现代大学英语听力3原文及答案unit9

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 sentences from place to

place or make corrections or changes right on the screen. You never have

to erase on paper. It's a wonderful little program! Would you like to try it,

Mr...

Harvey: Van Runkle. Harvey Van Runkle. I've never used a computer before... Salesman: It's easy. First we start up the machine, and then boot up a program. Harvey: Boot up?

Salesman: That's computer talk for turning the computer on and loading a program.

There. Now we look at the menu.

Harvey: Menu? But I just had lunch. I'm not hungry.

Salesman: No, no. This is a program menu, not a restaurant menu. It shows the different things the program can do. For example, here we have "file". If

you select file, you can choose which of your documents you want to work

on. And here’s “edit”. This gives you ways to correct your document. Harvey: Gee, this is great! There's only one problem.

Salesman: What's that?

Harvey: I don't have any documents. I'm a plumber.

Salesman: But you have bills, don't you?