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
74
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.
Who tackled text messages on earthquake-hit Haiti that poured into 4636?
选项
答案
Hundreds of volunteers.
解析
问题考查动作的施与者,故应填表示人或组织的名词(短语)。根据题干中的text messages和earthquake定位到首段。题干中tackled是对第二句中translated,tagged和passed一系列动词的概括,故该句的主语也就是问题中谓语动作的施与者,故Hundreds of volunteers为答案。题干是问句,故不要忘记答案后面英文状态下的句号。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/odo7777K
0
大学英语六级
相关试题推荐
Johnwishes______________________(他当时没有失去出国的机会).
A、Exposingoneselftothetargetculture.B、Attendingregularlyagoodlanguageprogram.C、Comingupwithastudyplan.D、Develo
Languagelearningbeginswithlistening.Individualchildrenvarygreatlyinthemountoflisteningtheydoafter【S1】
A、Itisn’treliable.B、Itneedschecking.C、Itisdefinitelytrustworthy.D、Itwon’thurttotry.D本题考查女士对网上征婚的态度,其实通过女士向男士的介绍,最
HowSledDogsWorkThey’rephysicalwonders-abletoendureextremeconditionsforextensiveperiodsoftimewhilerunningf
A、Popmusic.B、Chambermusic.C、Rockmusic.D、Folkmusic.B文中提到baseballischambermusic,aspaciouscombinationofnotes,chore
A、Physicalexaminationsaregivenfreethere.B、Shecangetaninfluenzavaccinationthere.C、She’llbeabletogetaprescripti
Nooneknowsexactlyhowmanydisabledpeoplethereareintheworld,butestimatessuggestthefigureisover450million.The
Igreatlyappreciate________________(两年前给我的出国留学的机会).
随机试题
提取挥发油最常用的超临界流体是
男性。60岁。近日出现上腹不适,疼痛,进食后加重,消瘦、贫血。应高度警惕的是
“生气之源”的脏指的是()。
下列贷款中,不属于房地产开发贷款的是()。
关于事业单位无形资产的处置,下列会计处理中,错误的是()。
关于广播广告中的间隙的描述正确的是()。
Themeasureofaman’srealcharacteriswhathewoulddoifheknewhewouldneverbefoundout.—ThomasMacaulaySomethir
公文中应使用法定计量单位,还要保持计量单位的()性。
【宋学】中国人民大学2005年中国通史真题;陕西师范大学2016年中国史真题
阅读下列说明和图,回答以下问题,将解答填入答题纸的对应栏内。【说明】某电子商务系统采用以数据库为中心的集成方式改进购物车的功能,详细需求如下:1.加入购物车。顾客浏览商品,点击加入购物车,根据商品标识从商品表中读取商品信息,并
最新回复
(
0
)