WHAT WAS THE MAIN REASON THAT MADE HER DREAM OF BECOMING A DOCTOR...
32. What was the main reason that made her dream of becoming a doctor impossible?
A. She was a woman
B. She couldn’t finish her study at the medical school.
C. She couldn’t set up her own hospital.
D. She wrote too many letters.
B. Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each blank :
Why I Dislike Computers
Almost everyone says that computers are wonderful and that they are changing our
lives for the better by (33)... everything faster and more reliable, but I’m not so
sure that this is the case.
The other day, I was standing in a large department store (34)...to pay for a
couple of films for my camera when the assistant announced that the computer
(35)...the till had stopped working. I didn’t think this was a big problem and I set off
to find another counter, but of course, all the machines are part of the same (36)...
So there we were: a shop (37)...customers, money at the ready, waiting to make our
purchases, but it was quite clear that none of the assistants knew what to do. They
weren’t (38)...our money and give customers a written receipt, because the sales
wouldn’t then have been recorded on the computer system. (39)..., like many other
people, I left my shopping on the counter and walked out. Don’t you think that ‘s funny?
It would never have happened before computers, and that, for me, is the problem: we are
beginning to depend on these machines so completely that we simply can’t manage
(40)... any more.