文档介绍：电大学位英语考试模拟题 Part I prehension ( 30 %) Directions: There are three passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B,C and D. You should decide on the best choice and blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. Passage 1 Questions 1 to5 are based on the following passage: ( 76 ) Much unfriendly feeling puters has been based on the fear of widespread unemployment resulting from their introduction. Computers are often used as part of automated production systems requiring a least possible number of operators, causing the loss of many jobs. This has happened, for example, in many steelworks. On the other hand, computers do create jobs. They are more skilled and better paid, though fewer in number than those they replace. Many activities could not continue in their present form. puters, no matter how many people are employed. Examples are the check clearing system of major banks and the weather forecasting system. When a firm puters, a few people are usually employed in key posts ( such as jobs of operations managers ) while other staff are re-trained as operators, programmers, and data preparation staff. ( 77 ) After the new system has settled down people in puter jobs are not always replaced when they leave, resulting ina decrease in the number of employees . This decrease is sometimes balanced bya substantial increase in the activity of the firm, resulting from the introduction puters. The attitudes of workers puters vary. There is fear of widespread unemployment and of the takeover of many jobs puter-trained workers, making promotion for older workers not skilled puters more difficult. On the other hand, many workers regard the trend toward wider use puters inevitable. They realize puters bring about greater efficiency and productivity, which will improve the condition of the whole economy, and lead to the creation of more jobs. This view was supported by the forme