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Passage Three

There’s a great story about an old Finnish woman who, without quite realizing it, was using her cell-phone to access the Internet and track her city’s public transit system. When asked why she used the wireless Internet so frequently, she replied, "What are you talking about I don’t know anything about this wireless Internet stuff, I just know the bus is here."
Regardless of whether you want to admit it, a lot of us are like that old Finnish woman. When it comes to new mobile applications, many of us do not realize the capability and power that we hold, literally, in our hands.
What we’re looking at today is the mobile Internet in its infancy. Now that using the Inter- net from home or work has saturated much of society, the next logical step is to be able to use the Net when you’re away from your desktop or laptop. Speech recognition is one way to do this, and there are a number of services, collectively called the "voice Web", that will make this possible. All you do is use a phone or wireless device to call a phone number, and speak commands to an intuitive system. It will then give you the information you’re seeking, using either a synthesized voice or an audio file.
In the United States and Europe, the hot technology for wireless devices is called WAP (Wireless Application Protocol), which is being considered as the world standard.WAP is supported by major phone companies including Nokia, Motorola and Ericsson, and is simply a means of transmitting information, much like HTML is a means of communicating on the Internet.
Currently, wireless Internet connections may give you news, sports scores, stock quotes, and the weather if you’re lucky. But if you’ve ever used this technology, you know it’s slow, costly and doesn’t seem worth the time and effort, if it works at all. "The mobile Internet was never designed to take over surfing the Web from a computer," explains Cherie Gary, spokes woman at Nokia.
All of this technology points to easier living. Perhaps you’ll need to find a restaurant for an occasional business meeting. You’ll press a button on your mobile phone, and access the Internet to pull up a list of great restaurants in your immediate area.You’ll hit another button, say a few words into tile handset and you’ve got a reservation for four.

What is the attitude of the author towards the future of mobile Internet

A.Indifferent.

B.Neutral.

C.Optimistic.

D.Pessimistic.

答案

参考答案:C

解析:作者态度题。尽管文章第五段提出了目前移动因特网的缺点,文章第六段开头作者就指出:“All of this technology points to easier living(这些技术的目的是使我们的生活变得更简单)”,然后讲述厂将来这种技术如何使酒店预定变得十分简单。由此可见,作者对于移动因特网的前途是十分乐观的。

单项选择题 B型题
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Part 1


·Read the.following passages, eight sentences have been removed from the article.
·Choose from the sentences A-H the one whichfits each gap.
·For each gap (1-8) mark one letter (A-H) on the Answer Sheet.
·Do not mark any letter twice.
In the world of entertainment, TV talk shows have undoubtedly flooded every inch of space on daytime television. (1) But no two shows are more profoundly opposite in content, while at the same time standing out above the rest, than the Jerry Springer and the Oprah Winfrey show.
Jerry Springer could easily be considered the king of"trash talk". (2) For example, the show takes the ever-common talk show themes of love, sex, cheating, guilt, hate, conflict and morality to a different level. (3)
Like Jerry Springer, Oprah Winfrey takes TV talk show to its extreme, but Oprah goes in the opposite direction. (4) Topics range from teaching your children responsibility, managing your workweek, to getting to know your neighbors.
Compared with Oprah, the Jerry Springer show looks like poisonous waste being dumped on society. Jerry ends ever with a "final word". (5) Hopefully, this is the part where most people will learn something very valuable.
Clean as it is, the Oprah show is not for everyone. (6) Most of these people have the time, money, and stability to deal with life’s tougher problems. Jerry Springer, on the other hand, has more of an association with the young adults of society. (7) They are the ones who see some value and lessons to be learned underneath the show’s exploitation.
While the two shows are as different as night and day, both have ruled the talk show circuit for many years now. (8) Ironically, both could also be considered pioneers in the talk show world.
  • A. He makes a small speech that sums up the entire moral of the show.
  • B. The show focuses on the improvement of society and an individual’s quality of life.
  • C. The show’s main target audience are middle-class Americans.
  • D. Each one caters to a different audience while both have a p following from large groups of fans.
  • E. The topics on his show are as shocking as shocking can be.
  • F. These are 18-to 20-year-olds whose main troubles in life involve love relationship, sex, money and peers.
  • G. And anyone who watches them regularly knows that each one varies in style and format.
  • H. Clearly, the Jerry Springer show is a display and exploitation of society’s moral catastrophe, yet people are willing to eat up the intriguing predicaments of other people’s lives.