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From e - mail to on - line shopping, you may think you've heard everything there to know about the electronic frontier (新领域). But with hundreds of thousands of Web pages being added weekly, there are plenty of surprises out there. Here are some of the most intriguing(有迷惑力的).
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Put your kid on a greeting card. Here is how: simply take some pictures with a regular camera, and then ask the photo service to develop them digitally (数字化). For a small fee, you'll receive your photos on a disk, Put that into your computerand, with a few clicks of the mouse, you can view your photos on the screen. With a few more keystrokes, you can attach (使……附在) the photos to e-mail and send them to friends and relatives worldwide.
Sign on to one or several greeting card's Web sites (www. cardcentral. net is an index of more than 1200 electronic card sites) and create an electronic birthday or holiday card. Using your digital photos, you can paste your grandchildren onto the cover.
If you don't want to use your own photos, go to cards. amzon.com to browse (浏览) hundreds of images in over 30 categories
all of which you can attach to an electronic greeting card for free. For a nominal fee you can choose from a library of 75,000 images as www.photodisc.com.
Call Australia for free. To have a telephone conversation over the Internet, the person you want to talk to no longer needs a computer. Now all you need to talk to someone in Sydney is one computer with speakers, a microphone, a sound card and some software (available at www. vocaltec.com or microsoft.com). Typically, you'll pay a monthly fee (usually under $ 20 ) to a service provider, but after that, the calls themselves are local. Sound quality is the same as that of a cell phone.
Even if you don't have a computer, you can still use the Web to reduce your long distance phone costs. Some companies offer a service that lets you use an ordinary phone to call another ordinary phone, but charge only a few cents per minute for U. S. calls, because they send them through the Internet.
Today 48 percent of American homes have computers
a figure that is expected to climb to 60 percent by 2003.And by the end of the next decade, Americans will likely be spending more time shopping, banking, investing and learning on the Internet than in the real world. If you can't do or find something on the Net today, you probably can tomorrow.
1.Over the Internet, you ________.
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A.can hear everything there
B.will meet with plenty of surprises which come out every week
C.will hear the things about the electronic frontier
D.can find some things are very interesting
2.From the passage we can infer that ________.
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A.fewer people will use the Internet in the following ten years
B.more people will study in the regular school by the end of the next decade
C.fewer people will go to the regular school in the following ten years
D.more money will be needed for a long distance call by the end of the next decade
3.If you want to attach a photo to your e - mail, you have to ________ it.
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4.Which of the following is NOT true?
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A.A telephone conversation over the Internet can be carried out without computers.
B.Over the Internet, the receiver of the phone conversation doesn't need a computer.
C.The phone conversations over the Internet are much cheaper.
D.The long - distance calls are local themselves.
5.What is the best title for this passage?
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A.From E - mail to on - Line Shopping
B.Surprising Things You Can Do on - Line
C.Kids on Greeting Cards
D.Free Calls over the Internet
科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:053
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In the 1940s, Pinehaven Park was one of Crafton City's loveliest recreation(娱乐)areas. Over 40 acres of woods and fields were open to the public. In the 1950s, part of the park was taken over by Crafton City's garbage. Fifteen acres were to be used for landfill disposal(理置). As time went on, more and more of the park was used for garage disposal and less for recreation. Two years ago, the park was closed to the public for good. Along with household garbage, industrial chemicals had for years been dumped (倾倒)in the Pinehaven landfill. These poisonous chemicals had begun to seep(渗)back up through the soil. All of Pinehaven Park had become dangerously polluted.
Last year, the fish in the Crafton River began to die. After a series of investigations(研究), it became clear that the people of Crafton City were not to blame. 100~150 miles upstream, big paper mills were dumping industrial wastes into the river. Little by little, the level of poison in the river began to rise. Finally, it became so polluted that the fish themselves could no longer survive.
Downtown Crafton used to be a quiet area. Ten years of remarkable growth changed that in a big hurry. But with Crafton City's new prosperity(繁荣)came a new problem: air pollution. And it is a serious problem. Air pollution levels in Crafton are regularly reaching those of the nation's large industrial cities.
(1)Which of the following best states the central idea of the passage?
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A.Chemical dumping is a serious threat to Crafton City's soil.
B.The rapid growth of industry has brought air pollution to Crafton City.
C.The disposal of garbage can destroy recreation areas.
D.Industrial growth and progress have resulted in the pollution of Crafton City's water, air, and soil.
(2)According to the passage, what portion of the park had originally been marked for use as a garbage dump?
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A.Less than half B.Exactly half
C.About one third D.Most of it
(3)As it is used in the passage, the phrase“for good”means ________.
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A.practically B.for ever
C.thoroughly D.advantageously
(4)According to the passage, one result of dumping industrial chemicals into the landfill was that ________.
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A.the land became unsafe for humans
B.the animals on the land died
C.the poisonous chemicals were washed into the nearby river
D.the smoke from the chemicals polluted the air surrounding the landfill
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科目:高中英语 来源:四川省绵阳中学2009-2010学年高一下学期入学考试英语试题 题型:050
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