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What are you going to do with your old computer after you buy a new one? You have paid high prices for the old computer, but how much do you think it is worth now? Few people want to buy an old computer. Unfortunately, the only thing you can do is to throw it away.
What do many people do when they try to sell their old computers? Foolishly, they think about its original cost and then reduce the price according to the age of the computer-rather like a secondhand car. They are wrong. They forget that new computers are becoming cheaper every day, making old computers almost worthless. In 1985, for example, a good computer cost over U-S $ 4, 000. Ten years later its owner would be lucky to get 400.
You must be careful about buying a secondhand computer. The microchips in a computer may last a long time, but the hard disk will not. It will probably cost more to replace the hard disk with a new one than the computer itself is worth. So saying and repairing an old computer is like building a car from spare parts. It is cheaper to buy a new car.
One magazine recently listed some suggestions. One suggestion was to give it to charity. The final one was to store it somewhere and hope that it would become a collector's item in fifteen or twenty years. But in fifteen or twenty years there may be so many old computers that they will all be worthless.
Whatever you decide to do with an old computer will not change the fact that it will be useless soon. The world of computers is quickly changing and eventually all computers will not only be integrated with video telephones and run DVD ROM disks, but also be able to perform many tasks which as yet we cannot even imagine. All these uses will require much more advanced computers today to the garbage can of the next century.
1.The author believes that it will cost far more to repair an old computer than to ________.
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A.buy a new computer
B.buy a new car
C.repair an old car
D.build a car from spare parts
2.What does the author mean by the last sentence?
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A.Most advanced computers today will eventually be out-of-date.
B.Most computers are not yet advanced enough at all.
C.In the future advanced computers will be in garbage cans.
D.There are not enough garbage cans for old computers at present.
3.Which of the following is the best title for this text?
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A.Computers in the 21st Century
B.The Development of Computers
C.Old Computers and New Computers
D.What would Happen to Old Computers
科目:高中英語 來源:2012年普通高等學(xué)校招生全國統(tǒng)一考試重慶卷英語 題型:050
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