Question

The arrival of computer, some people predicted, soon make paper a thing out of date. And guess what? Bill Gate’s dream of a computer on every desk has been more or less realized. Yet, most of people working at those desks fire knee-deep in paper.

  Some research from a new book, the Myth of Paperless Office suggests our increasing use of paper is due to the introduction of the very digital technology that was supposed to wipe it out. The studies show that it can lead to a 40％rise in paper consumption.

   Xerox’s main business involved paper, and it was also alarmed by the prospect of its going out of fashion. So the research center invented the computing and printer technology that made sure it didn’t. Xerox knew what they were doing.

    But our attachment to paper is truly amazing. Why store e—mail messages in paper files, which take up valuable space and are effectively unsearchable, when you can keep them on a hard disk and look through them for keywords? Why print off quantities of documents which is to be thrown away after the meeting is over, when they can be handed out electronically via intranets (内部互联网)?

   If people love paper, there must be a reason for it. It is highly portable, flexible,

and consumes no battery power. And it doesn’t have to be turned on before you can read it.

   So the problem with the predictions is that they are always solution-driven. In fact, technology is not always the answer. The answer is not that people use so much paper, but that they don’t make good use of it.

1．What changes has the computer brought in for paper?

   A．More and more paper is needed.

   B．Its sale is reducing and it is to disappear.

   C．Fewer people prefer paper to a hare disk.

   D．More paper of fine quality is produced.

2．What does“the very digital technology” in paragraph 2 refer to?

   A．The new book.                                B．The hard disk.

   C．The computer.                                 D．The technology of printing.

3．To protect their production from disappearing, Xerox——.

   A．had the computing and printer technology invented

   B．took off the price of their production

   C．introduced new technology of paper making

   D．encourage people to store messages by writing them on paper

4．Which word can describe paper best according to the reasons for people’s love of paper?

   A．Fashionable.        B．Convenient.    C．Traditional.         D．Effective.

5．What can we learn from the whole passage?

   A．Bill Gates’ vision of the computer is to wipe paper out.

   B．It is a stupid way to store e—mail messages on a hard disk.

   C．Digital technology is the only solution to reduce the use of paper.

   D．To print documents on papers has become a great waste now.

Answer 1

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