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    　　What are you going to do with your old computer after you buy a new one? You have paid high prices for the old computer, but how much do you think it is worth now? Few people want to buy an old computer. Unfortunately, the only thing you can do is to throw it away.

    　　What do many people do when they try to sell their old computers? Foolishly, they think about its original cost and then reduce the price according to the age of the computer－rather like a secondhand car. They are wrong. They forget that new computers are becoming cheaper every day, making old computers almost worthless. In 1985, for example, a good computer cost over U－S $ 4, 000. Ten years later its owner would be lucky to get 400.

    　　You must be careful about buying a secondhand computer. The microchips in a computer may last a long time, but the hard disk will not. It will probably cost more to replace the hard disk with a new one than the computer itself is worth. So saying and repairing an old computer is like building a car from spare parts. It is cheaper to buy a new car.

    　　One magazine recently listed some suggestions. One suggestion was to give it to charity. The final one was to store it somewhere and hope that it would become a collector's item in fifteen or twenty years. But in fifteen or twenty years there may be so many old computers that they will all be worthless.

    　　Whatever you decide to do with an old computer will not change the fact that it will be useless soon. The world of computers is quickly changing and eventually all computers will not only be integrated with video telephones and run DVD ROM disks, but also be able to perform many tasks which as yet we cannot even imagine. All these uses will require much more advanced computers today to the garbage can of the next century.

    1．The author believes that it will cost far more to repair an old computer than to ________.

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    A．buy a new computer

    B．buy a new car

    C．repair an old car

    D．build a car from spare parts

    2．What does the author mean by the last sentence?

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    A．Most advanced computers today will eventually be out－of－date.

    B．Most computers are not yet advanced enough at all.

    C．In the future advanced computers will be in garbage cans.

    D．There are not enough garbage cans for old computers at present.

    3．Which of the following is the best title for this text?

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    A．Computers in the 21st Century

    B．The Development of Computers

    C．Old Computers and New Computers

    D．What would Happen to Old Computers

    答案：A;A;D;B
    解析：

    　　1．A　　文章第三段后两句将修理旧电脑比喻成“building a car from spare parts”。由此可知，买新电脑要比修旧电脑便宜得多。

    　　2．A　　该句意为：“所有这些使用功能将会使今天高级得多的电脑进入下个世纪的垃圾筒”。注意“today”是“computers”的后置定语。

    　　3．D　　全文论述了如何处理旧电脑的问题，并指出了作者认为最可行的出路。

    　　4．B　　由一般常识可推知，申请专利的目的是保护知识产权。


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    　　To take the apple as a forbidden fruit is the most unlikely strory the Christians(基督教徒)ever cooked up．For them, the forbidden fruit from Eden is evil(邪恶的)．So when Colu brought the tomato back from South America, a land mistakenly considered to be eden, ever jumped to be the obvious conclusion．Wrongly taken as the apple of Eden, the tomato was shut o the door of Europeans．

    　　What made it particularly terrifying was its similarity to the mandrake, a plant that was the to have come from Hell(地狱)．What earned the plant its awful reputation was its roots w looked like a dried-up human body occupied by evil spirits．Tough the tomato and the man were quite different except that both had bright red or yellow fruit, the general population consio them one and the same, to terrible to touch．

    　　Cautious Europeans long ignored the tomato, and until the early 1700s most of the We people continued to drag their feet．In the 1880s, the daughter of a well-known plant expert that the most interestinig part of an afternoon tea at her father's house had been the “introduction this wonderful new fruit-or is it a vegetable?”As late as the twentieth century some writers classed tomatoes with mandrakes as an”evil fruit”．

    　　But in the end tomatoes carried the day．The hero of the tomato was an American named R Johnson, and when he was publicly going to eat the tomato in 1820, people journeyed for hun of miles to watch him drop dead．”Wha are you afraid of?”he shouted．”I'll show you fools these things are good to eat!” Then he bit into the tomato．Some people fainted．But he sur and, according to a local story, set up a tomato-canning factory．

    (1)

    The tomato was shut out of the door of early Europeans mainly because ________．

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    A．

    it made Christive evil

    B．

    it was the apple of Eden

    C．

    it came from a forbidden land

    D．

    it was religiously unacceptable

    (2)

    What can we infer the underlined part in Paragraph 3?

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    A．

    The process of ignoring the tomato slowed down

    B．

    There was little pregress in the study of the tomato

    C．

    The tomato was still refused in most western countries

    D．

    Most western people continued to get rid of the tomato

    (3)

    What is the main reason for Robert Johnson to eat the tomato Publicly?

    [　　]

    A．

    To manke imself a hero

    B．

    To remove people's fear of the tomaoto

    C．

    To speed up the popularityt of the tomato

    D．

    To persuade people to buy products fo\rom his factory

    (4)

    What is the main purpose of the passage?

    [　　]

    A．

    To challenge people's fixed concept of the tomato

    B．

    To give an explanation to people's dislike of the tomato

    C．

    To present the change of people's attitudes to the tomato

    D．

    To show the process of freeing the tomato from religious influence

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