题目内容
— You could have asked Mr. Richard for help. He’s kind-hearted.
— Yes. But that _______ him a whole day.
A.would have taken B.had taken
C.would take D.took
A
【解析】
试题分析:考查虚拟语气。句意:—你本可以向Mr. Richard求助,他是一个好心肠的人。—是的。但是那却会花掉他一整天的时间。本句是一个与过去事实相反的虚拟语气。根据句意说明前者根本没有向Mr. Richard求助,那么要花掉Mr. Richard一整天的时间也是不可能的事情,同时这与过去事实相反,故使用情态动词+have done的形式。故A正确。
考点:考查虚拟语气
点评:在虚拟语气里要注意具体的时间,如果是与过去事实相反,那么使用情态动词+have done的形式;如果是与现在事实相反就使用情态动词+动词原形。在具体的语境中要灵活掌握。
Back those photos up
The images were striking. Homes on the East Coast were washed away by Superstorm Sandy. People were in tears, picking up faded photographs, among their only remaining possessions.
If that doesn’t move you to get serious about safekeeping your lifetime of memories, what will? The digital age offers tools never imaginable before—including one-click access to a lifetime of family photos.
Here is a brochure on how to back up (存) your photos and save them online, where they can live forever and be accessible in good times and bad.
Scanning
The first step for those old photos is to scan them and save them to a digital format. Most printers come with scanners these days, so that’s an easy but extremely time-consuming step.
Storing the photos
With your scans in place, import the photos into your computer, and back them up.
You could make multiple copies of the disks and spread them to loved ones. Or you could choose external(外接的) hard drives or USB thumb drive, and add your photo and video collection from your computer.
Online backup
If you need lots of space, look at a pure online backup service, Caronite.
Caronite backs up 300 million files daily. Once you sign up, it starts to pick up everything you have on your hard drive. But photo collection on your computer’s main hard drive charges for $59 a year.
Cloud Storage
For folks who don’t need automatic backup, but instead want to take a more active approach, Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft’s SkyDrive let you store files online by yourself, share and instantly access them. All offer free options—2GB of free storage for Dropbox, 5GB for Google and 7GB for SkyDrive. But if you want more, you need to pay.
Bottom Line
The hard drive or flash drive is the cheapest and easiest. But drives can fail. Online services are more expensive, but more secure. With more of us switching back and forth between our computers, such services are the best way to get access to our data from wherever we are.
【小题1】Why does the author mention Superstorm Sandy?
A.To tell the background of the scanning photos. |
B.To describe a severe natural disaster. |
C.To attract the readers’ interest in the backups. |
D.To win the readers’ sympathy. |
A.Scanning photos take little time but costs a lot. |
B.Caronite charges for backing up photos from hard drive. |
C.Google Drive offers unlimited free photo storage on line. |
D.The hard drive or flash drive is the cheapest and safest. |
A.Dropbox. | B.SkyDrive. | C.Caronite. | D.Flash drive. |
A.introduce some of the storage services |
B.tell real stories about storage services |
C.describe the functions of storage services |
D.argue about the advantage of storage services |