We also know the bug as a fault in a computer program or other design. That meaning dates back long before computers to the laboratory of inventor Thomas Edison In 1878 he explained bugs as “little fault and difficulties” that require “months of anxious watching, study and labor” to overcome in developing a successful product. In 1889 it was recorded that Edison “had been up the two previous nights discovering “a bug” in his phonograph（留声机）”

　　67．Who called insects as bugs in the 19th century?

　　A．The Enlgish.

　　B．The American.

　　C．Gorge Washington. D．The author’s father.

　　68．The underlined words “surveillance device” in paragraph 3 most probably mean

　　.

　　A．a new computer programme

　　B．a clip used by a card sharp to h old cards under the table

　　C．something helping hear others’ words on the phone

　　D．an alarm clock to walk you up

　　69．What does the last paragraph mainly talk about?

　　A．How Edison found a bug. B．More meanings of bug.

　　C．Computers have faults. D．Discovery costs patience.

　　70．From the passage we can infer that

　　A．Gorge Washington found the bug first.

　　B．England is more developed than America.

　　C．The English like animals.

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