现代大学英语听力3原文及答案unit

Unit 9

Task 1

【原文】

pere: And now for our first question. It es from Mrs. June Moore. Mrs. Moore? Mrs. Moore: Does the panel think that puters will change our lives?

pere: Mrs. Moore wants to know if puters will change our lives. Philip Barnes? Philip Barnes: puters have already changed our lives. Business is more efficient. Planes and trains provide a better service...

Miss Anderson: Just a moment, Mr. Barnes. You may be right about business, but how many people have lost their jobs because of puters? puters have

changed our lives, but I don't want my life changed.

Arthur Haines: Excuse me, Miss Anderson. We're talking about our lives, not your life.

The puter will affect everyone in the world. Records can be kept of

everything we do. Records will be kept of all our private lives. In my

opinion, the puter is the greatest disaster of the 20th century.

Phyllis Archer: Could I interrupt? Arthur Haines says the puter is a disaster, but the puter is a machine. It was invented by people; it is used by people. If

the puter is a disaster, then people are a disaster.

pere: Thank you, Phyllis Archer. Thank you, panel. And thank you, Mrs. Moore.

Task 2

【答案】

A.

1) It includes a 9-inch TV screen, a keyboard with 46 numbers and characters on it, a printer, and two disk drives.

2) It's all contained right on the floppy disk.

3) It’s much better than a typewriter in that one can move words or sentences from place to place or make corrections or changes right on the screen, and never have to erase on paper.

4) It can help him make a monthly budget for his household with electronic spreadsheet software.

B.

1) loads your program into the machine

2) typewriter, typewriter,

3) turning the puter on and loading a program

4) the different things the program can do

【原文】

Narrator: For Harvey Van Runkle, it was love at first sight, or should we say, love at first byte? Really, it is 64,000 bytes—that's the size of the memory on his

new BANANA-3 personal puter. It all happened by accident. His wife,

Charlotte, had sent him out to buy a new toaster, when he found himself

standing in front of a puter display at the BANANA puter Store. Salesman: Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this little puter is going to change your lives. Just consider the hardware: You have a 9-inch TV screen. That’s your video

display terminal. You have a keyboard with 46 numbers and characters on it.

You have a printer that will give you paper printouts of your work in three

colors. You have two disk drives—one inside the puter terminal and one

outside. This puter can do anything! Now let’s have a little demonstration.

Who would like to try the new BANANA-3 puter? You, sir. You look

interested. Step right up and try the BANANA-3.

Harvey: What's a d-disk drive?

Salesman: That's the part of the puter that loads your program into the machine. Harvey: Oh. What's a program?

Salesman: The program? That's your software. That's the instructions. It's all contained right on this floppy disk here. The instructions on this disk tell the puter

what to do.

Harvey: Oh, you mean like my wife. She always tells me what to do.

Salesman: Exactly. Now what type of program would you like? I have word processing,

I have electronic spreadsheet...

Harvey: What's word processing?

Salesman: Word processing is using the puter like a typewriter. But it's much better