这个工厂是六十年代建立起来的,当时设备先进,技术力量雄厚,产品销路很广,但是随着时代的发展,这个厂的技术和产品已相对滞后,负债累累,影响到今后的发展。最近有关部门对这个厂动了大手术,裁减了人员,调整了领导班子,充实了技术力量。新的领导决定先走完成技术改造,再开发新产品的新路,加快改革步伐,以新的姿态参加到市场经济竞争的行列中去。
这个工厂在六十年代是:
A. 属于条件最好的
B. 属于条件一般的
C. 属于条件比较差的
D. 属于条件最差的
One pioneer, in particular, who disagrees is David Tebbutt, the founder of Computertown UK. Although many people see this as a successful attempt to bring people closer to the computer, David does not see it that way. He says that Computertown UK was formed for just the opposite reason, to bring computers to the people and make them "people-literate".
David first got the idea when he visited one of America's best-known computer "guru" figures, Bob Albrecht, in the small university town of Palo Alto in Northern California. Albrecht had started a project called Computertown USA in the local library, and the local children used to call round every Wednesday to borrow some time on the computers there, instead of borrowing library books. Albrecht was always on hand to answer any questions and to help the children discover about computers in their own way.
Over here, in Britain, Computertowns have taken off in a big way, and there are now about 40 scattered over the country. David Tebbutt thinks they are most successful when tied to a computer club. He insists there is a vast and important difference between the two, although they complement each other. The clubs cater for the enthusiasts, with some computer knowledge already, who get together and eventually form. an expert computer group. This frightens away non-experts, who are happier going to Computertowns where there are computers available for them to experiment on, with experts available to encourage them and answer any questions; they are not told what to do, they find out.
David Tebbutt finds it interesting to see the two different approaches working side by side. The computer experts have to learn not to tell people about computers, but have to be able to explain the answers to the questions that people really want to know. In some Computertowns there are question sessions, rather like radio phone-ins, where the experts listen to a lot of questions and then try to work out some structure to answer them. People are not having to learn computer jargons, but the experts are having to translate computer mysteries into easily understood terms; the computers are becoming "people-literate".
According to David Tebbutt, the purpose of Computertown UK is to______
A. train people to understand how computers work'
B. make more computers available to people
C. enable more people to fix computers themselves
D. help people find out more about computers