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2022年大学英语六级阅读理解习题：科技
To live in the United States today is to gain an appreciation forDahrendorf’s assertion that social change exists everywhere. Technology, theapplication of knowledge for practical ends, is a major source of socialchange.
Yet we would do well to remind ourselves that technology is a humancreation; it does not exist naturally.A spear or a robot is as much a culturalas a physical object. Until humans use a spear to hunt game or a robot toproduce machine parts, neither is much more than a solid mass of matter. For abird looking for an object on which to rest, a spear or robot serves the purposeequally well. The explosion of the Challenger space shuttle and the Russiannuclear accident at Chernobyl drive home the human quality of technology;theyprovide cases in which well-planned systems suddenly went haywire(变得混乱) andthere was no ready hand to set them right. Since technology is a human creation,we are responsible for what is done with it. Pessimists worry that we will useour technology eventually to blow our world and ourselves to pieces. But theyhave been saying this for decades. and so far we have managed to survive andeven flourish. Whether we will continue to do so in the years ahead remainsuncertain. Clearly, the impact of technology on our lives deserves a closerexamination.
Few technological developments have had a greater impact on our lives thanthe computer revolution. Scientists and engineers have designed specializedmachines that can do the tasks that once only people could do.There are thosewho assert that the switch to an information-based economy is in the same campas other great historical milestones, particularly the Industrial Revolution.Yet when we ask why the Industrial Revolution was a revolution, we find that itwas not the machines. The primary reason why it was a revolutionary is that itled to great social change. It gave rise to mass 
production and, through massproduction, to a society in which wealth was not confined to the few.
In somewhat similar fashion, computers promise to revolutionize thestruccure of American fife, particularly as they free the human mind and opennew possibilities in knowledge and communication. The Industrial Revolutionsupplemented and replaced the muscles of humans and animals by mechanicalmethods. The computer extends this development to supplement and replace someaspects of the mind of human beings by electronic methods. n is the capacity ofthe computer for solving problems and making decisions that represents itsgreatest potential and that poses the greatest difficulties in predicting theimpact on society.
1. A spear or a robot has the quality of technology only whenit_____________.
A) is used both as a cultural and a physical 
object
B) serves different purposes equally well
C) is utilized by man
D) can be of use co both man and animal
2. The examples of the Challenger and Chernobyl cited by the author serveto show that_________________.
A) if not given close examination, technology could be used to destroy ourworld
B) technology is a human creation, so we are responsible for it
C) technology usually goes wrong, if not controlled by man
D) being a human creation. technology is liable to error
3. According to the author. the introduction of the computer is arevolution mainly because__________________.
A) the computer has revolutionized the workings of the human mind
B) the computer can do the tasks that could only be done by peoplebefore
C) it has helped to switch to an information technology
D) it has a great potential impact on society
4. By using the phrase "the human quality of technology" (Line 7, Para. 2),the author refersto the fact that technology_______________.
A) has a great impact on human life
B) has some characteristics of human nature
C) can replace some aspects of the human mind
D) does not exist in the natural world
5. The passage is based on the author's_______________.
A) keen insight into the nature of technology
B) prejudiced criticism of the role of the Industrial Revolution
C) cautious analysis of the replacement of the human mind by computers
D) exaggerated description of the negative consequences of technology
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