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rough the centre. Passage One Questions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage. Educators today are more and more oftenheard to say that puter literacy is absolutely necessary forcollegestudents. Many even argue that each ining freshman should have permanentaccess to his or her ownmicroputer. What advantages do puters offer thecollege students? Any student who has used a word processorwill know one pelling reason to use a puter: to writepapers. Although notall students feel fortable posing on a word processor, most ,findrevising and editingmuch easier on it. One can alter, insert, or delete just bypressing a few keys, thus eliminating the need to rewrite , since the revision process is less burdensome, students are morelikely to revise as often as isnecessary to end up with the best paperpossible. For these reasons, many freshman English cottrses require the useof aword processor. Computers are also useful in the contextof language courses, where they are used to drill students in programs reinforce ESL(English as a Second Language .instruction, aswell as instrnction in French, German, Spanish, and other languages. By usingthese programs on a regular basis, students can improvetheir proficiency in alanguage while proceeding at their own pace. Science students take advantage ofputers in many ways. Using puter graphic capabilities, forexample, botanystudents can represent and analyze different plant