Question

It is 4 o’clock in the early morning. Everything but the computing room on the campus of the university appears as quiet and misty as the mysterious hell. In the computing room, 30 students with sleepy eyes, sit still at their desk, beating the dirty and worn keys. Staring at the colorful screen, they tap continuously for hours. For the other parts in the world, it might be in the middle of the night, nevertheless here time represents nothing. It is an entirely enclosed field. These young computer “hackers” are tracing a sort of stimulus (刺激), a drive so exciting and absorbing that it ignores nearly anything else in their lives and becomes the focus of their being. They are addicted (上癮的) computer programmers. Some of these students have been glued to the console (電子設備的操縱臺) for no less than twenty hours even with no break for meals or rest. Some have been sleeping on sofas and chairs in the computing room, trying to struggle for a few moments’ rest but hating to get too far away from their addicted machines.

         It is not necessary for most of these students to be at the computing room in the middle of the night. What they are working belong to no assignments. They remain there because they desire to be — they can not resist the attraction of the computers.

         Furthermore, they are in groups instead of being alone. There are hackers at computing rooms all over the country. In the unimaginable way, they focus on nothing but computer. They escape from schooling and live beyond friendship; they might have difficulty being employed, choosing to travel from one computing room to another. They may even give up personal health.

         “There is one hacker in my memory. We actually had to lift him away from his chair to feed him and arrange him to rest and sleep. We truly worried about his health,” says a computing science professor at California University.

         Professors of computer science are nowadays paying more attention to this hacker phenomenon and are on the watch for future hackers and more and more severe computer addicts. They believe firmly that hackers are not simply resulted from the close relationship with a machine. It is the result of social relationship with the attractive thinking machines, which are becoming nearly universal.

1.We can learn from the passage that those at the computing room in the middle of the night are      .

A. students working on a program

B. students using computers to amuse themselves

C. hard-working computer science majors

D. students deeply fascinated by the computer

2.Which of the following is NOT true of those young computer “hackers”?

A. Most of them are top students majoring in computer programming.

B. For them, computer programming is the only purpose for their life.

C. They can stay with the computer at the computing room for nearly two days.

D. Their love for the computer is so deep that they want to be near their machines even when they sleep.

3.It can be reasonably inferred from the passage that ______.

A. the hacker phenomenon exists only at university computing rooms

B. it is not very easy for the “hackers” to find friends or jobs

C. university computing rooms are expecting outstanding programmers out of the “hackers”

D. the hacker phenomenon is partly due to the lack of the computing rooms

4.According to professors of computer science, the hacker phenomenon can be described as      .

A. positive                B. disgusting

C. worrying              D. admiring

5.Which of the following may be the most appropriate title for the passage?

A. The Charm of Computer Science       B. A New Type of Electronic Toys

C. Future Computer Programmers         D. Computer Addicts

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.D

2.A

3.B

4.C

5.D

【解析】

試題分析：本文敘述了在大學的電腦機房里，到了早晨4點了，學生還在機房他們不是在做作業而是無法抗拒電腦的誘惑沉迷于電腦的“黑客”。但是這嚴重影響了他們的身體健康。

1.細節理解題。根據文章的第二段提到“What they are working belong to no assignments. They remain there because they desire to be—they can not resist the attraction of the computers.”表明這些學生是由于無法抗拒電腦的誘惑而非做作業才徹夜呆在電腦前的�？梢娛浅撩杂陔娔X的學生。所以選D。

2.細節理解題。根據根據第一題的信息，這些學生不是主修電腦編程的最好的學生,而僅僅是沉迷于電腦的“黑客”。而其余的選項在文章中均有體現。故答案為A。

3.推理判斷題。根據第三段提到“they might have difficulty being employed, choosing to travel from one computing room to another.”既然這些學生可以自由選擇一個又一個的電腦房，那就可以推斷出大學的電腦房是對所有人開放的。故選B。

4.推理判斷題。根據第一段的最后兩句話、第三段的最后一句話以及最后一段第一句話“Professors of computer science are nowadays shedding more light on this hacker phenomenon and are on the watch for latent hackers and more and more severe computer addictives.”都表明了作者的焦急態度。故選C。

5.標題歸納題。根據文章一開始就提到了沉迷于電腦的學生，然后又舉了一個電腦“黑客”“廢寢忘食”的例子。最后大學教授分析了“黑客”現象的發生原因。可見最適當的標題應該是D。

考點：社會現象類短文閱讀。