Fill in each numbered blank with ONE suitable word. Write your answers in the space provided. (2.0 points)                       

Computing is now at the (1) ___________ stage as printing was when the first printing presses were used. (2) ___________ printing presses were invented, only rich people like kings and dukes could afford to buy books. Often these (3) ___________ were unable to read and hadn’t got enough time to learn. In any case, the books were so big that it was difficult for anyone to relax with a book (4) ___________ we do today. They wanted books (5) ___________ they were expensive and there was something magical about them. Only a few people were able to (6) ___________, and it took an extremely long time to write a book. Monks and other people who could write said ordinary people could not learn to read.

The position with computers is very similar today. A few years (7) ___________, computers were very large and expensive. Business managers and rich people ordered them but (8) ___________ didn’t know how to (9) ___________ them. In many (10) ___________,  however, the situation has now completely changed. Lots of people not only own microcomputer but also know how to use them.

Read the following passage and choose the best answer to each question. Write your answers in the space provided.  (1.0 point)

It is five o’clock in the evening when Rene Wagner come home from work. She walks into the living room and looks at her three children. They are 14,13 and 9 years old. They are watching TV. The living room is a mess. There are dirty socks on the floor and cookies on the sofa. Games and toys are every where. Rene is angry ,“This place is a mess” she tells her children, “I can’t work all day and then do housework all evening. I’m not going to do housework!” Rene doesn’t do housework. She doesn’t clean or wash dishes. She doesn’t wash clothes, either. Every evening she sits on the sofa and watches TV.

After two weeks, every plate, fork and glass in the house is dirty. All the children’s clothes are dirty. Every garbage basket is full. The house is a mess.

Then, one day Rene comes home from work and gets a big surprise. The kitchen is clean. The children clean the kitchen.

The next day, the living room is clean, and the children are washing their clothes. Rene tells the children “OK, I’ll do the housework again. But you have to help me.” Now Rene and her three children do the housework together. Then they all sit on the sofa and watch TV.

1. When Rene came home from work, she found the house ___________ .

A. clean and dirty                               B. dirty and tidy  

C. dirty and untidy                                      D. clean but untidy

2. Rene told her children ___________.

A. to do the housework                     B. she couldn’t do housework

C. not to do housework                     D. she wouldn’t do housework

3. Two weeks later, the house was ___________.

A. very clean                  B. a mess              C. tidy                  D. rather dirty

4. Some days later, the house was clean again because ___________.

A. she couldn’t let it that way            B. her children did housework.

C. her children didn’t do housework. D. she did housework again.

5. Now Rene does housework again because ___________.

A. her children help her.                    B. they can watch TV together.

C. her children wash their clothes.               D. her children don’t do it.