现代大学英语听力3原文及答案

Unit 9

Task 1

【原文】

Compere: And now for our first question. It comes from Mrs. June Moore. Mrs. Moore

Mrs. Moore: Does the panel think that computers will change our lives Compere: Mrs. Moore wants to know if computers will change our lives. Philip Barnes

Philip Barnes: Computers 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 computers

Computers 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 computer 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 computer is the

greatest disaster of the 20th century.

Phyllis Archer: Could I interrupt Arthur Haines says the computer is a disaster, but the computer is a machine. It was invented by

people; it is used by people. If the computer is a disaster,

then people are a disaster.

Compere: 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 computer 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 computer.

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 computer display at the BANANA Computer Store. Salesman: Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this little computer 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 computer terminal and

one outside. This computer can do anything! Now let’s have a

little demonstration. Who would like to try the new BANANA-3

computer 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 computer 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 computer 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 computer like a typewriter. But it's much better than a typewriter. You can move words or