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The old advertising slogan, "So simple a child can do it", has taken on new meaning for me. A few weeks ago I got a computer, bu
The old advertising slogan, "So simple a child can do it", has taken on new meaning for me. A few weeks ago I got a computer, bu
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2016-01-01
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The old advertising slogan, "So simple a child can do it", has taken on new meaning for me. A few weeks ago I got a computer, but I am mechanically illiterate. I knew that children had no fear of the future, so that seemed a good place to seek help. I asked my nephew, twelve years old, at an elementary school, to help me.
My nephew took the machine for granted and has simply accepted the fact that computers are now a way of life. He plays with them and does his homework on them and even creates programs for them. I, on the other hand, am terrified by what this equipment can do. It can interchange paragraphs, switch words around and even correct my spelling. It informs me of its limitations, takes commands and asks questions. It even seems to have a sense of communication. Rather than accusing me of making an error, it prints " One of us has made a mistake!" It never gets tired and is always patient and ready to go when I am.
I think it was somewhat normal for me to be suspicious of computers. They represent a break with some very familiar habits and traditions. It is only human to instinctively avoid anything that shifts thoroughly from the acceptable, comfortable past. But the world is governed by ceaseless change and we must therefore establish links with the present and future as well as the past. Computer technology is an excellent case in point, as the newest systems grow out of date in only a few years, or even months.
This ability to see, experience and accept the new is one of our saving characteristics. To be fearful of tomorrow, to close ourselves to possibilities, to resist the inevitable, to advocate standing still when all else is moving forward, is to lose touch. If we accept the new with joy and wonder, we can move gracefully into each tomorrow. More often than not, the children shall lead us.
What doesn’t the author’s computer do among the following?
选项
A、It takes commands and asks questions.
B、It tells the author that everybody has his own limitations.
C、It corrects the author’s spelling mistakes.
D、It informs the author of his mistakes.
答案
B
解析
本题考查的不是“a dimming of the lights”的本意,而是其在上下文中的特定含义,根据第一段第九行的句子,“So you cut off eye contact,what sociologist Erving Goffmancalls‘a dimming of the lights.’”大意为:因此你终止眼神的交流,也就是社会学家Erving Goffman所称的“a dimming of the lights”。因此B项ceasing to glance at others(不再盯着别人)最符合题意。
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