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中學會考試題預習專欄
英
文
(十四)
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ENGLISH
Dear students,
EF.O'Neill:
Today we are printing a complete model exam paper based on Paper III of the Certi ficate of English Examination Syllabus B so as to give you one more chance to practise precis and language usage before we start to print exercises on the multiple choice, and compre- hension section of the examination.
PART I:
You are advised to spend one hour on this part of the paper, Given below is a passage on the effects of computers on modern society Read the article and then: *
(a) Make a numbered list of 3 statements, each pointing out a different solution men- tioned in the passage. No item should con tain more than eight words but it is not necessary that these words form a com plete sentence."
(b) In not more than I 10 words, mention the
present problems and possible future pro blems caused by the use of computers and tell why people will continue to use com- puters in spite of these problems,
(A) We Have recently heard a great deal about the bad effects of computers on our sócial and economic institutions. In industry computers mean automation, and automation means un- employment. The United States, with its ex- travagant investment in computers is plagued by unemployment for unskilled workers, it is frequently argued that these facts are causally related. Already computers have begun to dis- place workers whose tasks are simple and re- petitive, clerical workers, workers on assembly lines, and the like. The variety of jobs, formerly done only by humans, that the machine can perform more rapidly accurately and coo- nomically increases with each new generation. of computers. If we follow this trend, say the pessimists, we are faced with the prospect of mass unemployment for all but a handful of highly trained, highly intelligent professionals, who will then be more influential and over- worked than they are now. Only recently a dis-
tinguished English physicist predicted that within twenty years electronic engineers might have to become conscientious objectors in order to prevent these machines from wrecking our social and economic institutions.
(B). According to the prophets of doom, our situation is hopeless. The computer is already. stirring up industrial strife as management desires and labour resists the effects of auto- mation. The gap between advanced and deve loping nations will increase, thus heightening international tensions. All the industrial and commercial machinery of production and dis- tribution of commodities will have to be taken over by the state, which will lead inevitably to tighter economic controls or even dictatorship... And so on and on runs this hopeless catalogue. Little wonder that some have thrown up their hands in dismay and proposed that we must somehow find a way to stop, or at least slow down, the pace of this technological nightmare.
(C) What can we do about it? It is foolish 10 dream of reversing history. We cannot pass laws forbidding the advancement of science and technology. The computing machines are here, and they will not merely stay they will grow bigger, faster, and more useful every year. They will grow because engineers want to build them, soldiers want to enlist them in new weapon systents and politicians want their help in the process of government. In short, they will flourish because they enable us to accomplish tasks that could never before have been under- Laken, no matter how many unskilled labourers we might have set to work: Computers will continue to amplify our intelligence for just the same reason that engines continue to amplify our muscles. The question we must ask is not whether we shall have computers or not have computers, but rather, since we are going to have them how we can make the most humans and intelligent use of them.
PART II
You are advised to spend 20 minutes on this part of the paper. The following questions are based on the passage in Part I.
(a) What does the word 'causally in line 5 tell
us about the relationship between com puters and unemployment among unskilled workers?
(b) Why, according to information found in
the passage, will greater use of computers increase the gap between advanced and developing nations?
(c) According to the passage, what kind of people are not likely to be displaced by
compu
(d) Find a sentence in paragraph, (A) which may serve to explain why management desires automation as mentioned in line 19.
(e) What does the author mean in the last sen
tence of paragraph (A) when he says that electronic engineers might have to become conscientious objectors?
(f) Find one word in paragraph (A) which could serve as a suitable definition of the phrase "prophets of doom in the first line. of paragraph (B).
(g) What does the author's use of the word
extravagant' in paragraph. (A) line 3 tell us about his view of America's investmenit in computers?
(h) Find words in paragraph (B) which are
used with these meanings:
state of conflict
2. list
3. feeling of fear and discouragement
PART IIE
You are advised to spend 25 minutes on this part of the paper.
(1) Rewrite these sentences, Keep the meaning
of the original sentences, as far as possible Use the words given in brackets or follow the instructions. Make only those changes which are necessary.
Example:
Helen was kind to help us.
Begin was).
It was kind of Helen to help us.
(a) Someone stole my wallet yesterday, (Begin: 'I had' and ornit "someone")
(b) Francis may have been ill yesterday,
(Begin Perhaps Francis)
(c) Let's not go to that meeting today
fAdd a questioni fag)
(d) I'm sorry that Peter does not study
harder..
(Begin: I wish that
(e) He went there to discuss the matter
with his uncle.
"(so that).
(f) He succeeded in getting the job. We
were very surprised..
(Combine beginning: Much tọ)___
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We were delighted by the story he told.
(Begin: We found the story).
(h) Now people know that he was mur
dered but years ago people thought that he had died accidentally. (Begin 'Now he is known and use was thought')
Thanks to you, I got to the meeting on time.
(Begin: If it and use "for").
(I would appreciate your helping me.
(if you!
(2) In each question an incomplete sentence is given with four items, A, B, C and D under- neath. When all items are inserted in the right order, they will complete the sen- tence: For each question, choose the cor rect order and write the letters in their pro- per sequence.
Example:
Don't believe him
he
what
no matter
says
Answer: C BA D
(a) Peler
yet for the lights are still on.
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gone
You can imagine John's illness.
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how
surprised
(c) I was happy to meet a man
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Cwhom
D. much
(d) remember
dark.
before it got too
B. telling
go
D. him
(e) Rarely:
such a reasonable price.
B.
that book. D. found
(3) Fill in each blank in the passage below with one word that will best complete the meaning of the sentence in which the blank appears. If no word is needed, make a cross in the blank like this X. Do not leave any blank empty. The first one has been done for you,
Example: (a)
Peter arrived (a).
(b)
Hồng Kong
a rainy morning in mid-June. A travel agency in his home city had booked- him fc)
a well-known Hong Kong
hotel so as soon as he had gone (d) customs at the airport, he got (e) taxi and headed (f).
check (g).
the hotel to
(4) In the passage below, fill in the blanks with.
the correct form of the words in brackets. Do not leave any blank empty. The first two have been done for you."-
Examples:
(a) had been working
(b) was just beginning to get
(call)
(work) on my homework all morning, and `(h).
(just begin/ get) bored when the telephone rang. 1 stopped (c)
(d) _(write) (d (answer) it. You can imagine, how-(e) (surprise) I was to hear my uncle Jack's voice. He said he (f)** from the airport and had just arrived in Hong Kong from his home in London. He also said that he intended. (g). (stay) in Hong Kong for at least a week and was looking forward to (h)
(see) me and my parents. Before (i) (ring) off, he told me the telephone num ber of the hotel where he (1).
(stay)
(have), my and asked me (k), parents ring him back as soon as they arrived home,
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