作者:城市网 来源:城市网学院 更新日期：2013-9-8
9 There were two interesting news items () in the paper a few years ago . One was about a man who received a bill from the telephone #pany for ￡999,999—for three month! The other was about a man who received ￡2,000 a month ---for doing nothing.
The connection between the two news items is simple: #puter – the best invention of the 20th century. The telephone bill came from a #puter which made a terrifying mistake that was only ￡23.36. The other item was not so amusing. A man walked into the unguarded #puter room of a large packaged food #pany (袋装食品生产公司) and expertly programmed the #puter (给计算机编程序) to pay him ￡2,000 a month for raw meat which he “supplied” to the #pany. Of course he never sent the meat, but he certainly received the money. The #puter wrote out a bill, and even “signed”it. It was only a random (随便的) check that uncovered the trick. It could be happening in thousands of other #panied all over the world.
Computers are not the magical workers that some people say they are. They make mistakes, they’re sometimes slower than human beings and they’re easily fooled. The US used to conscript (征兵) people with the help of a #puter. The army sent out a card, which had to be filled in and sent back. It was easy to avoid being called up simply by spreading candle-waxon on the card. The #puter couldn’t read the card and did nothing with it.
It’s in our everyday life that #puters cause many problems. Let’s get back to using people instead of #puters, before a mistake that we can’t put right.
The writer’s main idea is __________.
A we’d better use people instead of #puters in our everyday life.
B we should not use #puters because they always make mistakes
C #puters are widely used in our everyday life
D if we want to work well, don’t use the #puters.
Key:A
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