2015年电大英语阅读4034140专41复习资料精篇 阅读专练.docVIP

2015年电大英语阅读(3)(专)复习资料精篇 阅读专练 英语阅读( 3 ) Passage 1 This is a short passage about Dave , the Disk Doctor. Call the Disk Doctor! 1 Desperate computer users who ‘ lose the data from their disks can get in touch with experts who, for a fee , will recover the lost information. One of these experts is Dave Smith , who , some years ago , set up a company called Dave s Disk Doctor Service Ltd. Dave and a few of his friends work from home and give all the money they earn to charity. The fees are always the same , no matter how precious the data on the disk is. Some people , however , are so grateful that they send extra money to Dave or to the charities his company supports. One oil company offered him ￡ 1 , 000 for his help and a vet sent him a blank check. 2 It would be hard to put a value on the things rescued by the Disk Doctor. There have been disks containing medical research , television scripts , manuscripts of whole books , a comedian s joke collection , a solicitor s papers for a court case , and even Margaret Thatcher s itinerary for a visit to eastern Europe. For this last case , Dave was asked if he would go in person to Mrs. Thatcher s office for security reasons ! 3 Disks are usually sent to the Disk Doctor by post , but sometimes people are in such a hurry that they cant wait for the post. Radio scripts have had to be rushed by taxi to Daves house because they were needed for broadcasting the next day , for example. When the material has been recovered , the disk is returned to the sender with a diagnosis and a prescription for avoiding the problem in future. One grateful client , an author , put a ‘ thank you to Dave in the front of his book. ‘Dave saved me from a cardiac arrest , he wrote. ‘ But ‘ says Dave, ‘most people don t take any notice of the doctor s advice! Read Passage 1 and decide whether the following statements are True or False. Write T for True and F for False against the number of each of the statements on your Answer Sheet. 1. Computer u