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Everyone must have had at least one personal experience with a computer erro
Everyone must have had at least one personal experience with a computer erro
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2023-07-20
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Everyone must have had at least one personal experience with a computer error by this time. Bank balances are suddenly reported to have jumped from $379 into the millions, appeals for charitable contributions are mailed over and over to people with crazy sounding names at your address, department stores send the wrong bills, utility companies write that they’re turning everything off, that sort of thing. If you manage to get in touch with someone and complain, you then get instantaneously typed, guilty letters from the same computer, saying, "Our computer was in error, and an adjustment is being made in your account."
These are supposed to be the sheerest, blindest accidents. Mistakes are not believed to be the normal behavior of a good machine. If things go wrong, it must be a personal, human error, the result of fingering a button getting stuck, someone hitting the wrong key. The computer, at its normal best, is infallible (没有错误的).
I wonder whether this can be true. After all, the whole point of computers is that they represent an extension of the human brain, vastly improved upon but nonetheless human, superhuman maybe. A good computer can think clearly and quickly enough to beat you at chess, and some of them have even been programmed to write obscure verse. They can do anything we can do, and more besides.
It is not yet known whether a computer has its own consciousness, and it would be hard to find out about this. When you walk into one of those great halls now built for the huge machines, and standing listening, it is easy to imagine that the faint, distant noises are the sound of thinking, and the turning of the spools (线轴) gives them the look of wild creatures rolling their eyes in the effort to concentrate, choking with information. But real thinking and dreaming are other matters. On the other hand, the evidences of something like an unconscious, equivalent to ours, are all around, in every mail. As extensions of the human brain, they have been constructed the same property of error, spontaneous, uncontrolled, and rich in possibilities. [br] Who are supposed to be responsible for the mistakes mentioned in the first paragraph?
选项
A、People who use the computers.
B、The computers that broke down suddenly.
C、The manufacturers of computers.
D、Nobody, because they are all unexpected accidents.
答案
A
解析
文章第二段第二和第三句提到,人们认为错误并非好机器的正常行为。如果出错,一定是人为的,是按键被卡住了的后果,是有人按错了键。由此可推断出,电脑出错是人为造成的,A)“使用电脑的人”与原文意思相符,故为答案。B)与原文相反,故排除。C)在文中未提及,故排除。D)是针对the sheerest,blindest accidents设的干扰项。
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