II.Read the following conversations carefully and complete the comprehensi ve exercises. prefix="o" ns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" ?xml:namespace> 1. City Living – The first word processor Mrs. Morgan: Good. So change the first part, and make those corrections, and your paper will be great. Tara: OK. Thanks for all your help, Professor Morgan. I’ll e-mail my paper to you later today. Mrs. Morgan: You know, technology is amazing. In high school I used to write my term papers on a typewriter. Tara: It must have taken a long time to write a paper on a typewriter. Mrs. Morgan: Well, I was pretty fast, but I made some mistakes. Actually, the typewriters weren’t that bad. Now, as for the first computers... Oh my Gosh! Tara: What do you mean? Mrs. Morgan: The first computers were so unreliable. They used to crash all the time. And they were not as affordable or as fast as they are now. Tara: Mine’s pretty fast, but not as fast as some of the newer, more expensive ones. Mrs. Morgan: I know! And nowadays, almost everyone has a computer. In those days, nobody had their own computer. We used to use the ones at the university. Tara: In the computer lab? Mrs. Morgan: Yeah, that’s all we had. I’ll never forget, one spring, during final exams. Everybody was working on their term papers, and the electricity went out! Tara: So? No big deal. Laptops have batteries. Mrs. Morgan: Yes, but remember, in those days we didn’t have laptops. If your computer crashed, you lost everything. Tara: Everything? Mrs. Morgan: Everything. We used to lose information all the time. But that time it was terrible. Everybody lost their papers that afternoon. Including me. Tara: What did you do? Mrs. Morgan: I went back to the good old-fashioned way. Tara: You mean typewriters? Mrs. Morgan: Nope. I used something more affordable, portable, reliable, disposable—something that always worked. Tara: What was that? Mrs. Morgan: (holds up pencil and paper) The first word processor. Direction: c ircle a , b , or c . 1. What did the professor use to write her term papers when she was in high school? a. a computer b. a typewriter c. a word processor 2. What’s the professor’s opinion of the typewriters she used in high school? a. They were OK. b. They were really bad. c. They were amazing. 3. What does the professor say about the first computers? a. They were fast. b. They were unreliable. c. They were affordable. 4. What happened one spring when the professor was working on a term paper? a. The batteries in her laptop died. b. Her typewriter broke. c. The electricity went out. 5. What did the professor use to finish writing her paper? a. a laptop b. a typewriter c. a paper and pencil