题目内容
A mobile phone service which makes your handset (手机) scream when it's been stolen has been started, with its makers claiming it could put an end to mobile theft altogether.
The Remote XT system uses software to link customers' mobile phones directly to a secure remote server, which stores all their data from phone numbers to text messages and e-mails. If the owner's phone is lost or stolen? he can dial a 24-hour call centre and have it registered as stolen. The handset is then disabled, and cannot even be used if a new SIM card is put in. At the same time, the system sets off an alarm sounding like a highpitched (声音尖锐的) scream, which can only be stopped by removing the battery.
Existing data is also wiped off the phone but, because the information has been stored centrally, it can be retrieved as soon as the victim gets a new phone, the system design-ers said.
“By making mobiles unusable to anyone but the rightful owner, the phones become worthless and we will see the market for sto-len handsets stopped once and for all, ”said Mark Whiteman, managing director of Re-mote XT. “Such phones cause disaster for the huge criminal industry that has profited from mobile theft for too long. ”
For the moment the system is aimed at business customers and comes with a fee of 9. 99 pounds per month, possibly available to the majority of average user within two years as mobile technology advances.
According to the latest UK government statistics, mobile phone theft has risen 190 per cent in recent years, with one third of all UK robberies now only involving mobile phones. It's estimated a mobile handset is stolen every 12 seconds in Britain costing UK consumers around 390 million pounds ($ 735 million) every year.
(1) The passage mainly focuses on________.
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A.a mobile phone security system
B.the advance in mobile technology
C.suggestions on mobile phone use
D.mobile phone theft in the UK
(2) Which of the following is NOT true about the Remote XT system?
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A.It uses software to disable customers' stolen phones.
B.It takes remote control of phones sto-len or lost.
C.Owners can get their phones back with the help of it.
D.Now only business customers benefit from it.
(3) The underlined word “retrieved” (in Par-agraph 3) probably means “________”.
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A.destroyed
B.restored
C.examined
D.protected
(4) According to the passage, phone theft in the UK can be best described as________.
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A.severe
B.illegal
C.civil
D.popular
解析:
(1) 主旨大意题。全文主要介绍了“a mobile phone service”,而该服务的实质是“the Remote XT system”,故A项正确。(3) 猜测词义题。从该句中“the information has been stored centrally”可知,原手机信息在“a 24-hour call centre”备份,因此新手机可以“恢复”原来手机的信息。(4) 推理判断题。最后一段主要用数字说明在英国手机盗窃现象较为严重,因此A项符合题意。 |
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DC Hilton was one of the first American to find out that there was money to be made in the middle of the night. 42 years ago be bought a small __1___on US highway 69, in Oklahoma. His___2___customers were truck drivers and___3___salesmen who drank coffee and ate cheese-burgers when they stopped to___4___their journey.
It was they who first tried to____5____Hilton to remain open all night. He thought about it for a while, and then suddenly made up his___6____. He took the door key and threw it across the road. He hasn't closed the door____7___.
Over the years his simple cafe expanded into a 24-hour roadside ____8___,with a 100-seat restaurant, a petrol station, a mini shopping market, a car ___9___for mobile homes and all-night selfhelp laundry(洗衣店).
Hilton was a ___10__in a 24-hour working trend which has now ___11___ around the world. Today not only restaurants but also hanks, supermarkets, mail-order ___12___and many other businesses are___13___to be open all night. But is this really a good thing?
A lot of ____14____has been done in America on the effect of 24-hour working and there is growing ___15____about the long term dangers of society that doesn't sleep.
Americans are said to be___16___20% less than they did 100 years ago, and 55% claim to __17___at least occasionally from overtiredness. ___18____of the worst man-made accidents happened in the last few hours before ___19___, when even the most experienced night-worker has difficult____20____awake.
(1)A.market |
B.business |
C.station |
D.restaurant |
(2)A.main |
B.common |
C.strange |
D.only |
(3)A.shopping |
B.clothing |
C.traveling |
D.cooking |
(4)A.start |
B.break |
C.enjoy |
D.continue |
(5)A.persuade |
B.suggest |
C.order |
D.warn |
(6)A.plan |
B.thought |
C.mind |
D.decision |
(7)A.then |
B.since |
C.later |
D.yet |
(8)A.cafe |
B.building |
C.workshop |
D.hotel |
(9)A.garage |
B.park |
C.repair |
D.rest |
(10)A.pioneer |
B.dealer |
C.master |
D.manager |
(11)A.caught in |
B.caught out |
C.caught on |
D.caught up |
(12)A.shops |
B.firms |
C.markets |
D.departments |
(13)A.ordered |
B.forced |
C.performing |
D.beginning |
(14)A.research |
B.effort |
C.work |
D.information |
(15)A.interest |
B.sense |
C.concern |
D.progress |
(16)A.working |
B.playing |
C.sleeping |
D.relaxing |
(17)A.recover |
B.suffer |
C.return |
D.prevent |
(18)A.Some |
B.Few |
C.None |
D.All |
(19)A.dust |
B.midnight |
C.darkness |
D.dawn |
(20)A.staying |
B.becoming |
C.continuing |
D.insisting |