题目内容
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(A) Shall I (B) Will I (C)Would you like that I (D) Do you want that I
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It’s parents’ worst nightmare. Their child doesn’t come home one evening and is missing for several days.
When a 14-year-old boy from Atlanta, Georgia disappeared earlier this year, his mother turned to her Smartphone for clues using an app(应用程序) called Family Tracker that helped track his location.
“You can see where your loved ones are without having to call or bother them. ”said Roberto Franceschetti of LogSat, the creators of the Family Tracker, which has more than 100,000 users and is available worldwide.
Parents can track the location of their child on a map, send messages, and even sound an alarm on the phone in a long distance.
“We have an option for the sender to make a very unpleasant, noisy sound. It’s a loud alarm and we repeat that sound every two minutes until the person picks it up, ”he said.
Parents don’t need to own a Smartphone to track their children. The service is also accessible through the web, as long as the phone that is being tracked is running the app.
Family Tracker has an additional service that keeps records of all data from the app for a two-week period, which the company calls GPS breadcrumbs.
“With a subscription(预定), we keep all the locations where people have been on our servers. You can see where your kid has been for the past two weeks. You can find out where someone was at a certain time or when that person was at a specific place, ”Franceschetti explained.
“When somebody gets abducted(劫持), usually whoever does this throws the phone away or takes the battery out. We were hoping that our app would at least provide information on where the person was abducted or where they had been in the past. ”
But will these types of apps let out personal secrets?
“The advantages are huge compared to the disadvantages. Let’s not forget that the person always has to give initial permission—no one can be tracked unless they allow someone to do it. ”said Franceschetti.
【小题1】According to the passage, all of the following about “Family Tracker” are true EXCEPT that __________.
A.it can help parents know where their children are |
B.all parents don’t need to own a Smartphone to track children |
C.parents can use all the services of the app for free |
D.it has little to do with letting out personal secrets |
A.The app will enjoy a great popularity in the future. |
B.The loss of children won’t be a nightmare for parents any more. |
C.The app will repeat the loud alarm continuously whenever parents track children. |
D.The app can keep records of information for more than half a month. |
a. track location b. detect criminals c. send messages
d. protect privacy e. send remote alarm f. record information
A.a, b, c, e | B.a, c, e, f | C.a, c, d, e | D.a, d, e, f |
A nurse took the tired, anxious serviceman to the bedside. “Your son is here,”she said to the old man. She had to repeat the words several times before the patient’s eyes opened.
Heavily drugged with sleep because of the pain of his heart attack, he dimly(隐约) saw the young uniformed Marine standing outside the oxygen tent. He reached out with his hand. The Marine wrapped his toughened fingers around the old man’s weak ones, expressing a message of love and encouragement. The nurse brought a chair so that the Marine could sit beside the bed.
All through the night the young Marine sat there in the poorly lighted ward(病房), holding the old man’s hand and offering him words of love and strength. Occasionally, the nurse suggested that the Marine move away and rest a while. He refused. Now and then she heard him say a few gentle words. The dying man said nothing, only holding tightly to his son all through the night. Along towards dawn, the old man died.
The Marine released the now lifeless hand he had been holding and went to tell the nurse. While she did what she had to do, he waited.
Finally, she returned. She started to offer words of sympathy, but the Marine interrupted her.“Who was that man?”he asked. The nurse was surprised. “He was your father,”she answered. “No, he wasn’t,”the Marine replied. “I never saw him before in my life.”“Then why didn’t you say something when I took you to him?”asked the nurse. “I knew right away there had been a mistake, but I also knew he needed his son, and his son just wasn’t here. When I realized that he was too sick to tell whether or not I was his son, knowing how much he needed me, I stayed.”he answered.
1.Why did the nurse take the Marine to the old man’s bed?
A.Because he was the old man’s son. |
B.Because she knew that he was a warm-hearted man. |
C.Because she couldn’t find anyone else there. |
D.Because she thought he was the old man’s son. |
2.Why did the old man hold the Marine’s hand all through the night?
A.Because he knew he would die the next day. |
B.Because he hadn’t seen his son for a long time. |
C.Because he was dying and mistook him for his son. |
D.Because he enjoyed doing that and so did the Marine. |
3.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A.The Marine didn’t know the old man at all. |
B.The nurse was careless and made a mistake. |
C.The Marine happened to be the old man’s son’s friend. |
D.The old man passed away peacefully and contentedly. |
4.What can we learn from the passage?
A.The next time someone needs you, be there. |
B.All the soldiers are as kind as the Marine. |
C.We’d better not correct someone else’s mistakes. |
D.The young should accompany their parents all the time. |