阅读理解ThemostfrighteningwordsintheEngli

阅读理解The most frightening words in the English language are, “Our puter is down.” You hear it more and more when you are on business. The other day I was at the airport waiting for a ticket to Washington and the girl in the ticket office said, “I’m sorry, I can’t sell you a ticket. Our puter is down.” “If your puter is down, just write me out a ticket.” “I can’t write you out a ticket. The puter is the only one allowed to do so.” I looked down on the puter and every passenger was just standing there drinking coffee and staring at the black screen. Then I asked her, “What do all you people do?” “We give the puter the information about your trip, and then it tells us whether you can fly with us or not.” “So when it goes down, you go down with it.” “That’s good, sir.” “How long will the puter be down?” I wanted to know.“I have no idea. Sometimes it’s down for 10 minutes, sometimes for two hours. There’s no way we can find out without asking the puter, and since it’s down it won’t answer us.” After the girl told me they had no backup(备用) puter, I said. “Let’s forget the puter. What about your planes? They’re still flying, aren’t they?” “I couldn’t tell without asking the puter.” “Maybe I could just go to the gate and ask the pilot if he’s flying to Washington, ” I suggested.“I wouldn’t know what gate to send you to. Even if the pilot was going to Washington, he couldn’t take you if you didn’t have a ticket.” “Is there any other airline flying to Washington within the next few hours?” “I wouldn’t know, ” she said, pointing at the dark screen. “Only ‘IT’ knows. ‘It’ can’t tell me.” By this time there were quite a few people standing in lines. The word soon spread to other travelers that the puter was down. Some people went white, some people started to cry and still others kicked their luggage.1.The best title for the article is _______.A.When the Computer Is DownB.The Most Frightening WordsC.The Computer of the AirportD.Asking the Computer2.What could the girl in the ticket office do for the passengers without asking the puter?A.She could sell a ticket.B.She could write out a ticket.C.She could answer the passengers’ questions.D.She could do nothing.3.Why do you think they had not a backup puter?A.Because it was easy downB.Because it was very expensive.C.Because it was not advanced enough.D.Because it was not as big as the main puter.4.The last paragraph suggests that _______.A.a modern puter won’t be down.B.puters can take the place of humansC.sometimes a puter may bring suffering to peopleD.there will be great changes in puters