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In the earlier days of computer history, there was a quite widespread concern that computers would take over the world from man one day. Already today, less than forty years later, as computers are relieving us of more and more of the routine tasks in business and in our personal lives, we are faced with a less dramatic but also less foreseen problem. People tend to be over- trusting of the functions of computers and are reluctant to challenge their authority. Indeed, they behave as if they were hardly aware that wrong buttons might be pushed, or that a computer might silmply fail to work properly.
Obviously, there would be no point in investing in a computer if you had to check all its answers, but people should also rely on their own internal computers and check the machine when they have the feeling that something had gone wrong. Questioning and routine double checks must continue to be as much a part of good business as they were in pre-computer days. Maybe each compu
A. computers will one day take over the world from man
B. computers are putting more and more pressure on people’s life
C. people are too dependent on computers
D. people always make mistakes in using computers

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In the earlier days of computer history, there was a quite widespread concern that computers would take over the world from man one day. Already today, less than forty years later, as computers are relieving us of more and more of the routine tasks in business and in our personal lives, we are faced with a less dramatic but also less foreseen problem. People tend to be over- trusting of the functions of computers and are reluctant to challenge their authority. Indeed, they behave as if they were hardly aware that wrong buttons might be pushed, or that a computer might silmply fail to work properly.
Obviously, there would be no point in investing in a computer if you had to check all its answers, but people should also rely on their own internal computers and check the machine when they have the feeling that something had gone wrong. Questioning and routine double checks must continue to be as much a part of good business as they were in pre-computer days. Maybe each compu
A. to look back to the early days of computers
B. to explain what technical problems may occur with computers
C. to warn against a mentally lazy attitude towards computers
D. to discourage unnecessary investment in computers

[填空题]Most of us, from earlier school days, have been told that the earth revolves round the sun.

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Early days
1. The company was established in ______ by Olivia Jenkins.
2. Her products sold well because of the ______ of natural products.
3. In order to satisfy demand, the owners had to find ______ in 1977. The 1980s
4. The introduction of new products resulted in the ______ of the business.
5. By recruiting professional expertise, the company managed to secure ______ with major UK retailers.
6. To support further growth, Eldertree needed both of a bigger ______ company.
7. In 1987 the company was acquired by Greenaway, the UK’s largest ______.
8. To improve productivity, Greenaway decided to build a ______ in 1988.
9. Greenaway also decided to keep Eldertree’s ______ for its products.
EIdertree Cosmetics today
10. Greenaway has centralised functions such as its ______.
11. In spite

[单项选择]The history of the computer in the twentieth century is one of dramatic adaptation and expansion. The computer had modest beginnings in areas where it was used as a specialist tool. The first electronic computer was built in the 1930s and was solely for the use of undergraduate students in Iowa State University to handle mathematical computations in nuclear physics. In the 1960s an early version of the Internet, ARPPANET was used in computer science and engineering projects. However, only 10 years later computers were starting to change our life style, the way we do business and many other things and by the late 1980s’ networks were expanding to embrace sections of the general public.
Computerization has changed US high school education in many ways. Three different changes that consider being important. The first is the use of the computer as teaching aid for teachers. The next is the massive data storage and fast data retrieval facilitated by computer. Then comes the changes bro
A. indifferent.
B. suspicious.
C. biased.
D. supportive.