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A more recent computer innovation, desktop publishing, supplies one good reason for those who write for a living to buy a PC. Desktop publishing is a deceptively simple description for an extremely complex group of hardware and software tools. You can now write text, edit text, draw illustrations, incorporate photographs, design page layouts, and print a finished document with a relatively inexpensive computer and laser printer. Although the new technology offers new freedom, there is a price to be paid for this freedom.
With total control comes total responsibility. In fact, the issue of social responsibility in our new computer age has long been a topic of debate among computer enthusiasts. Some people are concerned with the long-term social effects of the so-called computer revolution. Ironically, many PC pioneers who built and marketed the first machines were 60s-style. advocates of social change. They claim that while personal computer technology has the potential to make society more equal, it's having the opposite effect since upper-middle-class people can afford them and lower-class people cannot.
In addition, the ways that computers are used to monitor the activities of their users have evoked anxiety about the machine. Over 7 million Americans now have their work paced, controlled, and monitored by computers. A computer is more restrictive and powerful in the way it controls people than the old-fashioned assembly line. This can lead to what some have called "tech-stress". Irritated eyes, back problems, and other physical symptoms have also been associated with the extensive use of computers. Although the personal computer may not have had the impact some predicted a decade ago, the combination of computer technology with satellites and cable does promise innovations in the mass media that would have seemed astonishing just a few short years ago.
The dramatic growth of the business dealing in video games is the result of ______.

A. the development of the computer industry
B. the development of wireless technology
C. the decline in the movie industry
D. the depression in the entertainment business

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What's the advantage that desktop publishing brings people?

A. It makes home banking a reality.
B. It provides a method for producing professional-looking documents.
C. It makes it possible for people to receive newspapers electronically.
D. It makes it possible for people to bring office work home.

The purpose of this passage is to tell readers ______.

A. how to help the hard of hearing
B. that people who lose their hearing have to learn new ways of communicating
C. that a deaf person has to lip-read even when using a hearing aid
D. that people who lose their hearing have to learn new ways of communicating

The consumers' first motivation in buying personal computers was to ______.

A. play video games
B. make writing easier for themselves
C. facilitate their entrance into the stock market
D. transmit printed information

Why might deaf people's sense of failure increase?

A. Because they cannot hear well when they go to the cinema.
Because their hearing aids ate not effective.
C. Because they can not see the speaker's mouth in order to lip-read.
D. Because they will not be able to hear very well and this may make them feel particularly conscious of their handicap.

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