2013级2013～2014学年第二学期期中考试试卷

班级 姓名 学号 Part I Reading Comprehension (15%)

Passage 1

Personal computers and the Internet give people new choices about how to spend their time.

Some may use this freedom to share less time with certain friends or family members, but new technology will also let them stay in closer touch with those they care most about. I know this from personal experience.

E-mail makes it easy to work at home, which is where I now spend most weekends and evenings. My working hours aren't automatically much shorter than they once were, but I spend fewer of them at the office. This lets me share more time with my young daughter than I might have if she'd been born before electronic mail became such a practical tool.

The Internet also makes it easy to share thoughts with a group of friends. Say you do something fun - see a great film, perhaps - and there are four or five friends who might want to hear about it. If you call each one, you may tire of telling the story.

With e-mail, you just write one note about your experience, at your convenience, and address it to all the friends you think might be interested. They can read your message when they have time, and read only as much as they want to. They can reply at their convenience, and you can read what they have to say at your convenience.

E-mail is also an inexpensive way to stay in close touch with people who live far away. More than a few parents use e-mail to keep in touch, even daily touch, with their children off at college.

We just have to keep in mind that computers and the Internet offer another way of staying in touch. They don't eliminate any of the old ways.

1. The purpose of this passage is to ________. A. explain how to use the Internet

B. describe the writer's joy of keeping up with new technology C. tell the merits and usefulness of the Internet

D. introduce the reader to basic knowledge about personal computers and the Internet 2. The use of e-mail has made it possible for the writer to ________. A. spend less time working

B. have more free time with his child C. work at home on weekends

D. work at a speed comfortable to him

3. According to the writer, e-mail has a clear advantage over the telephone because e-mail helps one _______.

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A. reach a group of people at one time conveniently B. keep one's communication as personal as possible C. pass on much more information than the telephone

D. get in touch with one's friends faster than the telephone

4. The passage discussed all the following elements of e-mail EXCEPT _______. A. its cost

B. the way of writing C. the saving of time

D. its easy and convenient use

5. The best subject for this passage is ________. A. Computers: New Technological Advances B. Internet: A New Tool to Make Friends C. Computers Have Made Life Easier

D. Internet: A Convenient Tool for Communication Passage 2

It was so quick and easy. A fourteen-year-old boy in Scottsdale, Arizona, put his $50 billon a color copying machine called a copier. Within seconds he transformed $50 into $550, and he was ready to shop.

Twenty years ago only a few people had the skills or equipment to make fake money. Today computer, copier, and printer technology is so good that almost anyone can “make” money. With the new technology there is a new kind of casual faking machine. These machines are called casual because they don't have special skills and because they don't need to plan much.

The number of bills made by casual fakers on their home or office computer is growing fast. In fact, this number has doubled every year since 1989! There is no way to stop faking 100 percent. But the government has recently found a few ways to make casual faking very difficult.

One way is to put very, very small words, called microprints, in hidden places on the bill. The words are only 6/1000 inch. No one can read them without a magnifying glass, a special glass that makes things look bigger. And they are too small to come out clearly on a copier. If someone copies a bill that has microprints and you look at the copy through a magnifying glass, instead of microprinted words, you will see only black lines.

Another way to stop people from making fake money on their home computers is to use special color-changing ink. Money printed with color-changing ink will look green from one angle and yellow from another. Home computers cannot use color-changing ink. So any copies from a home computer will have normal ink and can be noticed quite easily.

Additionally, money is made on special paper with very small pieces of red and blue silk mixed in. And on each bill there is a special line that runs from the top to the bottom of the

bill. Suppose, for example, that you hold a $20 bill up to the light. If you do this, you can see the line has the words “USA twenty”. The line turns red if you put it under a special light. This line and the special paper with red and blue silk are not easy for home computers to copy. The government must try many different ways to stop faking. It needs to keep changing the way money is made because fakers can learn to copy the changes. Today copiers can't copy microprinted words or color-changing ink. But, in a few years, who knows? 6. It can be concluded from the first three paragraphs that _______________. A. most children above the age of 14 can fake money B. new high technology makes money faking easier C. anyone who has a computer can fake money

D. casual faking machines are called casual for the reason that no skills and planning are

required

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