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大学英语四级阅读模拟考试题-CET4 examination-Passage Two   
    　　Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage.   
    　　In the 16th century, Venetian and French glassmakers perfected a technique of coating glass with an alloy of silver to produce an effective mirror. Mirrors soon proliferated in public spaces and private homes, and owning a pocket or hand mirror became a marker of status. The mirror, you might say, was an early personal technology — ingenious, portable, effective — and like all such technologies, it changed its users. By giving us, for the first time, a readily available image of ourselves that matched what others saw, it encouraged self-consciousness and introspection and, as some worried, excesses of vanity.   
    　　By the 19th century, it was the machines of the Industrial Revolution — the power loom, the motor, the turbine — that prompted concern about the effects of technology on the person. Karl Marx argued that factory work alienated the worker from what he was toiling to produce, transforming him into “a cripple, a monster.” Men were forced to become more like machines: efficient, tireless and soulless.   
    　　Today’s personal technologies, particularly the cellphone and the digital video recorder, have not provoked similar worries. They are marvels of individual choice, convenience and innovation; they represent the democratization of the power of the machine. Our technologies are more intuitive, more facile and more responsive than ever before. In a rebuke to Marx, we have not become the alienated slaves of the machine; we have made the machines more like us and in the process toppled decades of criticism about the dangerous and potentially enervating effects of our technologies.   
    　　16. The word “coat” (Line 1, Para.1) means .   
    　　 A) to cover sth. with a layer of sth. B) to combine two different things   
    　　 C) to make sth. into the shape of a coat D) to put a coat on sth.   
    　　17. Which of the following statement is true according to the text?   
    　　 A) Soon after being invented, mirrors became unpopular among people.      https://www.51lunwen.org/cet4/ 
    　　 B) Mirrors were first invented by French and Vietnamese.   
    　　 C) Karl Marx criticized that factory work had turned the workers into thoughtless monsters.   
    　　 D) The motor is among the machines of ancient inventions.   
    　　18. Why did some people worried that the mirror might be excesses of vanity?   
    　　 A) Because pocket and hand mirror became a marker of status.   
    　　 B) Because mirrors were extremely expensive during that time.   
    　　 C) Because only wealthy people can afford buying a mirror.   
    　　 D) Because mirrors were invented for important figures.   
    　　19. The author’s purpose of writing this article is .   
    　　 A) to give a definition on modern technology &本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。