Cloze-test:
COMPUTERS: GOOD OR BAD
For good or bad, computers are now (1) _____ of our daily life. With the (2) _____ of a small home computer now as low as $50, experts predict that before long all schools and businesses and most families in richer parts of the world will own a (3) _____ of some kind. Among general public, computers arouse strong feelings - people either love them (4) _____ hate them.
The computer-lovers talk about how useful computers can be in business, in education and in the home. Apart (5) _____ all the games, you can do your accounts on them, learn languages from them, write letters on them and in some places you even do your shopping with them. Computers, they say, will also bring more leisure, as more and more unpleasant jobs are taken (6) _____ by computerized robots.
The latter, on the (7) _____ hand, argue that computers bring not leisure but unemployment. They worry, too, that people (8) _____ spend all the time talking to comouters will forget (9) _____ to talk to each other. Their biggest fear (10) _____ that computers may eventually take overfrom human being altogether.
For good or bad, computers are now part of our daily life. With the price of a small home computer now as low as $50, experts predict that before long all schools and businesses and most families in the richer parts of the world will own a computer of some kind. Among general public, computers arouse strong feelings. People either love them or hate them.
The computer-lovers talk about how useful computer can be in business, in education and in the home. Apart from all games, you can do on them, your accounts on them, learns languages from them, write letters on them and in some places even do your shopping with them. Computers, they say will also bring more leisure, as more and more unpleasant jobs are taken over by computerized robots
The latter, on the other hand, argue that computers bring not leisure but unemployment. They worry, too that people who spend all the time talking to computers will forget how to talk to each other. Their biggest fear is that computers may eventually take over from human being altogether
