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The idea is as audacious as it altruistic: provide a personal laptop computer to every schoolchild—particularly in the poorest p
The idea is as audacious as it altruistic: provide a personal laptop computer to every schoolchild—particularly in the poorest p
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2016-12-28
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The idea is as audacious as it altruistic: provide a personal laptop computer to every schoolchild—particularly in the poorest parts of the world. The first step to making that happen is whittling the price down to $100. And that is the goal of a group of American techno-gurus led by Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of the fabled MIT Media Lab. When he unveiled the idea at the World Economic Forum in January it seemed wildly ambitious. But surprisingly, it is starting to become a reality. Mr. Negroponte plans to display the first prototype in November at a UN summit. Four countries—Brazil, Egypt, Thailand and South Africa—have said they will buy over lm units each. Production is due to start in late 2006.
How is the group, called One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) , able to create a laptop so inexpensively? It is mainly a matter of cleverly combining existing technologies in new ways. The laptop will have a basic processor made by AMD, flash memory instead of a hard disk, will be powered by batteries or a hand-crank, and will run open-source software. The $100 laptop also puts all the components behind the screen, not under the keyboard, so there is no need for an expensive hinge. So far, OLPC has got the price down to around $130.
But good news for the world’s poor, may not be such great news for the world’s computer manufacturers. The new machine is not simply of interest in the developing world. On September 22nd, Mitt Romney, the governor of Massachusetts, said the state should purchase one for every secondary-school student, when they become available.
Sales to schools are just one way in which the $100 laptop could change the computer industry more broadly. By depressing prices and fuelling the trend for "good-enough computing", where customers upgrade less often, it could eventually put pressure on the world’s biggest PC-makers.
Mitt Romney is mentioned in the text so as to________.
选项
A、evidence the cause for the disappointment of the international computer makers in the goal of OLPC
B、illustrate good news for the world’s poor
C、appeal the world’s computer manufacturers
D、analyse the psychological reaction to the cheap trick advanced by OLPC
答案
A
解析
本题是一道细节题,测试考生识别理解上下文句子之间关系的能力。本题的答案信息来自第三段的第一句和第三句。第三段第一句的大意是:“对于世界贫困国家来讲的好消息也许对于世界电脑制造商而言就不是什么好消息”。第三段第三句举例说明:“美国马萨诸塞州的州长米特·罗姆尼说,当一百美元的电脑面市后,该州将会为每位中学生购买一台”。可见本题的正确选项是A“evidence the cause for the disappointment of the international computer。makers in the goal of OLPC”(证明世界电脑生产商对OLPC生产廉价电脑这一目标失望的原因)。
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考研英语一
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