Section CDirections: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passag

Section C

Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the

The essential problem of man in a computerized age remains the same as it has always been. That problem is not【B1】______ how to be more productive, more comfortable, more content, but how to be more sensitive and more sensible, and more【B2】______ . The computer makes possible a phenomenal leap in human【B3】______ ; it demolishes the fences around the practical and even the【B4】______ intelligence. But the question【B5】______ and indeed grows whether the computer will make it easier or harder for human beings to know who they really are, to identify their real problems, to respond more fully to beauty, to place adequate value on life, and to make their world safer than it now is.

Electronic brains can reduce the profusion of dead ends involved in vital research. But they can't【B6】______ the foolishness and decay that come from the unexamined life. Nor do they connect a man to the things he has to be connected to -- tile reality of pain in others; the possibilities of creative growth in himself; the memory of the race; and the rights of the next generation.

The reason why these matters are important in a computerized age is that there may be a【B7】______ to mistake data for wisdom, just as there has always been a tendency to【B8】______ logic with values, and intelligence with insight.【B9】______ . Facts are terrible things if left sprawling and unattended. 【B10】______ "It requires a very unusual mind", Whitehead said, "to undertake the analysis of a fact." 【B11】______ .

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