宜川中学2018学年第一学期期中考试
高三英语试卷
II. Grammar and Vocabulary
Section A
There is no denying that students should learn something about how computers work, just as we expect them at least to understand that the internal-combustion engine has something to do with burning fuel, expanding gases and pistons __21__(drive). For people should have some basic idea of how the things that they use do __22__ they do. Further, students might be helped by a course that considers the computer’s impact on society. But that is not what is meant __23__ computer literacy. Computer literacy is not a form of literacy; it is a trade skill that should not be taught as a liberal art.
Learning how to use a computer and learning how to program one are two distinct activities. A case might be made that the competent citizens of tomorrow __24__ free themselves from their fear of computers. But this is quite different from saying that all ought to know how to program one. Leave that to people who have chosen programming as a career. While programming can be lots of fun, __25__ while our society needs some people who are experts at it, the same is true of auto repair and violin-making.