Family Vs Technology
Modern technology certainly changes family behavior, but does it really damage family life as many people fear? Not necessarily, says Dr. Silva, a professor in Sociology(社会学) at the Open University, she also argues it is wrong to assume technology erodes(腐蚀，侵蚀) the quality of family life.
“There is the idea that technology has an influence on the family and the family suffers. My take is quite different,” she explains. “Technological change happens because people’s lives change. And it is people’s choices of how to live that creates processes of innovation(革新) as well. The family has a role like the economy or like technology itself in changing the world. The imagination is important in driving the things technologists want to find for our daily lives. People desire to see nature as it is, so color television comes about,” she says.
In another case, the increase in working mothers helped create a market for labor-saving kitchen equipment. “The time that women have to shop every day for food is no longer available so there is a need to have a refrigerator for food storage,” says Dr. Silva. “The need to cook that food more easily and quickly, means you have developments in cooking technology like the microwave oven(微波炉). The microwave oven already existed because it was developed for the navy during World War Two but it wasn’t used in ordinary families until the early 1980s.
“Technologies for housework were as important as those for work itself,” she says, “So washing machines, refrigerators and microwave ovens are terribly important. We couldn’t imagine what life would be like if we didn’t have them.” Technological changes in the kitchen have played an important role in the changes of family behavior, creating a new social focus in the home.
“With advanced technology, you can feed the family in an easier manner. People can do housework with less difficulty. But that doesn’t mean that family practices are not important — it’s just a different way of doing things.”
1.What is Dr. Silva’s attitude towards the effect that technology has on family life?
A．Worried. B．Optimistic(乐观的).
C．Puzzled. D．Uncertain.
2.What causes advances in technology according to Dr. Silva?
A．People’s love for nature.
B．Great changes in people’s way of life.
C．People’s desire to change the world.
D．The wonderful imagination in inventing things.
3.What can we learn from the passage?
A．The microwave oven was first used by working mothers.
B．People cook less because of modern kitchen equipment.
C．Technology has little effect on the changes of family behavior.
D．People need less skill to do housework due to advanced technology.
1.B
2.B
3.D
【解析】
试题分析：本文介绍科技对家庭的影响，科技改变了人们的如此生活，使人们做家务更容易。
1.细节题：从第一段的句子：Not necessarily, says Dr. Silva, a professor in Sociology(社会学) at the Open University, she also argues it is wrong to assume technology erodes(腐蚀，侵蚀) the quality of family life. 可知Dr. Silva,对科技对家庭的影响是乐观的。选B
2.细节题：从第二段的句子：“Technological change happens because people’s lives change.可知科技进步是因为人们的生活改变了。选 B
3.细节题：从最后一段的句子：“With advanced technology, you can feed the family in an easier manner. People can do housework with less difficulty.可知由于先进的技术人们需要做的家务更少。选D
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Modern technology certainly changes family behavior, but does it really damage family life as many people fear? Not necessarily, says Dr. Silva, a professor in Sociology(社会学) at the Open University, she also argues it is wrong to assume technology erodes(腐蚀，侵蚀) the quality of family life.
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| B．People cook less because of modern kitchen equipment. |
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