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READING
3 You are going to read the article entitled ‘The Price of Progress’. Before
you read do the following tasks.
A: explain two different meanings of the word ‘computer’
B: finish the phrases below according to your own ideas:
· Computers breed __________________________________________.
· The age of computers is the age of _____________________________.
· Science fiction fantasies of computers taking over the world are ________.
4 Look quickly through the article and
A: find the author’s variant of the phrases you have just made up
B: suggest about the author of the article (sex, age, occupation, personal
characteristics)
5 Now read the article. Six paragraphs have been removed from the
article. Choose from paragraphs (A- H) the one that fits each gap (1-6).
There is one extra paragraph which you don’t need to use.
THE PRICE OF PROGRESS
I was listening sleepily to my digital clock
radio, the other morning, when I half-heard one of
those items that starts your day. It was about a
new invention.
It all involves weighing, and tearing off special
little tags from each item you buy, and feeding
them into a machine and weighing again.
Now I can recall a time when there were a
few long queues in supermarkets, because the
companies employed two people at each check-
out: one to ring up and the other to help you
speedily pack. Remember?
It meant jobs for them, and the opportunity to talk
for you....
Maybe you believe in that sort of progress.
But I would like to smash the dreadful machines. I
simply cannot understand why otherwise
1
2
A As adults, they chat about
Space Invaders, and learn a
dead vocabulary that owes
nothing to Shakespeare or
Milton. Boring, mindless,
boring. As for thinking, our
computers will do it for us.
B It was also when every
garage was staffed by friendly
men who filled the car up,
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