新编四级听力练习 第230期

Passage Three
For good or bad, computers are now part of our daily lives. With the price of a small home computer now being lower, experts predict that before long all schools and businesses and most families in the rich parts of the world will own a computer of some kind. [32]Among the general public, computers arouse strong feelings-people either love them or hate them. The computer lovers talk about [33]how useful computers can be in business, in education and in the home-apart from all the games, you can do your accounts on them, use them to control your central heating, and in some places even do your shopping with them. Computers, they say, will also bring some leisure, [33]as more and more unpleasant jobs are taken over by computerized robots. The haters, on the other hand, argue that [33]computers bring not leisure but unemployment. They worry, too, that people who spend all their time talking to computers will forget how to talk to each other. And anyway, they ask, what's wrong with going shopping and learning languages in classroom with real teachers? [34]But their biggest fear is that computers may eventually replace human beings altogether.

答案解析：
Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
32. What is the main idea of this passage?
[C]解析：主旨题，短文在引出话题后说：“在一般民众之中，计算机引发了强烈的感情。人们或者喜爱它，或者痛恨它。”然后文章分别阐述这两种对立的观点。所以C正确。一般来说，对于main idea题目，具有概括性的选项是答案，C符合此特征。做主旨题时特别看重“第1句”，因此本题A是强干扰项。只是在本文中，A项提到的内容只是主题的引文，全文是分爱、恨两方面讨论人们对计算机的看法的。作为事实细节，D也符合文章内容，但不合题意。
33. What is not mentioned in the passage about computers?
[A]解析：短文提到，计算机对企业、教育和家庭有用，计算机化的机器人可以代替人做没意思的工作，计算机还会带来失业。B、C、D均有提及，A是答案。
34. What is the biggest fear of the computer haters?
[D]解析：短文最后说：痛恨计算机的人最大的担忧在于，终究有一天计算机会完全取代人类。D与此相符“语义强调”的内容常是解题关键。听到原文中的their biggest fear，就得特别留神！听到什么选什么。
35. What's the speaker's attitude toward computers?
[D]解析：短文说话人对正反两边的意见给予客观介绍，没有明显的偏向性，因此其态度是中立的，答案是D。A、C项含义一致，可以直接排除。由听过的短文可知，说话人并不反对计算机，故也可以排除B。