MBA《英语》模拟题02及答案(7)

MBA工商管理硕士英语最新模拟题和答案

es to be promoted
C. women have to go back to their house chores
D. men will still play the dominant role in leadership
45. What is the main idea of the passage?
A. The achievement women have made in their professions.
B. The pride of women in their achievement.
C. Women's professions have changed a lot.
D. The present social status of women and problems they are faced with.
Passage 3
Computers manipulate information, but information is invisible. There's nothing to see or touch. The programmer decides what you see on the screen. Computers don't have knobs like old radios. They don't have buttons, not real buttons. Instead, more and more programs display pictures of buttons, moving even further into abstraction and arbitrariness (抽象和任意). I like computers, but I hope they will disappear, that they will seem as strange to our descendants as the technologies of our grandparents appear to us. Today's computers are indeed getting easier to use, but look where they started: so difficult that almost any improvement was welcome.
Computers have the power to allow people within a company, across a nation or even around the world to work together. But this power will be wasted if tomorrow's computers aren't designed around the needs and capabilities of the human beings who must use them -- a people-centered philosophy, in other words. That means retooling computers to mesh with human strengths -- observing, communicating and innovating -- instead of asking people to conform to the unnatural behavior computers demand. That just leads to error.
Many of today's machines try to do too much. When a complicated word processor attempts to double as a desktop publishing program or a kitchen appliance comes with half a dozen attachments, the product is bound to be burdensome. My favorite example of a technological product on just the right scale is an electronic dictionary. It can be made smaller, lighter and far easier to use than a print version, not only giving meanings but even pronouncing the words. Today's electronic dictionaries, with their tiny keys and barely legible displays, are primitive but they're on the right track.
Now imagine a host of specialized devices replacing a single powerful computer that tries to do a little of everything. Imagine a pocket checkbook, a drawing pod, a file-folder-size spreadsheet (报表). Each would be self-contained but would communicate with the others through infra-red light beams or radio links. The word I just looked up in the dictionary would be inserted into the letter I am writing; the right picture or spreadsheet calculation would become part of a report I'm doing for work.
We would no longer have to learn the arbitrary ways of the computer. We could simply learn the tools of our trade -- sketch pads, spreadsheets, schedules. How wonderful i
t would be to ignore the capricious(反复无常的) nature of technology -- and get on with our work. ( 420 words )
46. The passage talks about ______.

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