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EXERCISES 7 I. Give brief answers to the following questions, using your own words as much as possible:　 1) What does a miracle chip look like? What is it made of?　 2) What was the computer of 25 years ago like? What is the miracle chip of today like?　 3) Describe a day of Mr. A and his wife.　 4) How will a household computer work?　 5) How will a hospital computer work?　 6) How will the tiny computers help motorists of the future? 　 7) What role will computers play in education?　 8) What is the significance of the computer revolution?Ⅱ.Paraphrase:　 1) The microelectronic revolution promises to ease, enhance and simplify life in ways undreamed of even by the utopians.　 2) The custom-made object, now restricted to the rich, will be within everyones reach.　 3) The computer might appear to be a dehumanizing factor, but the opposite is in fact true.　 4) In no area of American life is personal service so precious as in medical care.　 5) The widest benefits of the electronic revolution will accrue to the young.　 6) For the mighty army of consumers, the ultimate applications of the computer revolution are still around the bend of a silicon circuit.Ⅲ. Translate the following into Chinese:　 1) Just as the Industrial Revolution took over an immense range of tasks from mens muscles and enormously expanded productivity, so the microcomputer is rapidly assuming huge burdens of drudgery from the human brain and thereby expanding the minds capacities in ways that man has only begun to grasp.　 2) Such painless, productive awakenings will in time be a familiar thing. And, barring headaches, tummy aches and heartaches, the American day should proceed as smoothly as it begins.　 3) Public education, so often a dreary and capricious process in the U. S., may be invested with the inspiriting quality of an Oxford tutorial – from preschool on.　 4) Certainly the miracle chip will affect American life in ways both benign and productive. The computer revolution is st