2015年雅思阅读T/F/NG模拟试题

ALmost everyone with orwithout a computer is aware of the latest technological revolution destined tochange forever the way in which humans communicate, namely, the InformationSuperhighway, best exemplified by the ubiquitous Internet. Already, millions ofpeople around the world are linked by computer simply by having a modem and anaddress on the `Net", in much the same way that owning a telephone linksus to almost anyone who pays a phone bill. In fact, since the computerconnections are made via the phone line, the Internet can be envisaged as anetwork of visual telephone links. It remains to seen in which direction theInformation Superhighway is headed, but many believeit is the educational hopeof the future.

The World WideWeb, an enormous collection of Internet addresses or sites, all of which can beaccessed for information, has been mainly responsible for the increase ininterest in the Internet in the 1990s. Before the World Wide Web, the`Net" was comparable to an integrated collection of computerizedtypewriters, but the introduction of the `Web" in 1990 allowed not onlytext links to be made but also graphs, images and even video.

A Web siteconsists of a `home page", the first screen of a particular site on thecomputer to which you are connected, from where access can be had to othersubject related `pages"(or screens) at the site and on thousands of othercomputers all over the world. This is achieved by a process called`hypertext". By clicking with a mouse device on various parts of thescreen, a person connected to the `Net" can go traveling, or surfing"through a of the screen, a person connected to the `Net" can go traveling,or `surfing" through a web of pages to locate whatever information isrequired.

Anyone can setup a site; promoting your club, your institution, yourcompany"s products or simply yourself, is what the Web and the Internet isall about. And what is more, information on the Internet is not owned orcontrolled by any one organization. It is, perhaps, true to say that no one andtherefore everyone owns the `Net". Because of the relative freedom ofaccess to information, the Internet has often been criticised by the media as apotentially hazardous tool in the hands of young computer users. Thisperception has proved to be largely false however, and the vast majority ofusers both young and old get connected with the Internet for the dual purposesfor which it was intended - discovery and delight.

　　【TRUE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN】

yone isaware of the Information Superhighway.

g theInternet costs the owner of a telephone extra money.

rnetcomputer connections are made by using telephone lines.

WorldWide Web is a network of computerised typewriters.

rding tothe author, the Information Superhighway may be the future hope of education.

processcalled`hypertext"requires the use of a mouse device.

Internetwas created in the 1990s.

`homepage"is the first screen of a `Web"site on the `Net".

media hasoften criticised the Internet because it is dangerous.

10. The latesttechnological revolution will change the way humans communicate.

　　【Answer Keys】

1.F 3.T 4.F 5.T 6.T 7.F 8.T 9.F 10.T