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The initial impact of computers was in the area of entertainment. If you walked by a video arcade in the early 1980s, you could not have failed to notice that the use of video games was growing at what some considered an alarming rate. In 1981 the movie industry grossed＄3 billion, video games took in an estimated ＄6 billion. That gives you some idea of just how big the computer industry had become. Video games employ the same technology as personal computers, and indeed many who bought personal computers did so primarily for playing games at home, thus saving their quarters. Though video games are not as popular as they were a few years ago, they did provide consumer with their first real reason to buy PCs.
A more recent computer innovation, desktop publishing, supplies one good reason for those who write for a living to buy a PC. Desktop publishing is a deceptively simple description for an extremely complex group of hardware and software tools. You can now write text, e
A. the development of computer industry
B. the development of wireless technology
C. the decline in movie industry
D. the depression in the entertainment business

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The initial impact of computers was in the area of entertainment. If you walked by a video arcade in the early 1980s, you could not have failed to notice that the use of video games was growing at what some considered an alarming rate. In 1981 the movie industry grossed＄3 billion, video games took in an estimated ＄6 billion. That gives you some idea of just how big the computer industry had become. Video games employ the same technology as personal computers, and indeed many who bought personal computers did so primarily for playing games at home, thus saving their quarters. Though video games are not as popular as they were a few years ago, they did provide consumer with their first real reason to buy PCs.
A more recent computer innovation, desktop publishing, supplies one good reason for those who write for a living to buy a PC. Desktop publishing is a deceptively simple description for an extremely complex group of hardware and software tools. You can now write text, e
A. it controls people's life
B. it brings about a more equal society
C. it might lengthen the distance between upper-middle-class people and lower-class people
D. it leads to a profound change in the mass media

[单项选择]Unfortunately, even computers cannot completelyerrors.
A. reduce
B. diminish
C. eliminate
D. decrease

[单项选择]The company purchased several computers programmed to ______ the specific tasks required.
A. tackle
B. solve
C. assign
D. follow

[单项选择]Which of the following statements about computers is true according to the passage


A. Computers can beat any chess player in the world.
B. Computers can never be used to forecast weather.
C. Computers can be trained to understand some words spoken by a speaker.
D. Computers can be made to think as a teenager does.

[单项选择]Computers can provide information which allows businessmen to______ their list of goods, by showing which items are being sold and how fast they are moving.


A. keep track of
B. keep pace with
C. keep in touch with
D. keep company with

[单项选择]Personal computers are no longer something beyond the ordinary people; they are ______ available these days.
A. promptly
B. instantly
C. readily
D. quickly

[单项选择]Despite their varied designs, navigation computers used in cars ______.


A. are more or less the same price
B. provide directions in much the same way
C. work on more or less the same principles
D. receive instructions from the same satellites

[单项选择]Electronic computers with many advantages can not carry out creative work and replace man（）
A. 带有很多优点的电子计算机不能完成代替人类完成创新工作。
B. 虽然电子计算机有很多优点，但它们不能进行创造性的工作，也代替不了人。
C. 许多先进的电子计算机不再按照人的意志工作并最终能代替人。
D. 电子计算机还不能有效地完成人类交给他的创造性工作。