The most frightening words in the English language are, “Our computer is down.” You hear it more and more when you are on business. The other day I was at the airport waiting for a ticket to Washington and the girl in the ticket office said, “I’m sorry, I can’t sell you a ticket. Our computer is down.”
“If your computer is down, just write me out a ticket.”
“I can’t write you out a ticket. The computer is the only one allowed to do so.”
I looked down on the computer and every passenger was just standing there drinking coffee and staring at the black screen. Then I asked her, “What do all you people do?”
“We give the computer the information about your trip, and then it tells us whether you can fly with us or not.”
“So when it goes down, you go down with it.”
“That’s good, sir.”
“How long will the computer be down?” I wanted to know.
“I have no idea. Sometimes it’s down for 10 minutes, sometimes for two hours. There’s no way we can find out without asking the computer, and since it’s down it won’t answer us.”
After the girl told me they had no backup(備用) computer, I said. “Let’s forget the computer. What about your planes? They’re still flying, aren’t they?”
“I couldn’t tell without asking the computer.”
“Maybe I could just go to the gate and ask the pilot if he’s flying to Washington, ” I suggested.
“I wouldn’t know what gate to send you to. Even if the pilot was going to Washington, he couldn’t take you if you didn’t have a ticket.”
“Is there any other airline flying to Washington within the next few hours?”
“I wouldn’t know, ” she said, pointing at the dark screen. “Only ‘IT’ knows. ‘It’ can’t tell me.”
By this time there were quite a few people standing in lines. The word soon spread to other travelers that the computer was down. Some people went white, some people started to cry and still others kicked their luggage.
小題1:The best title for the article is _______.
A．When the Computer Is DownB．The Most Frightening Words
C．The Computer of the AirportD．Asking the Computer
小題2:What could the girl in the ticket office do for the passengers without asking the computer?
A．She could sell a ticket.
B．She could write out a ticket.
C．She could answer the passengers’ questions.
D．She could do nothing.
小題3:Why do you think they had not a backup computer?
A．Because it was easy down
B．Because it was very expensive.
C．Because it was not advanced enough.
D．Because it was not as big as the main computer.
小題4:The last paragraph suggests that _______.
A．a(chǎn) modern computer won’t be down.
B．computers can take the place of humans
C．sometimes a computer may bring suffering to people
D．there will be great changes in computers

小題1:A
小題2:D
小題3:B
小題4:C

本文記述了作者在機(jī)場遭遇電腦系統(tǒng)死機(jī)所帶來的后果及人們對此的反應(yīng)。
小題1:主旨題。根據(jù)文章第1句中的Our computer is down及后面的文章內(nèi)容，可推知此題答案為A。
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章中的對話：售票員不能賣機(jī)票，回答不出旅客提出的問題等等，可推知此題答案為D。
小題3:主觀題。根據(jù)各選項的比較及生活經(jīng)驗對之進(jìn)行判斷，得出此題的答案為B。
小題4:推斷題。根據(jù)文章最后一段的描述：電腦死機(jī)，旅客們感到恐懼、憂郁、不安，從而可推知此題答案為C。
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