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
2012-02-02
22
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.
Ushahidi is not clear of the effect of 4636 since senders usually do not give a feedback when
选项
答案
their request has been fulfilled
解析
由题干中的when可知,本空应填一句子成分完整的从句。根据题干中的Ushahidi和senders定位到末段首句。题干中is not clear of the effect of 4636是对文中has no way of knowing how successful it has been的同义转述。senders usually do not give a feedback是对文中people generally don’t send messages to say的同义转述,故其后的their request has been fulfilled即为答案出处。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/Kpo7777K
0
大学英语六级
相关试题推荐
A、Businessassociates.B、Bossandsecretary.C、Teacherandstudent.D、Goodfriends.A综合推断题。男士说很高兴在一起工作,希望能再次合作,女士对此表示赞同,由此推断,两人是
A、Tomakeadeal.B、Togreeteachother.C、Toshowfriendliness.D、Toreachanagreement.C本题考查行为目的。短文开头提到,很久以前,欧洲人见面后互相示意自己没有武器
A、Itisaprivatecompany.B、Itiscontrolledbythegovernment.C、Itcannotbeusedforgovernmentpropaganda.D、Itcanbeused
Languagelearningbeginswithlistening.Individualchildrenvarygreatlyinthemountoflisteningtheydoafter【S1】
A、Whentheecologicalbalanceoftheriverislost.B、Whenpeopleconsumemorefishthantheyusedto.C、Whenlargenumbersofa
A、Exposingoneselftothetargetculture.B、Attendingregularlyagoodlanguageprogram.C、Comingupwithastudyplan.D、Develo
A、Inthevolcanoes.B、Onthefloorofthesea.C、Undertheriverbed.D、Atthefootofthemountains.A语意理解题。文中指出数百万年前,钻石被强烈的火山喷
A、Awebpageauthoringprogram.B、Akindofdrinks.C、Acomputergamesoftware.D、Aforeignnameforafamousprogrammer.B男士说,曾
Nooneknowsexactlyhowmanydisabledpeoplethereareintheworld,butestimatessuggestthefigureisover450million.The
WereIinyourplace,______(我会毫不犹豫地抓住机会).
随机试题
某公司为增值税一般纳税人,2006年9月该公司发生以下经济业务:(1)外购原材料一批,货款已付并验收入库,从供货方取得的增值税专用发票上注明的增值税税额为30万元,另支付运费10万元,运输单位已开具运输凭证证。(2)外购机器设备一套,从供货方取得的增值税专
同源细胞群
在控制流程中转换与对比两个环节之间的环节是()。
根据《会计法》的规定,连续三年未接受继续教育或连续三年未按有关规定完成继续教育时间的会计人员,由有关部门做出或建议做出取消其会计证、会计专业技术资格等决定。该部门为()。
房屋权属证书遗失的,权利人应当及时登报声明作废,并向登记机关申请补发,由登记机关作出补发公告,经()无异议的,予以补发。
在美术教学设计中要突出美术学科自身特点,必须落实美术课程中所具有的()、视觉性和实践性。
普通小麦中有高秆抗病(TTRR)和矮秆易感病(ttrr)两个品种,控制两对性状的基因分别位于两对同源染色体上。实验小组利用不同的方法进行了如下三组实验: 请分析回答:A、B、c三组方法中,最不容易获得矮秆抗病小麦品种的是______组,原因是__
问题解决是个体在日常生活中思维活动最普遍、最重要的形式。从19世纪末开始,心理学家就不断使用实验方法来研究问题解决。以下属于问题解决研究的实验有()。
劳动教养的适用条件是()。
ThissectionmeasuresyourabilitytounderstandacademicpassagesinEnglish.TheReadingsectionofTOEFLiBTisdividedinto
最新回复
(
0
)