广东专插本英语历年真题
1998 年广东省普通高等学校本科插班生考试英语试题Part I Reading Comprehension(40%)Passage IThe computer is a wonderful machine.It is the most important invention since the type of engine used incars.Today it has the greatest effect on science,industry,and business,but it is being used more in education andmedicine.By the end of this century it will touch the lives of everyone,even people in distant villages.It is arevolutionary invention.The oldest kind of computer is the abacus used in China since the sixth century.In the seventeenth centuryan adding machine was invented,but the furst large,modern computer was built in 1937.A few years later acomputer could do 5000 additions per second.Now the computations are so fast that they are measured innanoseconds(毫微秒).Today most computers have a memory.They are getting smaller and smaller,and computing faster andfaster.Even in a large computer,the part that does the actual computing is about the size of the end of a finger.Computers can do all kinds of work.When someone buys something in a department store,informationabout the sale goes into a computer,A scientist can talk to the computer about the rocks,and the co