首页
登录
职称英语
It is 3 a.m. Everything on the university campus seems ghostlike in the quie
It is 3 a.m. Everything on the university campus seems ghostlike in the quie
游客
2023-07-29
69
管理
问题
It is 3 a.m. Everything on the university campus seems ghostlike in the quiet, misty darkness everything except the computer center. Here, twenty students rumpled(弄皱的,散乱的) and bleary-eyed (视力模糊不清的), sit staring at their consoles, tapping away on the terminal keys. With eyes glued to the video screen, they tap on for hours. For the rest of the world, it might be the middle of the night, but here time does not exist. This is a world to itself. These young computer "hackers" are pursuing a kind of compulsion, a drive so consuming that it overshadows nearly every other part of their lives and forms the focal point of their existence. They are compulsive computer programmers. Some of these students have been at the console for thirty hours or more without a break for meals or sleep. Some have fallen asleep on sofas and lounge chairs in the computer center, trying to catch a few winks but are reluctant to get too far away from their beloved machines.
Most of these students don’t have to be at the computer center in the middle of the night. They aren’t working on assignments. They are there because they want to be they are irresistibly drawn there.
And they are not alone. There are hackers at computer centers all across the country, In their extreme form, they focus on nothing else. They drop out of school and lose contact with friends; they might have difficulty finding jobs, choosing instead to wander from one computer center to another.
"I remember one hacker. We literally had to carry him off his chair to feed him and put him to sleep. We really feared for his health," says a computer science professor at MIT.
Computer science teachers are now more aware of the implications of this hacker phenomenon and are on the lookout for potential hackers and cases of computer addiction(沉溺,上瘾) that are already severe. They know that the case of the hackers is not just the story of one person’s relationship with a machine. It is the story of a society’s relationship to the so-called thinking machines, which are becoming almost ubiquitous(到处存在的). [br] It can be reasonably inferred from the passage that ______.
选项
A、the "hackers" are largely dependent on their teachers to take care of their routine life
B、university computer centers are open to almost everyone
C、university computer centers are expecting outstanding programmers out of the "hackers"
D、the "hacker" phenomenon is partly attributed to the insufficiency of the computer centers
答案
B
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/2880785.html
相关试题推荐
[originaltext]FloridaInternationalUniversityhasopenedwhatitsaysisth
[originaltext]M:Well,Cynthia,ourfirstsemesteratuniversityisalmostove
AttheUniversityofCalifornia,astudentloadedhisclassnotesintoahandhel
[originaltext]Ifyou’vebeenoncampusforverylong,I’mcertainthatyou’
[originaltext]SomestudentsattheOpenUniversityleftschool20yearsago
[originaltext]SomestudentsattheOpenUniversityleftschool20yearsago
[originaltext]FloridaInternationalUniversityhasopenedwhatitsaysist
[originaltext]FloridaInternationalUniversityhasopenedwhatitsaysist
[originaltext]FloridaInternationalUniversityhasopenedwhatitsaysist
[originaltext]Manyuniversitystudentsdislikestudyinghistorybecausetherei
随机试题
From:JakeLoweTo:AnikaAndersenSubject:ThisweekDearMs.Andersen,Ih
Noonecanbe______calmwhenfacingwithagreatdanger.A、veryB、soC、tooD、en
配置路由器接口的提示是()A.router(config)# B.ro
男婴,胎龄291天,出生体重3850g,其体重位于同胎龄标准体重的第80百分位,
一般为T+2或T+3到账的是( )。A.债券型基金 B.货币型基金 C.股票
上述各项中,有助于白血病分型诊断及治疗监测的是( )。A.血象 B.骨髓象
焦亚硫酸钠是一种常用的抗氧剂,最适合用于A.偏酸性溶液B.偏碱性溶液C.不受酸碱
患者,30岁,已婚4年未孕。因停经10周,阴道少量出血来院就诊。查体:体温37.
《国家电网公司变电检测管理规定》规定,以下不负责开展检测装备维护的是()。(
运人托运一件毛重为4千克、体积为40厘米×30厘米×20厘米的货物,自北京运至广
最新回复
(
0
)