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編號第 22 題至第 25 題為篇章結構，各題請依文意，從四個選項中選出最合適者，各題答案內容不重複 More than 40 years ago, Gordon Moore, co-founder of the computer-chip maker Intel, observed that computerprocessing power roughly doubles every two years. 22 At this very moment, heavily caffeinated softwareengineers are designing programs that will overtax and befuddle your new turbo-powered PC when you try runningthem a few years from now. 23 According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, an estimated 30 to 40million PCs will be ready for “end-of-life management” in each of the next few years. Computers are hardly the only electronic hardware hounded by obsolescence. A switchover to digitalhigh-definition television broadcasts is scheduled to be complete by 2009, rendering inoperable TVs that functionperfectly today but receive only an analog signal. 24 Moreover, in the fashion-conscious mobile market, 98million U.S. cell phones took their last call in 2005. All told, the EPA estimates that in the U.S. that year, between 1.5and 1.9 million tons of computers, TVs, VCRs, monitors, cell phones, and other equipment were discarded. 25 Sowhat happens to all this junk? 
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(A) An unstated corollary to “Moore’s law” is that at any given time, all the machines considered state-of-the-artare simultaneously on the verge of obsolescence.
(B) If all sources of electronic waste are tallied, it could total 50 million tons a year worldwide, according to theUN Environment Programme.
(C) Many governments are conscious that electronic waste wrongly handled damages the environment and humanhealth.
(D) As viewers prepare for the switch, about 25 million TVs are taken out of service yearly.

參考答案

答案：A
難度：困難0.36
統計：A(18),B(14),C(10),D(2),E(0)

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