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more when you are on business. The other day I was at the airport waiting for a ticket to Washington and
the girl in the ticket office said, "I"m sorry, I can"t sell you a ticket.Our computer is down."
"If your computer is down, just write me out a ticket."
"I can"t write you out a ticket. The computer is the only one allowed to do so."
I looked down on the computer and every passenger was just standing there drinking coffee and staring
at the black screen. Then I asked her, "What do all you people do?"
"We give the computer the information about your trip, and then it tells us whether you can fly with us
or not."
"So when it goes down, you go down with it."
"That"s good, sir."
"How long will the computer be down?" I wanted to know.
"I have no idea. Sometimes it"s down for 10 minutes, sometimes for two hours. There"s no way we can
find out without asking the computer, and since it"s down it won"t answer us."
After the girl told me they had no backup (备用) computer, I said. "Let"s forget the computer. What
about your planes? They"re still flying, aren"t they?"
"I couldn"t tell without asking the computer."
"Maybe I could just go to the gate and ask the pilot if he"s flying to Washington," I suggested.
"I wouldn"t know what gate to send you to.Even if the pilot was going to Washington, he couldn"t take
you if you didn"t have a ticket."
"Is there any other airline flying to Washington within the next few hours?"
"I wouldn"t know," she said, pointing at the dark screen. "Only it knows. It can"t tell me."
By this time there were quite a few people standing in lines. The word soon spread to other travelers that
the computer was down. Some people went white, some people started to cry and still others kicked their
luggage.
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B. The Most Frightening Words
C. The Computer of the Airport
D. Asking the Computer
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B. She could write out a ticket.
C. She could answer the passengers" questions.
D. She could do nothing.
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B. Because it was very expensive.
C. Because it was not advanced enough.
D. Because it was not as big as the main computer.
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B. computers can take the place of humans
C. sometimes a computer may bring suffering to people
D. there will be great changes in computers
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试题【阅读理解。 The most frightening words in the English language are, "Our computer i】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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Shoppers, traders and businessmen in Red Lion Street were 1 by a loud bang, and seconds later the
two men jumped over from the van, which had stopped outside Barclays Bank. Several people rushed to
give 2 and helped to put out the fire 3 the van. A light American truck changed the 4 to provide living
accommodation room (躺的地方), 5 firemen arrived.
The men, Mr. Cary House, who was driving, and his 6 Mr. Charlie Lynn were taken to hospital with
slight 7 . They were allowed to leave after 8 . "I heard this explosion. It was 9 loud. I thought it could
have been a(n) 10 ." said Mr. Leslie Webster, manager of the market, who was working in his office in Red
Lion Street. "I looked out of the window and saw this lad jump from the van and 11 on the ground. Then
another lad came out of the van. He seemed to be in a 12 state-parts of his trousers were hanging below his
knees."
"I came downstairs to get a fire extinguisher (灭火器), but 13 the time I got outside someone from the
bank was in the 14 with an extinguisher."
Mr. Webster said both men were shocked. One was taken into the market"s office to wait for a(n) 15 .
"The second man 16 going back into the van to see if everything was 17 , and five minutes later he came
out with a drawer that was blazing (burning)." he added.
18 inside the van was mainly superficial (表面的), 19 a plastic window was blown out.
The two men have spent the last six months 20 . At the time of the incident their wives were shopping in
the city.
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Last week I was invited to a doctor"s meeting at the Ruth hospital for incurables. In one of the wards a patient, an old man, got up shakily from his bed and moved towards me. I could see that he hadn"t long to 1 , but he came up to me and placed his right foot close mine on the floor. "Frank!" I cried in astonishment. He couldn"t 2 , as I knew, but all the time 3 his foot against mine. My 4 raced back more than thirty years to the 5 days of 1941, when I was a student in London. The 6 was an air-raid shelter, in which I and about hundred other people slept every night. Two of the regulars were Mrs. West and her son Frank. 7 wartime problems, we shelter-dwellers got to 8 each other very well. Frank West 9 me because he wasn"t 10 , not even at birth. His mother told me he was 37 then, but he had 11 of a mind than a baby has. His " 12 " consisted of rough sounds-sounds of pleasure or anger and 13 more. Mrs. West, then about 75, was a strong, capable woman, as she had to be, of course, because Frank 14 on her entirely. He needed all the 15 of a baby. One night a policeman came and told Mrs. West that her house had been flattened by a 500-pounder. She 16 nearly everything she owned. When that sort of thing happened, the rest of us helped the 17 ones. So before we 18 that morning, I stood beside Frank and 19 my right foot against his. They were about the same size. That night, then, I took a pair of shoes to the shelter for Frank. But as soon as he saw me he came running and placed his right foot against mine. After that, his 20 to me was always the same. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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