Passage Three
For good or bad, computers are now part of our daily lives. With the price of a small home computer now being lower, experts predict that before long all schools and businesses and most families in the rich parts of the world will own a computer of some kind. [32]Among the general public, computers arouse strong feelings-people either love them or hate them. The computer lovers talk about [33]how useful computers can be in business, in education and in the home-apart from all the games, you can do your accounts on them, use them to control your central heating, and in some places even do your shopping with them. Computers, they say, will also bring some leisure, [33]as more and more unpleasant jobs are taken over by computerized robots. The haters, on the other hand, argue that [33]computers bring not leisure but unemployment. They worry, too, that people who spend all their time talking to computers will forget how to talk to each other. And anyway, they ask, what's wrong with going shopping and learning languages in classroom with real teachers? [34]But their biggest fear is that computers may eventually replace human beings altogether.
答案解析:
Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
32. What is the main idea of this passage?
[C]解析:主旨題,短文在引出話題后說:“在一般民眾之中,計算機引發了強烈的感情。人們或者喜愛它,或者痛恨它。”然后文章分別闡述這兩種對立的觀點。所以C正確。一般來說,對于main idea題目,具有概括性的選項是答案,C符合此特征。做主旨題時特別看重“第1句”,因此本題A是強干擾項。只是在本文中,A項提到的內容只是主題的引文,全文是分愛、恨兩方面討論人們對計算機的看法的。作為事實細節,D也符合文章內容,但不合題意。
33. What is not mentioned in the passage about computers?
[A]解析:短文提到,計算機對企業、教育和家庭有用,計算機化的機器人可以代替人做沒意思的工作,計算機還會帶來失業。B、C、D均有提及,A是答案。
34. What is the biggest fear of the computer haters?
[D]解析:短文最后說:痛恨計算機的人最大的擔憂在于,終究有一天計算機會完全取代人類。D與此相符“語義強調”的內容常是解題關鍵。聽到原文中的their biggest fear,就得特別留神!聽到什么選什么。
35. What's the speaker's attitude toward computers?
[D]解析:短文說話人對正反兩邊的意見給予客觀介紹,沒有明顯的偏向性,因此其態度是中立的,答案是D。A、C項含義一致,可以直接排除。由聽過的短文可知,說話人并不反對計算機,故也可以排除B。