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Section CDirection: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
Since the dawn of history, men have gathered information and have attempted to pass it on to other men. The carving of word and pictures on the walls of 26 caves represents some of man’s earliest effort to 27 information. Evidently, these efforts were very simple and 28 .
But as civilization grew more complex, better methods of communication were needed. The written word, carrier pigeons, the telegraph and many other 29 carried ideas faster and faster from man to man but still not fast enough to 30 ever growing needs. In recent years, as men entered the information era, a new type of machine, the electronic computer, has 31 and has become 32 important in the lives of all people. With the 33 and development of computers, it is as if man has suddenly come upon Alading’s magic lamp.
Generally speaking, the basic job of computers is the processing of information. For this reason, computers can be 34 as devices which accept information, perform mathematical or logical operations with the input information, and then supply the results of these operations as new information.
Computers can work through a series of problems and make thousands of logical decisions without ever becoming tired. However, although computers can replace men in dull, routine tasks, they only work according to the instructions given them, in other words, they have to be programmed. Their achievements are not very impressive when 35 to what the minds of men can do.
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