首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
After the earthquake, the text messages came streaming in to 4636 — reports of trapped people, fires, polluted water sources, an
After the earthquake, the text messages came streaming in to 4636 — reports of trapped people, fires, polluted water sources, an
admin
2013-07-30
28
问题
After the earthquake, the text messages came streaming in to 4636 — reports of trapped people, fires, polluted water sources, and requests for food, water and medical supplies. Hundreds of volunteers translated them from Creole and French into English, tagged them with a location and passed them on to aid agencies on the ground. Yet not one of the volunteers was anywhere near Haiti.
The 4636 texting service is part of a new generation of web-based efforts to help disaster relief that has emerged from the revolution in texting, social networking and crowdsourcing. Its impact on the ground is tangible(确凿的). For example, a Haitian clinic texted 4636 that it was running low on fuel for its generator. Within 20 minutes the Red Cross said it would resupply.
4636 is run by a small organization called Ushahidi.com, originally set up in Kenya to gather reports of violence after the 2008 election. Within days of the earthquake on 12 January that flattened Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince and numerous surrounding towns, it had set up a Haitian operation and recruited hundreds of volunteers to help translate messages, many of them Haitians living in the U.S. The service is free, courtesy of Digicell, Haiti’s largest mobile network operator, which had 70 per cent of its network running within 24 hours of the quake.
Nicolas di Tada, who helped set up 4636 on the ground in the first days after the disaster, says that was the easy part. "The challenge was making responders on the ground aware of us." A stroke of luck made a big difference. One of the first texts was from a hospital which had 200 beds, and doctors, nurses and medical supplies on standby, but no patients, because hardly any relief agencies knew they were there. Forwarding that message on told a large number of organization about 4636. Now, radio stations help spread the word.
As people generally don’t send messages to say their request has been fulfilled, Ushahidi has no way of knowing how successful it has been. Still, "the system is unprecedented," says Christopher Csikszentmihalyi, director of the Center for Future Civic Media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
According Nicolas di Tada, the difficult part of work for 4636 Haitian operation is______.
选项
答案
making responders on the ground aware of them
解析
题干中的…work…is可知,本空应填一(动)名词或短语。根据题干中的Nicolas di Tada定位到倒数第二段前两句。第一句指出把办事处建立起来是工作中的easy part,可以猜测到后面引言中可能提到工作的困难部分,题干中the difficult part ofwork是对文中The challenge的同义转述,由此可知making responders on theground aware of us为答案出处。需要注意的是,题干是间接引语,故应将直接引语中第一人称的us改为第三人称的them。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/GL97777K
0
大学英语六级
相关试题推荐
AtthebottomoftheworldliesamightycontinentstillwrappedintheIceAgeand,untilrecenttimes,unknowntoman.Itisa
HowBirdsFindWayHome?Theabilityofbirdstoreturntoafamiliarplacefromanydistanceisaremarkablefeatofnature
It’sasimplecalculus,kidsandmoney:Frombirthuntilcollegegraduation,childrenconsumedollarslikethey’rechickennugge
It’sasimplecalculus,kidsandmoney:Frombirthuntilcollegegraduation,childrenconsumedollarslikethey’rechickennugge
A、Bossandsecretary.B、Landlordandtenant.C、Professorandstudent.D、Bankclerkandcustomer.C根据对话中的关键词grade,coursework,atte
Opponentsofbilingualeducationtellusthatthepublicisagainstbilingualeducation.Thisimpressionisaresultoftheway
Sugarlessyoghurt(酸奶)couldhelpbeatbadbreath,toothdecayandgumdisease,sayscientists.Japaneseresearchersfoundeatin
IthasbecomeaclicheamongdoctorswhodealwithAIDSthattheonlywaytostoptheepidemicistodevelopavaccineagainstH
A、TheysendthemessagetothePresidentwithintendays.B、Theyofficiallystatereasonsforrejectingthemessage.C、Theymeet
A、Cameronshouldn’thavewastedmoneyontheCDs.B、CameronshouldhaveboughtthesamemovieCDsasthewoman.C、Thewomanhas
随机试题
质量管理“三部曲”的提出者是()
下列广义积分中收敛的是()
A.白喉杆菌B.结核分枝杆菌C.霍乱弧菌D.肺炎链球菌E.炭疽芽胞杆菌革兰染色阴性,弧形或逗点状的细菌是
患儿,男,7岁。在河边玩耍时不慎溺水窒息。患儿被救上岸后,首要的急救步骤是
声音的三要素是指什么?(2008,7)(2009。1)
索求赔偿的证明依据有( )。①业主或设备监理工程师代表指令、通知、确认函;②业主或设备监理工程师代表签证的票据;③现场设备工程施工、安装记录;④材料、设备验收检验报告;⑤设备工程中间竣工、试车验收报告;⑥设
给定资料1.互联网技术的飞速发展,尤其是移动互联网技术的不断成熟,催生了一大批勇于表达自我、热衷传递信息的自媒体。微博、微信、手机程序的迅速崛起,促使信息生产、整合、传播方式发生了革命性变化,开启了信息传播的新模式。人人都有麦克风、摄像机,让信息传播渠道
千兆以太网的核心连接设备是_________。
Supermarketshoppershaveneverbeenmorespoiltforchoice.Butjustwhenwethoughttraditionalsystemsofselectivefarmingh
Readthetextsfromamagazinearticleinwhichfivebusinessleaderstalkedabouttheirpredictionsforhigh-techdevelopments
最新回复
(
0
)