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
When Melissa Mahan and her husband visited the Netherlands, they felt imprisoned by their tour bus. It forced them to see the ci
When Melissa Mahan and her husband visited the Netherlands, they felt imprisoned by their tour bus. It forced them to see the ci
admin
2013-09-28
37
问题
When Melissa Mahan and her husband visited the Netherlands, they felt imprisoned by their tour bus. It forced them to see the city according to a particular route and specific schedule—but going off on their own meant missing out on the information provided by the guide. On their return home to San Diego, California, they started a new company called Tour Coupes. Now, when tourists in San Diego rent one of their small, brightly coloured three-wheeled vehicles, they are treated to a narration over the stereo system about the places they pass, triggered by Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite technology.
This is just one example of how GPS is being used to provide new services to tourists. "What we really have here is a technology that allows people to forget about the technology," says Jim Carrier of IntelliTours, a GPS tourism firm which began offering a similar service over a year ago in Montgomery, Alabama. The city is packed with sites associated with two important chapters in American history, the civil war of the 1860s and the civil-rights movement a century later. Montgomery has a 120-year-old trolley system, called the Lightning Route, which circulates around the downtown area and is mainly used by tourists. On the Lightning Route trolleys, GPS-triggered audio clips point out historical hotspots.
Another GPS-tourism firm is GoCar Rentals, based in San Francisco. It provides open-air vehicles, using a scooter engine with a fibreglass frame, similar to those used by Tour Coupes. Customers must follow a prescribed route to hear the GPS-triggered information. This limits the scope for exploration, but Nathan Withrington, the firm’s founder, says that people tend to visit the same few sites.
Other firms, such as CityShow in New York and GPS Tours Canada in Banff, Canada, offer hand-held GPS receivers that play audio clips for listening to while walking or driving. In South Africa, Europcar, a car-rental firm, offers a device called the Xplorer. As well as providing commentary on 2,000 points of interest, it can also warn drivers if they exceed the local speed limit.
If such services prove popular, the use of dedicated audio-guide devices could give way to a different approach. A growing number of mobile phones have built-in GPS or can determine their locations using other technologies. Information for tourists delivered via phones could be updated in real time and could contain advertisements. "Location-based services" , such as the ability to call up a list of nearby banks or pizzerias, have been talked about for years but have never taken off. But aiming such services at tourists makes sense—since people are more likely to want information when in an unfamiliar place. It could give mobile roaming a whole new meaning.
All of the following GPS services have been provided EXCEPT
选项
A、travel information.
B、GPS positioning.
C、advertisements.
D、offering lists of hotels.
答案
D
解析
末段第四句指出还没有实现的GPS服务“‘Location-based services’,such as the ability tocall up a list of nearby banks or pizzerias”,既然不能够告诉你附近的银行或比萨店分布情况,自然也无法得知酒店的分布情况,故D为答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/PNLK777K
0
专业英语四级
相关试题推荐
Whatismainlytalkedaboutintilepassage?
Whatismainlytalkedaboutintilepassage?
Thefactthatblindpeoplecan"see"thingsusingotherpartsoftheirbodies【C1】______theireyesmayhelpustounderstandou
Cancomputersreason?Reasoningrequirestheindividualtotakeagivensetoffactsanddrawcorrectconclusions.Unfortunately
WhydidTomgotoliveinthecountry?
TheCrusadingCampusLeader:RuthSimmonsTherewasatimewhenbig-leagueuniversitypresidentsreallymattered.TheNewYo
1 Massivechangesinalloftheworld’sdeeplycherishedsportinghabitsareunderway.Whetherit’soneofLondon’sparksfullo
______withenoughinstrumentsnecessaryfortheexperiment,thesescientistsareexpectingtofinishitaheadoftime.
AftertheviolentearthquakethatshookLosAngelesin1994,earthquakescientistshadgoodnewstoreport.Thedamageanddeath
LastyearmorethanamillionandahalfforeigntouristsvisitedtheUnitedStates.Inordertounderstandinterculturalproble
随机试题
可行性研究
在不同的组织结构中,管理者在时间、竞争和成本方面的压力不同,压力越大,越有可能降低伦理标准。()
急性起病,病程不足1年,以蛋白尿、血尿及高血压为特点的综合征是
让没有管理能力和处理问题经验的项目团队成员参加暴露和解决矛盾规则的制定过程,这在项目团队能力开发的途径与手段中属于()。
一盒零售食品,内有少量薯条和番茄酱,以及一个牛肉汉堡(上下两层面包片,中间是牛肉,牛肉重量占60%)
封闭式基金的合同生效的条件之一是封闭式基金募集期限届满,基金份额持有人人数达到()人以上。
如今在地铁或公共汽车上,人们手持智能手机或者电子阅读器等终端设备_______看小说的情景已_______。填入划横线部分最恰当的一项是:
垄断与竞争的关系是
设有某商场的数据库应用系统,在其生命周期中有下列活动:Ⅰ.在系统上线之前模拟客户的消费行为,生成销售数据,测试系统是否能正确完成销售业务Ⅱ.为应对商场业务迅速增长带来的数据快速增长而扩展硬盘空间Ⅲ.监控数据表的使用情况,根据表访
Theincreaseininternationaltradehasresultedinademandforemployeeswiththeabilitytocommunicateinaforeignlanguage
最新回复
(
0
)