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Tolive in the United States today is to

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问题 Tolive in the United States today is to gain an appreciation for Dahrendorf'sassertion that social change exists everywhere.Technology,the application ofknowledge for practical ends,is a major source of social change.Yet wewould do well to remind ourselves that technology is a human creation;it doesnot exist naturally.A spear or a robot is as much a cultural as a physicalobject.Until humans use a spear to hunt game or a robot to produce machineparts,neither is much more than a solid mass of matter.For a bird looking foran object on which to rest,a spear or robot serves the purpose equally well.Theexplosion of the Challenger space shuttle and the Russian nuclear accident atChernobyl drive home the human quality of technology;they provide cases inwhich well-planned systems suddenly went haywire and there was no ready hand toset them right.Since technology is a human creation,we are responsible forwhat is done with it.Pessimists worry that we will use our technology eventuallyto blow our world and ourselves to pieces.But they have been saying this fordecades,and so far we have managed to survive and even flourish.Whether wewill continue to do so in the years ahead remains uncertain.Clearly,theimpact of technology on our lives deserves a closer examination.Fewtechnological developments have had a greater impact on our lives than thecomputer revolution.Scientists and engineers have designed specializedmachines that can do the tasks that once only people could do.There are thosewho assert that the switch to an information-based economy is in the same campas other great historical milestones,particularly the Industrial Revolution.Yet when we ask why the Industrial Revolution was a revolution,we find that itwas not the machines.The primary reason why it was revolutionary is that itled to great social change.It gaverise to mass production and,through mass production,to a society in whichwealth was not confined to the few.Insomewhat similar fashion,computers promise to revolutionize the structure ofAmerican life,particularly as they free the human mind and open newpossibilities in knowledge and communication.The Industrial Revolutionsupplemented and replaced the muscles of humans and animals by mechanicalmethods.The computer extends this development to supplement and replace someaspects of the mind of human beings by electronic methods.And it's thecapacity of the computer for solving problems and making decisions thatrepresents its greatest potential and that poses the greatest difficulties inpredicting the impact on society.Theauthor considers the introduction of the computer as a revolution mainlybecause_______.查看材料A.itgives rise to mass productionB.itcan do the tasks that could only be done by people beforeC.ithas helped to switch to an information technologyD.ithas a great potential impact on society
选项 A.itgives rise to mass production
B.itcan do the tasks that could only be done by people before
C.ithas helped to switch to an information technology
D.ithas a great potential impact on society
答案 D
解析 细节题。根据第三段中的“Few technological developments have had a greater impact on ourlives than the computer revolution”即几乎没有什么技术发展能比计算机革命对我们的生活造成的影响更大了，以及“The primary reason why it was revolutionary is that it led to greatsocial change”可知，工业革命之所以是一场革命，主要原因是它引起了巨大的社会变革。计算机对人类社会生活产生了巨大的影响，所以计算机的引进也是一场革命。故本题选D。A项的主语是工业革命而不是计算机革命。B项的主语是specialized machines而不是computer。C项表述与原文不符。
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