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It was late in the afternoon, and I was putting the final touch on a piece of writing that I was feeling pretty good about. I wanted to save it, but my cursor had frozen. I tried to shut the computer down, andit seized up altogether. Unsure of what else to do, I yanked (用力猛拉) the battery out:
Unfortunately, Windows had been in the midst of a delicate and crucial undertaking. The next morning, when I turned my computer back on, it informed me that a file had been corrupted and Windows would not load. Then, it offered to repair itself by using the Windows Setup CD.
I opened the special drawer where I keep CDs, but no Windows CD in there. I was forced to call the computer company' s Global Support Centre. My call was answered by a woman unnamed, far-off land. I fred it annoying to make small talk with someone when I don' t know what continent they' re standing on. Suppose I were to comment on the beautiful weather we've been having when there was a monsoon at the otber end of the phone? So I got right to the point.
"My computer is telling me a file is corrupted and it wants to fix itself, but I don' t have the Windows Setup CD. "
"So you' re having a problem with your Windows Setup CD. " She has apparently been dozing and, having come to just as the sentence ended, was attempting to cover for her inattention.
It quickly became clear that the woman was not a computer technician. Her job was to serve as a gatekeeper, a human shield for the technicians. Her sole duty, as far as I could tell, was to raise global stress levels.
To make me disappear, the woman:gave me the phone number for Windows' creator, Microsoft. This is like giving someone the phone number for, I don' t know, North America. Besides, the CD worked; I just didn't have it. No matter how many times I repeated my story, we came back to the same place. She was calm and resolutely polite.
When my voice hit a certain decibel (分貝), I was passed along, like a hot, irritable potato, to a technician.
"You don' t have the Windows Setup CD, ma' am, because you don' t need it, " he explained cheerfully.
"Windows came preinstalled on your computer!"
"But I do need it. "
"Yes, but you don't have it. " We went on like this for a while. ,Finally, he offered to walk me through the use of a different CD, one that would erase my entire system. "Of course, you' d lose all your e-mail, your documents, your photos. " It was like offering to drop a safe on my head to cure my headache. "You might be able to recover them, but it would be expensive. " He sounded delighted. "And it' s not coveted by the warranty ( 產品保證書) !" The safe began to seem like a good idea, provided it was full.
I hung up the phone and drove my computer to a small, friendly repair place I' d heard about. A smart, helpful man dug out a Windows CD and told me it wouldn't be a problem. An hour later, be called to let me know it was ready. I thanked him, and we chatted about the weather, which was the same outside my window as it was outside his.
56. Why did the author shut down her computer abruptly?
A. She had saved what she had written.
B. She couldn't move the cursor.
C. The computer refused to work.
D. The computer offered to repair itself.
57. Which of the following is the author' s opinion about the woman at the Global Support Centre?
A. She sounded helpful and knowledgeable.
B. She was there to make callers frustrated.
C. She was able to solve her computer problem. ,
D. She was quick to pass her along to a technician.
58. According to the passage, the solution offered by the technician was __
A. effective
B. economical
C. unpractical
D. unacceptable
59. "It was like offering to drop a safe on my head to cure my headache" in the last but one paragraph means that
A. the technician's proposal would make things even worse
B. the technician' s proposal could eventually solve the problem
C. files stored on her computer were like a safe
D. erasing the entire system was like curing a headache
60. It can be inferred from the passage that the differences between the Global Support Centre and the local repair shop lie in all the following EXCEPT
ciency
B. location
C. Setup CDs
D. attitude
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短文賞析
本文講述了作者在對自己認爲非常滿意的一篇文章收尾時，電腦出問題了，之後與全球技術支持中心的客服聯絡的過程。作者認爲那個女客服一點都不合格，她的解釋只會令人越聽越糊塗。但是接下來女客服把微軟的電話號碼告訴作者之後，技術人員的解釋依然令人費解，甚至最後試圖敷衍了事。經過一番折騰之後，作者送到附近的小店裏維修之後，一切恢復正常。文章帶有幽默諷刺的意味，以兩個人在同一地點談論同一天氣結束。
答案及解析
56.B【解析】第一段中，作者說自己想保存文件，但是光標不動了，死機了。只有把電池拔出強行關機，所以排除A，D。c中說電腦拒絕工作，不合題意。所以本題應選B。
57.B【解析】此題是有關作者態度的問題。由第5、6段可以看出女客服的回答令人很不滿，很沮喪。所以本題應選B。
58.D【解析】此題問技術員的回答如何。文章中“But I do need it.”“ you don’t have it.”We went on like this for a offered to walk me through…可以看出“技術員最後是在敷衍作者，沒有提出一個合理的`解決辦法”。所以本題應選D。
59.A【解析】“It was like offering to drop a safe on my head to cure my headache.”意爲“就像給我提供一個保險箱放我頭上來治癒我的頭痛一樣。”含蓄諷刺地說技術員提供的建議不可採取。所以本題應選A。
60.C【解析】由文中可知全球技術支持中心跟當地修理店的區別在於，當地修理店效率高，地點近，態度好。題目問的是除了哪個選項以外，其他都是二者的不同。所以本題應選C。
