题目内容
Bar Code
All the packets you buy in a supermarket carry a bar code.This code is scanned (扫描) by laser light and the brand and product names are given to the customer with the price.The people running the store can keep a continuous check of how many packets of each product and of size are on the shelves.Special supermarket checkouts are needed to read the code.
The code is a mixture of bar and space width.It is printed onto the package and cannot be written by hand.
A bar code showing the Australian Product Number (APN) symbol, made up of vertical (直的) stripes and spaces.
The Australian Product Number, which you see in supermarkets, is made up of 13 digits (numbers).For example: 9300663271733 means:
93 = country code.Australia is 93, New Zealand is 94.
00663 = manufacture's code--all products from this maker have this code number.
27173 = product number and size tells what the product is, and the size of the article.
3 = check digit--from the addition of some previous digits.This check's to make sure that the code has been read correctly.
1.Bar Codes are made up of ________.
A.13 equally spaced bars
B.13 numbers matching 13 even bas
C.a mixture of bars and space widths
D.a mixture of equal spaced, varying width bars
2.It is NOT possible to ________.
A.have Bar Codes for all supermarket packets
B.make Bar Codes, using more than one zero
C.buy goods using foreign Bar Codes
D.draw your own Bar Codes
3.The following Bar Code informs the supermarket manager that the ________.
9312345678907
A.product has no APN symbol
B.goods came from New Zealand
C.product was produced in Australia
D.particular goods are almost out of date.
CDC
Barcodes(条形码) aren’t given much thought by the majority of consumers, but these codes were fairly recently applied in a working fashion in 1970.
A small food store owner decided one day that keeping records of the inventory(存货) of his stock and the associated prices were an extremely laborious process, and so, in 1948, he contacted The Drexel Institute of Technology in a bid to work towards a solution. Bernard Sliver rose to the challenge and set out to study the problem and began working on a solution involving an automatic way of keeping track of items that had been sold. Sliver and a group of students from the institute realized their answer in the form of ultraviolet light (紫外线), ink and a scanner.
The system worked initially, but possessed some negatives. It was incredibly costly to carry out on a large scale and the system was also unstable. If the invention was to become commonplace(寻常的事)in grocery stores, these two problems had to be solved.
The patent (专利) for the bar code system was filed by Sliver and one of his students, Woodland. The patent was not granted immediately; in fact, it took three years for the patent agency to grant their invention patent for the barcode, occurring on 7th October, 1952.
Despite the patent being issued, the system was still not welcomed by the majority of store owners. It was not until 1966 that the system began moving its way into more and more grocery stores. This system was soon criticized, as there was no central mechanism for controlling uniformly(统一地)coded items. In 1970, Logicom developed the Universal Grocery Products Identification code( UGOIC), soon shortened to Universal Identification Number (UPC). It was Marsh’s superstore, in Troy, which was the very first store to install this complex barcode reading system, and its popularity has soared(升温) ever since, and is obviously now commonplace in all types of stores worldwide.
【小题1】What is stressed in the second paragraph?
A.The heavy work of store owners. |
B.The function of ultraviolet light, ink and a scanner. |
C.The origination of barcodes. |
D.Bernard Sliver’s education background. |
A.It was expensive to be applied on a large scale. |
B.It was a laborious process. |
C.The system was not stable. |
D.It lacked a central mechanism. |
A.1948 | B.1952 | C.1966 | D.1970 |
A.To tell people that failure is the mother of success. |
B.To praise scientists’ efforts in making people’s lives easier. |
C.To describe shop owners’ opinions of barcodes. |
D.To provide information about the development of barcodes. |
Barcodes (条形码) aren’t given much thought by the majority of consumers, but these codes were fairly recently applied in a working fashion in 1970.
A small food store owner decided one day that keeping records of the inventory (存货) of his stock and the associated prices were an extremely laborious process, and so, in 1948, he contacted the The Drexel Institute of Technology in a bid to work towards a solution. Bernard Sliver rose to the challenge and set out to study the problem, and began working on a solution involving an automatic way of keeping track of items that had been sold. Silver and a group of students from the institute realized their answer in the form of ultraviolet light (紫外线), ink and a scanner.
The system worked initially, but possessed some negatives. It was incredibly costly to carry out on a large scale and the system was also unstable. If the invention was to become commonplace (寻常的事) in grocery stores, these two problems had to be solved.
The patent (专利)for the bar code system was filed by Sliver and one of his students, Woodland. The patent was not granted immediately; in fact it took three years for the patent agency to grand their invention patent for the barcode, occurring on 7th October, 1952.
Despite the patent being issued, the system was still not welcomed by the majority of store owners. It was not until 1966 that the system began moving its way into more and more grocery stores. This system was soon criticised, as there was no central mechanism for controlling uniformly coded items. In 1970, Logicorn developed the Universal Grocery Products Identification code (UGOIC), soon shortened to Universal Identification Number (UPC). It was Marsh’s superstore, in Troy, which was the very first store to install this complex barcode reading system, and its popularity has soared (升温) ever since, and is obviously now commonplace in all types of stores worldwide.
【小题1】What is stressed in the second paragraph?
A.The heavy work of store owners. |
B.The function of ultraviolet light, ink and a scanner. |
C.The origination of barcodes |
D.Bernard Silver’s education background. |
A.It was expensive to be applied on a large scale. |
B.It was a laborious process. |
C.The system was not stable. |
D.It lacked a central mechanism. |
A.To tell people that failure is the mother of success. |
B.To praise scientists’ efforts in making people’s lives easier. |
C.To describe shop owners’ opinions of barcodes. |
D.To provide information about the development of barcodes. |