单选题 {{B}}Passage Two{{/B}}
{{B}}Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.{{/B}}

{{B}}To Err Is Human{{/B}}
Everyone must have had at least one personal experience with a computer error by this time. Bank balances are suddenly reported to have jumped from $ 379 into the millions, appeals for charitable contributions are mailed over and over to people with crazy sounding names at your address, department stores send the wrong bills, utility companies write that they're turning everything off, that sort of thing. If you manage to get in touch with someone and complain, you then get instantaneously typed, guilty letters from the same computer, saying, "Our computer was in error, and an adjustment is being made in your account."
These are supposed to be the sheerest, blindest accidents. Mistakes are not believed to be the normal behavior of a good machine. If things go wrong, it must be a personal, human error, the result of fingering, tampering a button getting stuck, someone hitting the wrong key. The computer, at its normal best, is infallible.
I wonder whether this can be true. After all, the whole point of computers is that they represent an extension of the human brain, vastly improved upon but nonetheless human, superhuman maybe. A good computer can think clearly and quickly enough to beat you at chess, and some of them have even been programmed to write obscure verse. They can do anything we can do, and more besides.
It is not yet known whether a computer has its own consciousness, and it would be hard to find out about this. When you walk into one of those great balls now built for the huge machines, and standing listening, it is easy to imagine that the faint, distant noise are the sound of thinking, and the turning of the spools gives them the look of wild creatures rolling their eyes in the effort to concentrate, choking with information. But real thinking, and dreaming, are other matters. On the other hand, the evidence of something like an unconscious, equivalent to ours, are all around, in every mail. As extensions of the human brain, they have been constructed the same property of error, spontaneous, uncontrolled, and rich in possibilities.

单选题 The title of the writing "To Err Is Human" implies that ______.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[精析] 综合理解题【考频：18】。计算机时常出错，文章通过寻找原因，认为人类是制造错误的罪魁祸首。 [避错] A)“犯错仅限于人类”，太绝对，排除A)；C)“所有的人都经常犯错误”，本文中并未强调所有的人，而只是把人类作为整体来分析，故排除C)；D)“人们生来就是犯错误的”，强调了人们犯错误的根源是天生的，文中未提到，故排除D)。

单选题 The first paragraph implies that ______.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[精析] 推理判断题【考频：68】。根据题干找到第一段，第一段的中心句是第一句，所以要理解第一句话的含义，“迄今为止每个人一定至少遭遇过一次计算机出错的经历”，也就是说没有人能避免计算机犯错误，由此可知选项A)正确。 [避错] B)“计算机出错的能力太强了，以致所有错误都是不可避免的”，文中未涉及到这点，故排除B)；C)“计算机会出现像计算错误或报告不准确等这样的错误”，文章第一段在举例时的确提到这两点，但这只是论据而不是论点，排除C)；D)“计算机不会思考，出错是自然不可避免的”，本段未涉及，故排除D)。

单选题 The author uses his hypothesis that "computers represent an extension of the human brain" in order to indicate that ______.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[精析] 原因目的题【考频：26】。理解好定位的句子，“计算机是不会犯错的”，作者表示了怀疑，因为计算机是人脑的延伸，人犯错或计算机犯错都是不可避免的。 [避错] B)“计算机和人类犯错误的数量一样多”，文中没提到，排除此项；C)“计算机犯的错和人类犯的错一样都可以避免”，这样说有点绝对了，有些错误可以避免，但并不是所有的错误都可避免，所以这句话是错的，故排除 C)；D)“计算机是人类制造的，所以计算机犯的错就是人类犯的错”，这一论点太绝对，排除D)。

单选题 The rhetoric the author employed in writing the third paragraph, especially the sentence "A good computer can think clearly and quickly enough to beat you at chess…" is usually referred to in writing as ______.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[精析] 语义理解题【考频：40】。这是对英语中修辞手段的考查，必须清楚各种修辞的含义和用法。“计算机能清晰且迅速地思考以致于可以在下棋时把你打败”。很明显这是夸张手法，故选C)。 [避错] climax意思为“高潮，顶点”；personification意思为“拟人化”；hyperbole意思为“夸张”；onomatopoeia意思为“拟声”。弄懂了四个选项的意思，不难做出此题。四个选项较为偏僻，这就要求考生平时多注意一些偏僻词的意思，不一定非得记住这些词怎么拼，但要记住它们的意思。