Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks from 35 to 44.
WHY I DISLIKE COMPUTERS
Almost everyone says that computers are wonderful and that they are (35) ______ our lives for the better by making everything faster and more reliable, but I am not so sure that this is the (36) ________
The other day I was standing in a large department store waiting to pay for a couple of films for my camera (37) _______ the assistant announced that the computer which controlled the till (38) _______ working. I did not think this was a big problem and I (39)________ to find another counter, but of course, all the machines are part of the same system. So there we were: a shop full of customers, money at the ready, waiting to (40) _______ our purchases, but it was quite clear that none of the assistants knew what to do. They were not allowed to take our money and give to customers a written (41) ______,because the sales wouldn‟t then have been recorded on the computer system. In the end, (42) _______many other people, I left my shopping on the counter and walked out .Don't you think so that's ridiculous? It (43) ________ never have happened before computers, and that, for me, is the problem: we are beginning to depend on these machines so completely that we (44) _______ cannot manage without them anymore.
Điền vào ô 44
A. justly
B. merely
C. only
D. simply
Đáp án là D
Simply= một cách tuyệt đối, merely= only= just= chỉ. Dịch: chúng ta hoàn toàn không thể quản lý được khi thiếu chúng.