首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
专升本
The three biggest lies in America are;(1)"The check is in the mail" ,(2)"Of course I’ll respond you in the morning" , and(3)"It
The three biggest lies in America are;(1)"The check is in the mail" ,(2)"Of course I’ll respond you in the morning" , and(3)"It
admin
2018-01-18
30
问题
The three biggest lies in America are;(1)"The check is in the mail" ,(2)"Of course I’ll respond you in the morning" , and(3)"It was a computer error. "
Of these three little white lies, the worst is the third. It’ s the only one that can never be true.
Today, if a bank statement cheats you out of $900 that way, you know what the clerk is sure to say, "It was a computer error. " Nonsense. The computer is reporting nothing more than what the clerk typed into it.
The most annoying case of all is when the computerized cashier in the grocery store shows that an item costs more than it actually does. If the innocent buyer points out the mistake, the checker, bagger, and manager all come together and offer the familiar explanation: "It was a computer error. "
It wasn’t, of courses that computerized cashier is really nothing more than an electric event.
The eye reads the Universal Product Code—chat bar of black and white lines in a corner of the package—and then checks the code against a price list stored in memory. If the price list is right, you’ll be charged accurately.
Grocery stores update the price list each day—that is, somebody sits at a keyboard and types in the prices. If the price they type in is too high, there are only two explanations: carelessness or dishonesty. But somehow "a computer error" is supposed to excuse everything.
One reason we let people hide behind a computer is the common misperception that huge, modern computers are electric brain with "artificial intelligence. " At some point there might be a machine with intelligence but none exists today. The smartest computer on Earth right now is no more intelligent than your average pen. At this point in the development of computers, the only thing any machine can do is what a human has instructed it to do.
According to the author, a computerized cashier is really just______.
选项
A、a machine to count money
B、a machine to receive money
C、an instrument to print codes
D、an instrument to read codes
答案
D
解析
事实细节题。根据文章第四段第二句“The eye reads…and then checks the code against a price list stored in memory.”可知,computerized cashier只是个electric eye to read codes。故选D。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/TBWC777K
本试题收录于:
英语题库普高专升本分类
0
英语
普高专升本
相关试题推荐
Ididn’thear______becausetherewastoomuchnoisewhereIwassitting.
Theproducersofinstantcoffeefoundtheirproductstronglyresistedinthemarketplacesdespitetheirproduct’sobviousadva
Betweenabout1910and1930,newartisticmovementinEuropeanartweremakingthemselvesfeltintheUnitedStates.Americanar
DearProfessorandMrs.Lang,Idon’tknowwhetherthisletterwillcomeasasurprisetoyou,forIthinkyoumusthavesee
Afriendofmine,inresponsetoaconversationwewerehavingabouttheinjusticesoflife,askedmethequestion,"Whosaidli
Scientistshadtofindoutmanythings【C1】______theycouldlandmen【C2】______themoon.Theyneededmore【C3】______aboutspacecon
Meetingboysissometimeseasy,sometimesdifficult,butineithercase,itisonlythebeginning.Manygirlstryalltheapproa
Ifhehadbeeninbetterhealth,he(),morebooks.
High-qualitycustomerserviceispreached(宣扬)bymany,butactuallykeepingcustomershappyiseasiersaidthandone.Shopper
Wewelcomerain,buta(an)______largeamountofrainfallwillcausefloods.
随机试题
患儿,男,6岁。发热、咳嗽6天。体温38℃,R24次/分。肺部有少量细湿哕音。痰液黏稠,不易咳出。该患儿的主要护理措施是
政府采购预算一般包括()。
下列有关国家土地使用权转让的描述中,()有误。
监理工程师在目标控制中采取的合同措施有( )。
关于桥梁“桥头跳车质量通病”防治措施的说法,正确的有()。
需求法则可以表示为:( )。
[资料三]2009年3月11日,甲公司签发一张商业汇票,收款人为乙公司,到期日为2009年9月11日,甲公司的开户银行P银行为该汇票承兑。2009年6月30日,乙公司从丙公司采购一批货物,将该汇票背书转让给丙公司,丙公司9月30日持该汇票到其开户银行Q银
与爱迪生、爱因斯坦等人的“发明”相较,乔布斯的创新做到了把别人“___________”的发明,在美学观感与简约优雅中不断集成和升华,浓缩成___________人们生活的前沿产品。填入划横线部分最恰当的一项是()。
在TMS中,运输任务计划及调度管理模块内容包含()。
项目经理小丁负责一个大型项目的管理工作,目前因人手紧张只有15个可用的工程师,因为其他工程师已经被别的项目占用。这15个工程师可用时间不足所需时间的一半,并且小丁也不能说服管理层改变这个大型项目的结束日期。在这种情况下,小丁应该(27)。
最新回复
(
0
)