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The computer is fast, and never makes a mistake, while people are too slow, and full of mistakes sometimes. That's what people often say when they talk about computers. For over a quarter of a century, scientists have been making better and better computers. Now a computer can do a lot of everyday jobs wonderfully. It is widely used in factories, hospitals, post offices and airports. A computer can report, decide and control (控制) in almost every field. Many computer scientists are now thinking of making the computer “think” like a man. With the help of a person, a computer can draw pictures, write music, talk with people, play chess, recognize (识别) voices, translate (翻译) languages and so on. Perhaps computers will one day really think and feel. Do you think the people will be afraid when they find that the computer is too clever to listen to and serve (服务) the people?

1．A computer is clever because people are ________.

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2．Which of the following computers can not do now?

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3．What will happen in the future?

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A．Most jobs will be done by the computer.

B．People will no longer use computers.

C．Computers will be used only to talk with people.

D．All computers will be no use.

4．The text is written to ________.

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5．The best title for the text is ________.

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The BBC（英国广播公司）has the School Report（报道）for students in schools．Why does the BBC open it? One reason （原因） is to help students work with their classmates；the next is to help them write reports and the third is to let students know about the world．

The school Report is open to aged between 11 and 14 students in the UK．Teachers help students make reports．In March，teachers put the reports on the website of the school．After that，workers in the BBC visit the website．They discuss the reports and choose good ones from them．Then，they put good reports on time website of the BBC．

What does the school need for it? Just a computer and a website．If the school doesn’t have any one of them．the BBC won’t work with it．

1．Which reason is NOT mentioned（被提到）in the passage?

A．To help students work with people．

B．To help students learn to write reports．

C．To let students work for the BBC．

D．To let students know about the world．

2．The word“discuss”means“________”in Chinese．

A．删掉                      B．讨论                       C．发表                      D．拍卖

3．What does the school need for the School Report?

A．A computer and teachers                             B．A computer and a website．

C．A radio and a website．                               D．Workers of the BBC．

4．What do we know from the passage?

A．Lucy is 16 years old and she can work in the School Report．

B．The School Report is open to all schools in time world．

C．In March，students put their reports on the school website．

D．Not all the students’ reports can be on the website of the BBC．

5．What does the passage mainly tell us?

A．What the BBC is．                                      B．What the School Report is．

C．How students make reports．                      D．Where teachers put students’ reports．

British newspapers are much smaller than they used to be and their readers are often in a hurry, so newspapermen write as few words as possible. They tell their readers at once what happened, where, when and how it happened and what was the result: how many people were killed, what damage was done, which famous man married which woman , who did very well in the match and so on. Readers want the fact set out as fully and accurately as possible. Readers are also interested in the people who have seen the accdient. So a newspaperman always likes to get some information from someone who was there, which can be given in the person’s own words. Because he can use only a few words, the newspaperman must choose those words carefully, every one must be effective. Instead of “he called out in a loud voice”, he writes “he shouted”; instead of “the loose stones rolled noisily down the side of the mountain”, he will write “they thundered down the mountainside”. Because many of the readers aren’t very clever, and most of them are in a hurry,….

51. From the text,we learn that newspapermen write as few words as possible, because readers     .

A. want to know more about the news.            B. take no interest in what has happened.

C. have no time to read the news carefully.         D. pay much attention to the result.

52. The word “one” in the sentence “every one must be effective” means      .

A. word.               B. newspaperman.         C. reader.         D. person.

53. Which of the following would complete the text best?

A. He will keep his writing short.        B. He won’t care about his writing.

C. He will give nothing but information   D. He won’t make his writing good enough.

54. In what way do you think British newspaper have become smaller?

A. In page size.                      B. In number of readers.  

C. In number of pages.                D. In number of copies.

55. Which of the following is true?

A. Readers are not satisfied with the short news.

B. Not many people have time to read the long messages in newspapers.

C. Readers find the language of the newspaper exciting.

D. Newspapermen try to report as fully as possible.