Questions56-60arebasedonthefollowingpassage.
Educatorstodayaremoreandmoreoftenheardtosaythatcomputerliteracyisabsolutelynecessaryforcollegestudents.Manyevenarguethateachincomingfreshmanshouldhavepermanentaccesstohisorherownmicrocomputer.Whatadvantagesdocomputersofferthecollegestudents?
Anystudentwhohasusedawordprocessorwillknowonecompellingreasontouseacomputer:towritepapers.Althoughnotallstudentsfeelcomfortablecomposingonawordprocessor,most,findrevisingandeditingmucheasieronit.Onecanalter,insert,ordeletejustbypressingafewkeys,thuseliminatingtheneedtorewriteorre-type.Furthermore,sincetherevisionprocessislessburdensome,studentsaremorelikelytoreviseasoftenasisnecessarytoendupwiththebestpaperpossible.Forthesereasons,manyfreshmanEnglishcottrsesrequiretheuseofawordprocessor.
Computersarealsousefulinthecontextoflanguagecourses,wheretheyareusedtodrillstudentsinbasicskills.SoftwareprogramsreinforceESL(EnglishasaSecondLanguage.instruction,aswellasinstrnctioninFrench,German,Spanish,andotherlanguages.Byusingtheseprogramsonaregularbasis,studentscanimprovetheirproficiencyinalanguagewhileproceedingattheirownpace.
Sciencestudentstakeadvantageofcomputersinmanyways.Usingcomputergraphiccapabilities,forexample,botanystudentscanrepresentandanalyzedifferentplantgrowthpatterns.Medicalstudentscanlearntointerpretcomputerizedimagesofinternalbodystructures.Physicsstudentscancompletecomplexcalculationsfarmorequicklythantheycouldwithouttheuseofcomputer.
Similarly,businessandaccountingstudentsfindthatcomputerspreadsheetprogramsareallbutindispensabletomanyaspectsoftheirwork,whilestudentspursuingcareersingraphicarts,marketing,andpublicrelationsfindthatknowledgeofcomputergraphicisimportantEducationmajorslearntodevelopgradingsystemsusingcomputers,whilesocialsciencestudentsusecomputersforanalyzingandgraphicallydisplacingtheirresearchresults.
Itisnowonder,then,thateducatorssupportthepurchaseanduseofmicrocomputersbystudents.AVersatiletool,thecomputercanhelpstudentslearn.Andthatis,afterall,thereasonforgoingtocollege.
56、Theword"literacy"(Line1,Paragraph1)means_________.
A.theabilitytoreadandwrite
57、Themainpurposeofthispassageisto_________.
A.persuadetheeducatorstoincreasecomputeruseintheirownclassroom
B.analyzeadvantagesanddisadvantagesofcomputeruseamongcollegestudents
C.identifysomeofthewaysthatcomputersbenefitcollegestudents
D.describehowcomputerscanbeusedtoteachforeignlanguages
58、Accordingtotheauthor,awordprocessorcanbeusedto_________.
C.reducethepsychologicalburdenofwritingpapers
D.improvethewritingskillsofastudent
59、Inthispassage,thewriter'sargumentisdevelopedprimarilythroughtheuseof_________.
60、Accordingtotheauthor,thereasonforstudentstogotocollegeis_________.
C.toimprovecomputerskills
D.tomakethebestuseofcomputers
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