight — Apollo might mean for all mankind. He wrote that to see the earth as it truly is, small and beautiful, to see ourselves as brothers, brothers who know they are truly brothers.
5. The writer believes that _____.
A. the space program is worthless
B. President Nixon made the best comment about the Apollo
C. The effect of feelings of the event of the moon landing is important in judging its cost
D. Archibald Macleish is a great writer
6. The writer suggests that _____.
the space flight should be questioned
B. all the people on the earth watch TV
C. the moon flight may help us to see ourselves as brothers
D. the astronauts came in peace
7. The word “elsewhere” in the passage means _____.
A. other programsB. other countriesC. other placesD. other states