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The telecity is a city whose life, direction, and functioning are largely shaped by telecommunications. In the twenty first cent
The telecity is a city whose life, direction, and functioning are largely shaped by telecommunications. In the twenty first cent
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2010-02-22
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The telecity is a city whose life, direction, and functioning are largely shaped by telecommunications. In the twenty first century, cities will be based more and more on an economy that is dependent on services and intellectual property. Telecommunications and information networks will define a city’s architecture, shape, and character. Proximity in the telecity will be defined by the speed and bandwidth of networks as much as by geographical propinquity. In the age of the telecity, New York and Singapore may be closer than, say, New York and Arkadelphia, Arkansas.
Telecities will supersede megacities for several reasons, including the drive toward clean air, reducing pollution, energy conservation, more jobs based on services, and coping with the high cost of urban property. Now we must add the need to cope with terrorist threats in a high-technology world.
Western mind-sets were clearly jolted in the wake of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City and attacks in Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, and else where. But the risks posed by twentieth-century patterns of urbanization and architecture have ye to register fully with political figures and leaders of industry. The Pentagon, for example, has been rebuilt in situation rather than distributed to multiple locations and connected by secure landlines and broadband wireless systems. Likewise, the reconstruction of the World Trade Center complex still represents a massive concentration of humanity and infrastructure. This is a remarkably shortsighted and dangerous vision of the future.
The security risks, economic expenses, and environmental hazards of over-centralization are everywhere, and they do not stop with skyscrapers and large governmental structures. There are risks also at seaports and airports, in food and water supplies, at nuclear power plants and hydroelectric turbines at major dams, in transportation systems, and in information and communications systems.
This vulnerability applies not only to terrorist threats but also to human error, such as system-wide blackouts in North America in August 2003 and in Italy in September 2003, and natural disasters such as typhoons, hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes. Leaders and planners are only slowly becoming aware that overcentralized facilities are the most vulnerable to attack or catastrophic destruction.
There is also growing awareness that new broadband electronic systems now allow governments and corporations to safeguard their key assets and people in new and innovative ways. So far, corporations have been quickest to adjust to these new realities, and some governments have begun to adjust as well.
选项
A、The telecity is a TV manufacturing city.
B、The telecity is a city of the speed and bandwidth of networks.
C、Singapore is closer to New York than Arkadelphia, Arkansas is in telecity age.
D、Singapore is actually closer to New York than Arkadelphia, Arkansas.
答案
C
解析
细节题。文章第一段最后一句提到"在电脑电信技术城市的时代,纽约距新加坡会比纽约距阿肯色州的Arkaadelphia更近",由此可知答案选项符合文意。文章第一句提到"电脑电信技术城市是一个其生活、方向和功能人都通过电信塑造的城市",所以"电脑电信技术城市是一个制造电视的城市"不正确;第一段第四句提到"电脑电信技术城市中的接近将通过网络的速度和带宽以及地理位置的接近来确定",所以"电脑电信技术城市是一个有网络的速度和带宽的城市"是对原文意思的曲解;"新加坡实际上比阿肯色州的Arkadelphia距纽约更近"缺少了一个先决条件。因此这三项都不正确。
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