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A．Computers will be widely used in work.
B．Workers will use printers at the office.
C．Paperless offices will be popular.
D．Paper-saving offices will flourish.

参考答案A

解析:(9) Bill Gates' vision of a computer on every desk has been more or less realized. Yet most of the folks working at those desks are knee-deep in paper. Hewlett-Packard forecasts that North American office printers alone will print 1.2 trillion sheets this year--an increase of more than 50 percent in five years. Research from a new book, The Myth of the Paperless Office, (10) suggests our increasing use of paper is due to the introduction of the very digital technology that was supposed to wipe it out. The case studies on email in the workplace, for example, show that it can lead to 40 percent increase in paper consumption-and this doesn't take into account the amount of paper used to print information from the Internet. Our attachment to paper is truly amazing. An astonishing proportion of email users, for example,
print off their messages and store them all in filing cabinets. Organizations that used to do massive print runs of documents for meetings now circulate them electronically via their Internets. But those attending the meetings generally
turn up with heaps of paper hot off the nearest laser printer. To the technological rationalist, this behavior seems irrational. Why store email messages in paper files, which take up valuable real estate and are effectively unsearchable?
(11) Why print off bulky documents whose only fate is to be destroyed after the meeting is over? If people love paper,there must be a reason for it. (12) And there is. It is highly portable, and consumes no battery power. And it doesn't have to be turned on before you can read it.
What is Bill Gates' vision according to the speaker?

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单选题

A．Wiping out the use of paper.
B．Attaching paper to computers.
C．Leading to increased use of paper.
D．Decreasing the amount of paper use.

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单选题

A．Store them in the filing cabinets.
B．Destroy them after the meeting.
C．Circulate them among the readers.
D．Read them from time to time.

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单选题

A．Because it is convenient to carry and read.
B．Because it is very energy-saving.
C．Because it is a traditional way to carry information.
D．Because people seldom lose the information on paper.

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