The most frightening words in the English language are “our computer is down.” You hear it

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 at the counter and every passenger was just standing there drinking coffee and staring at the black screen. Then I asked her, “What do you 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 right, 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 is 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 puter, I said, “Let’s forget the puter. What about your planes? They are still flying, aren’t they?”
“I can’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 desk screen. “Only IT knows. It can’t tell me.”
By this time there were quite a few people standing in line. The words soon spread to other travelers that the puter was down. Some people went, some people started to cry and still others kicked their luggage.
【小题1】The word “down” in the sentence ‘Our puter is down.’ means     .A．fallingB．downcastC．dropD．dead【小题2】The best title of the article is     .A．Asking the ComputerB．The Computer of the AirportC．The Most Frightening WordsD．When the Computer Is Down【小题3】What could the girl in the ticket office do for the passengers without asking the puter? A．She could answer the passengers’ questionsB．She could do nothing.C．She could sell a ticket.D．She could write out a ticket.D