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
As Nicholas Negroponte has done for the past three years, the founder and chairman of the non-profit One Laptop Per Child founda
As Nicholas Negroponte has done for the past three years, the founder and chairman of the non-profit One Laptop Per Child founda
admin
2023-02-22
42
问题
As Nicholas Negroponte has done for the past three years, the founder and chairman of the non-profit One Laptop Per Child foundation has touched down in one world capital after another to pitch his innovative and audacious project to government leaders, curious teenies, education advocates, NGOs and anyone else who will listen. But even as he was crisscrossing Rome in a hectic 14 hours earlier this week, Negroponte’s attention was fixed on a factory near Shanghai.【B6】______________The Big Idea of Professor Negroponte—co-founder in 1985 of MIT’s influential Media Lab—is the development and distribution of a high-quality, low-cost laptop to potentially hundreds of millions of children throughout the developing world.
The first task was to design a machine that would allow kids to connect wirelessly to the Internet without an outside source of electricity, and that would be rugged enough to function in often harsh conditions. Prototypes of the laptop (dubbed XO)—with built-in video and audio, a hand-crank and low wattage requirements—are getting high marks from technology reviewers.【B7】______________Negroponte confesses to "bluffing" on the original numbers to create momentum for the project. "You need scale to change people’s minds," he said. "We must create an avalanche."
【B8】________________
Such was the case Monday in Rome, where he was utilizing the most important new tool in one of his three speeches: the lime green laptop with a toy-like design that Negroponte carries with him everywhere. Throughout the day, he spoke to three packed auditoriums, and met with officials at the U.N.’s Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization and Telecom Italia. In between, he taped an interview at Vatican Radio, lunched with two top advisers to former Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, reviewed strategy with his own staff and fielded a proposal to distribute the computers in Florence and some of its 20 sister cities around the world.
Still, the skeptics remain, noting for example that the price tag of what was once billed as a $100
laptop is now closer to $200.【B9】______________The governments in China and India have also been resistant, convinced that they can do something similar on their own.
【B10】___________________
For example, he launched in mid-November in the United States a "Give One, Get One" program that will ask people to pay $400 for two XO’s, one of which they will receive and the other to be sent to a poor child.
Taiwan-based laptop manufacturer Quanta will begin by turning out 44,000 units a week at a recently expanded factory in Changshu, northwest of Shanghai. Negroponte said some 300,000 orders have been booked so far. That avalanche, the critics will say, better start rolling soon. But Negroponte doesn’t seem to mind the doubters. He said: "When you tell me something’s impossible, that’s going to make me want to try."
[A] Though Negroponte and his project are not quite there yet, the 63-year-old professor is as busy as ever piling up the snow.
[B] But perhaps an even more difficult task was to generate enough mass interest in the project to allow the computer to be produced on such a vast scale that costs could be kept down.
[C] That’s where within a week—after all the development and design and gigabytes of both hype and skepticism—mass production will begin on the state-of-the-art, low-price computer.
[D] Negroponte has committed Italy to donating 50,000 of the laptops to Ethiopia, while the Vatican potential is particularly enticing, with some 50 million schoolchildren in Catholic schools around the world.
[E] Rome wasn’t built in a day, but that’s all the time that Nicholas Negroponte has for the Eternal City right now.
[F] Negroponte’s response has been to open up the program to individuals and companies.
[G] Moreover, the original strategy of getting six of the largest developing countries—Argentina, Brazil, Pakistan, Thailand, Nigeria and Libya—to commit to buying one million units stalled in August.
【B10】
选项
答案
F
解析
前文提到了人们对尼古拉斯.内格罗蓬特电脑计划的怀疑和各国对此采取的抵制措施,本段则提到尼古拉斯.内格罗蓬特发起了“买一送一”的宣传活动,因此不难推测空格处应是尼古拉斯.内格罗蓬特对前面发生的问题的应对措施。F提到尼古拉斯.内格罗蓬特对此作出的反应(response)是向个人和公司推广此项目,这是针对上文所作出的回应。故F为答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/oZMD777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
Scientistssentpatternsofelectricitycoursingacrosspeople’sbrains,coaxingtheirbrainstoseelettersthatweren’tthere.
Inourcontemporaryculture,theprospectofcommunicatingwith—orevenlookingat—astrangerisvirtuallyunbearable.Everyone
Inourcontemporaryculture,theprospectofcommunicatingwith—orevenlookingat—astrangerisvirtuallyunbearable.Everyone
Inourcontemporaryculture,theprospectofcommunicatingwith—orevenlookingat—astrangerisvirtuallyunbearable.Everyone
TheInternetaffordsanonymitytoitsusers,ablessingtoprivacyandfreedomofspeech.Butthatveryanonymityisalsobehind
TheInternetaffordsanonymitytoitsusers,ablessingtoprivacyandfreedomofspeech.Butthatveryanonymityisalsobehind
Inrecentweeks,BenSilbermann,aco-founderofthedigitalpinboardservicePinterest,resignedaschiefexecutive;JoeGebbia
Abouthalfofallmedicalpatientsgetadrug,inanygivenyear,thatcouldinteractwiththeirgenesandcauseserioussideef
AsNicholasNegropontehasdoneforthepastthreeyears,thefounderandchairmanofthenon-profitOneLaptopPerChildfounda
[A]Accordingtoatwo-yearstudy,wearablefitnesstrackersdesignedtocoaxusersintobustingmovesandburningcaloriesth
随机试题
下列属于要约的是()。
社会主义和谐社会的科学内涵是()、公平正义、诚信友爱、充满活力、安定有序、人与自然和谐相处的社会。
药品命名的原则()
目前公认的确认动物致癌物的方法是
A.物质氢键吸附强弱的差别B.物质分子大小的差异C.物质在两相溶剂中分配比的差别D.物质的解离程度的差别E.物质折光率大小的差别离子交换色谱法分离物质的根据
工作C的两项紧前工作为工作A和B,Dc=3天,工作A和C的时距为STFA、C=5天,ESA=4天,工作B和C的时距为FTSB、C=3天,EFB=10天,则EFC为( )天。
某市税务机关在2014年初税务检查中发现,腾翼公司2009年应缴纳的一笔160万元税款一直拖欠未缴,经限期缴纳后仍不缴纳。经查腾翼公司仅剩一处价值160万元的房产,但该房产已于2014年1月10日向某银行设定抵押,贷款160万元。对于该房产,下列表述中正确
安思沃斯根据敏感一不敏感、接受一拒绝、合作一干涉和易接受一冷漠四个维度来评定母亲的照看方式,结果发现安全型依恋的儿童,其母亲的照看方式在四个维度上的分数都高,其中,母亲的()是影响儿童依恋形成的关键因素。
如何理解我国宪法的最高法律地位?
"Iwouldn’tbeheretodayifnotforthegenerosityofstrangers,"saidMichaelMoritz,whileannouncingamajordonationtoOxf
最新回复
(
0
)