阅读理解Thereweretwointerestingnewsitemsinthepaperafewyearsagoonewasaboutamanwhoreceivedabillfromthetelephonecompanyfor￡999999—forthreemonths!Theotherwasaboutamanwhoreceived￡2

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　　There were two interesting news items in the paper a few years ago one was about a man who received a bill from the telephone company for ￡ 999 999—for three months! The other was about a man who received ￡ 2 000 a month—for doing nothing.

　　The connection between the two news items is simple: computers—the best inventions of the twentieth century. The telephone bill came from a computer which made a terrifying mistake: that man's bill was only ￡ 23 . 36. The other item was not so amusing. A man walked into the unguarded computer room of a large packaged food company and expertly programmed the computer (给计算机编程序) to pay him ￡ 2 000 a month for raw meat which he “supplied” to the company. Of course he never sent the meat but he certainly received the money. The computer wrote out a bill and even “signed”it. It was only a random (随便的) check that uncovered the trick. It could be happening in thousands of other companies all over the world.

　　Computers are not the magic workers that some people say they are. They make mistakes; they are sometimes slower than human beings and they are easily fooled. The US used to conscript (征兵) people with the help of a computer. The army sent out a card which had to be filled in and sent back. It was easy to avoid being called up simply by spreading candle-wax on the card. The computer couldn't read the card and did nothing with it.

　　It's our everyday life that computers cause many problems. Let's get back to using people instead of computers before a mistake that we can't put right.

1．In the first paragraph we know

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A．the paper is telling a lie

B．the first sentence is the topic sentence

C．the two news items made people surprised

D．if a man did nothing at all for the telephone company he would still get ￡ 2 000 a month

2．The man was given ￡ 999 999 because ________.

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A．the computer made a big mistake

B．he worked very hard

C．he programmed the computer to pay him so much money for raw meat

D．his work was very difficult to do and the pay was certainly high

3．The main idea of the second paragraph is ________.

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A．the computers are magic workers

B．the computers can do anything as man

C．the computers can write out a bill and even sign it

D．the computers sometimes also make big mistakes

4．Computers ________.

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A．were used to conscript people.

B．are usually faster than human beings.

C．are not so miracle (神奇的) as people expect.

D．were not easily controlled and always fooled human beings.

5．The writer's main idea is ________.

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A．we'd better use people instead of computers in our everyday life.

B．we should not use computers because they always makemistakes.

C．computers are widely used in our everyday life.

D．if we want to work well don't use the computers.

Answer 1

答案：B;A;D;C;A