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扬州大学大学英语一级考试试卷 （UCET Band 1A 2007-07-4）

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shopping, like computerized banking, will be quick, safe and convenient.” Computers and Our Health

Nurse Penny Atkins works in a large, modern hospital.

“We use computers a lot in medicine nowadays. For instance, at the hospital where I work we make patients’ appointments through a computer, which saves a lot of time. So does keeping patients’ records on a computer. It also saves space because you can get so much more information onto a piece of computer tape than a piece of paper. Another advantage is that anyone who wants information on a patient can get it quickly, or even at the same time as someone else. You just dial the computer. In the past a doctor might take a patient’s records away to his room and keep them for weeks, which could make things difficult for the rest of us! Actually, computers can often do a doctor’s work better than a human being can. Computers don’t suffer from lack of sleep, so they don’t miss important points. And because they never forget anything they’ve ever been told, they’re often better at working out what’s wrong with a patient, or the best treatment to give him. Some people even think we should all have regular computer checks on our health and then we would be able to cure most diseases in the early stages. We’d all spend less time in hospital, so the future would be better for us over-worked nurses!”

Computers Catch Criminals

Chief Inspector Harston talks about ways in which computers can help the police fight crime.

“Members of the public often think of detective work as fast and exciting when most of it is slow and boring. For example, a detective on a stolen car case may have to check through long lists of information, and in the time it takes him to do this, the thief may well escape. With the new National Police Computer we are now able to find out details of car ownership and driving licenses in a fraction of the time it takes by traditional methods. We are also developing systems of storing fingerprint information in computers and even information about people’s appearance. It’s possible to work out codes for visual details and to link a computer with a videotape recorder (VTR). Then, instead of looking through books of photographs we’ll be able to ask the computer to sort out the right ones, and see photographs of suspects flashed across a VTR screen. In police work speed is often essential, so computers are ideal for helping catch criminals. The only problem is that we now have a new kind of criminal—the very clever man who knows how to make huge sums of money by cheating a computer, and he is very difficult indeed to catch.”

Questions 26-35 are based on the passage you have just read.

26. Charles Babbage was the person who invented the first calculating machine. 27. Computers can do 500,000 sums in one minute, faster and better than we can.

28. The day has already come when people needn’t carry bank notes, coins or even a cheque

book any longer because of the use of computers.

29. When you go shopping, you can show the shop assistant the special card and get the goods

you want at once.

30. The more the computer is used at the hospital, the better the doctor’s work can be

efficiently improved.

31. Computers can help doctors perform major operations on patients.

32. If our health is checked by the computer used at the hospital regularly, most diseases can be

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