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大学英语-3复习题 Part I Fast Reading Directions: In this part, you will have 10 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions. Mark A (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage; Mark B (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage; Mark C (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage. A Young, Blind Expert on Computers Sometimes, something that is considered to be negative turns out to be an asset on the job. Though he is only 18 years old and blind, Suleyman Gokyigit is among the top computer technicians and programmers at InteliData Technologies Corp., a large software company with several offices across the United States. “After our company combined with another one last October, two different computer networks were driving us crazy,” recalls Douglas Braun, an InteliData vice president. “We couldn’t even send e-mail to each other.” In three weeks, Mr. Gokyigit, a University of Toledo sophomore who works part-time at InteliData’s office in the city, created the software needed to combine the two networks. “None of the company’s 350 other employees could have done the job in three months,” says Mr. Braun. “Suleyman can literally ‘see’ into the heart of the computer.” Mr. Gokyigit’s gift, as Mr. Braun calls it, is an unusual ability to form an idea of the inside of a machine. “The computer permits me to reach out into the world and do almost anything I want to do,” says Mr. Gokyigit, who is a computer science engineering major with straight As. Like most blind people who work with computers, Mr. Gokyigit uses a voice-synthesizer which is an electronic device that can read out loud the video display on his monitor in a mechanical voice. He depends entirely on memory. Turning the synthesizer to top speed, he remembers almost everything he hears, at least until a project is completed. While the synthesizer talks, Mr. Gokyigit mentally “maps” the computer screen with numbe