【正文】 more accessibleB. will be written off from school curriculaC. is now mainly for the white and the wealthyD. is absolutely unnecessary in high schoolsPassage TwoYou can’t predict the future, but in Silicon Valley you can invent it. This is a popular saying at some panies that deliver digital delights. But underneath the surface of modernity, openness and progress there’s a problem that technology can’t fix. Relatively young white males overwhelmingly run Silicon Valley firms and are stealing our future.Facebook is more than a social hub. It has bee an important centralizing authority for news. More than 40% of American adults rely on the social network to stay on top of the news. However, its trending news stories are softly manipulated by freewilled people.Another example of Silicon Valley bias is the almost plete absence of the female perspective. These large panies are really designing the future unless the many can introduce the few to some more diverse perspectives about what’s useful or important.Another big problem is that these corporations seem to know very little or care even less about other people. This bold claim has some basis in brain science ––– all tech people are slightly autistic. Autism (自閉癥) can be a useful trait for seeking technical brilliance, but bees an obstacle if a general naivet233。北京林業(yè)大學(xué)2017—2018學(xué)年第 1 學(xué)期學(xué)位考試試卷試卷名稱： 碩士英語一外班級 學(xué)號 姓名 成績 試卷說明：1. 本次考試為 閉 卷考試。本試卷共計 8 頁，共 7 大部分，請勿漏答；2. 考試時間為 150 分鐘，請掌握好答題時間；3. 答題之前，請將試卷和答題紙上的考試班級、學(xué)號、姓名填寫清楚；4. 本試卷所有試題答案寫在 答題紙 上，否則視為無效；5. 答題完畢；請將試卷和答題紙正面向外對疊交回；不得帶出考場。 about human beings is translated directly into the design of products and services used worldwide.How digital technologies enhance or diminish our humanity depends largely upon how much developers of technologies care about their fellow beings.Privacy is a good example. If internet culture is autistic, this could explain how some panies can regard privacy as accidental damage, how some panies constantly ignore or offend customers, and how some technology panies can’t see that an open, connected and copyrightfree world isn’t necessarily better for everyone.Jonathan Franzen has said that the internet is “an incredible concentrator of wealth in the hands of the few while giving the appearance of voice and the appearance of democracy to people who are in fact being exploited by the technologies.”But if you’re an autistic corporation, you probably can’t see that “free” can e at a cost, that some privacy is fundamental to functioning government, that physical presence can matter or that some people don’t want to be online all the time or read everything on a screen.After all, technology is a choice, not a destiny. We shape our future by the decisions we make today. We still have time to push things along in any direction we wish, manding, altering and deleting technologies as we see fit.6. Silicon Valley is mentioned in this passage to ______.A. highlight its important role in digital technologyB. list the digital delights that have been deliveredC. impress us with the young executives thereD. illustrate its profound influence on our future7. It can be inferred from Paragraph Two that Facebook ______.A. has been a reliable source of newsB. can determine the popularity of newsC. is no longer a social hub in the USD. is the fastest source of news reports8. According to Paragraph Four, autism ______.A. poses a big challenge to technical breakthroughsB. can hinder product design and services in some casesC. is a strong personality trait of all brilliant scientistsD. is prevalent among people engaged in brain science9. The central idea of Paragraph Six is that ______.A. technology panies care about our privacyB. the internet culture is by no means autisticC. technological advances will enhance humanityD. our humanity is diminished by tech panies10. This passage is intended to argue that young white males in Silicon Valley ______.A. can serve as role models worldwideB. are stealing the future from the othersC. cannot shape the future of any of usD. can help to make our future much betterPassage ThreeThe Department for Education is considering new penalties for students who plagiarise essays, for 50,000 students had been caught cheating on their university degrees in the three years before. With a generation paying 163。50,000 cost of a degree, rather than the parative pennies spent on stolen essays, might be the first place to look.11. Cheating as mentioned in this passage mainly involves . A. taking others’ ideas as one’s own B. copying answers from class notes C. receiving text messages on tests D. helping each other on a test12. The consequences of the rising tuition fees include the following except . A. weakened interest of students in learning B. a heavier financial burden on poor students C. harsher punishment for cheating on essays D. the belief that a college degree is a modity13. Paragraph Five is concerned with . A. how to buy a degree online B. how to plagiarize essays C. how to use references online D. how to write a good thesis14.