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
考研
The communications explosion is on the scale of the rail, automobile or telephone revolution. Very soon you’ll be able to record
The communications explosion is on the scale of the rail, automobile or telephone revolution. Very soon you’ll be able to record
admin
2010-11-27
110
问题
The communications explosion is on the scale of the rail, automobile or telephone revolution. Very soon you’ll be able to record your entire life (1)_____—anything a microphone or a camera can sense you’ Il be able to (2)_____. In particular, the number of images a person captures in a lifetime is set to rise exponentially. The thousand (3)_____ a year I take of my children on a digital camera are all precious to me. (4)_____ a generation’s time, my children’s children will have total image documentation of their entire lives—a (5)_____ log of tremendous personal value.
By then we’ll be wrestling with another question: how we control all the electronic (6)_____ connected to the internet: trillions of PCs, laptops, cell phones and other gadgets. In Cambridge, we’re already working (7)_____ millimetre-square computing and sensing devices that can be linked to the internet through the radio network. This sort of (8)_____ will expand dramatically (9)_____ microscopic communications devices become dirt-cheap and multiply. Just imagine (10)_____ the paint on the wall could do if it had this sort of communications dust in it: change colour, play music, show movies or even speak to you.
(11)_____ costs raise other possibilities too. (12)_____ launching space vehicles is about to become very much cheaper, the number of satellites is likely to go up exponentially. There’s lots of (13)_____ up there so we could have millions of them. And if you have millions of loworbit satellites, you can establish a (14)_____ communications network that completely does away with towers and masts. If the satellites worked on the cellular principle so you got spatial reuse of frequencies, system (15)_____ would be amazing. Speech is so (16)_____ that I expect voice communication to become almost free eventually: you’ 11 pay just a monthly fixed (17)_____ and be able to make as many calls as you want. By then people will also have fixed links with business (18)_____, friends and relatives. One day I (19)_____ being able to keep in touch with my family in Poland on a fibreoptic audio-video (20)_____; we’ll be able to have a little ceremony at supper-time, open the curtains and sit down "together" to eat.
选项
A、intricate
B、available
C、flexible
D、fluctuant
答案
C
解析
intricate意为"复杂的";available意为"可以得到的";flexible意为"灵活的,有弹性的";fluctuant意为"上下波动的,不稳定的"。此处指通话灵活方便,flexible符合题意;intricate和fluctuant在意义上都是负面的,不符合上下文;available不能和speech构成主谓关系。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/SjZ4777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
Thephrase"whistleblower"(Lastline,Paragraph3)probablymeans______.Itcanbeinferredfromthelastparagraphthat___
AmericanandJapaneseresearchersaredevelopingasmartcarthatwillhelpdriversavoidaccidentsbypredictingwhentheyare
Youhaveacloseforeignfriend.HeaskedyoutosubscribetoacopyofChinaDailyforhimbecausehewillleaveawayfromChin
Atthebeginningofthetext,theauthorstresses______.Thetextismostprobablyadigestconcerning______.
ManyforeignerswhohavenotvisitedBritaincallalltheinhabitantsEnglish,fortheyareusedtothinkingoftheBritishIsle
WelearnfromthebeginningofthetextthatwhatstrikesBush’sfatheristhat______.Whatisrealists’attitudetowardsthe
Sometimeswehavespecificproblemswithourmother;sometimes,lifewithhercanjustbehardwork.Iftherearedifficultiesi
Whetherworkshouldbeplacedamongthecausesofhappinessoramongthecausesofunhappinessmayperhapsberegardedasadoub
UnderitsCharter,thefirststatedaimoftheU.N.wasWhatdidPresidentRoosevelthavetodowiththeUnitedNations?
"ThenewshittheBritishHighCommissioninNairobiatnine-thirtyonaMondaymorning.SandyWoodrowtookitlikeabullet,ja
随机试题
下列哪种形态癌的可能性最大
一次性使用血袋如未装保存液,则应按袋内表面积加入无菌无热原的生理盐水,在一定温度下保存,振摇,作为试供液。其保存温度及保存时间分别为
根据《建设工程工程量清单计价规范》的有关规定,下列关于池槽保温隔热工程量的计算,正确的是()。
影响企业选择厂址的因素主要有()。
资料一:A公司有关资料如下:该公司2014年经营性现金流入380万元、经营性现金流出300万元。资料二:B公司2014年计划生产单位售价为15元的A产品。该公司目前有两个生产方案可供选择:方案一:单位变动成本为7元,固定成本为60万元;
下列属于人力资源内部供给预测的方法有()。
结合材料回答问题:材料1今年(2015年)以来,欧洲面临第二次世界大战以来最为严重的难民潮。截至8月底,今年累计涌入难民人数超过50万人。地中海地处欧洲、非洲和亚洲大陆之间,经由地中海前往意大利、希腊和西班牙等国成为难民入欧的重要通道。
设f(x)=,则f(n)(x)=______.
BetterControlofTBSeenIfaFasterCureIsFoundTheWorldHealthOrganizationestimatesthataboutone-thirdofallpeop
A、Repairtheotherdoor.B、Visitsomeruins.C、Haveanoutdoorparty.D、CatchtheSaturdaytrain.C[听力原文]M:Theweatherforecas
最新回复
(
0
)