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There’s a great story about an old Finnish woman who, without quite realizing it, was using her cell-phone to access the Interne
There’s a great story about an old Finnish woman who, without quite realizing it, was using her cell-phone to access the Interne
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2015-09-30
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There’s a great story about an old Finnish woman who, without quite realizing it, was using her cell-phone to access the Internet and track her city’s public transit system. When asked why she used the wireless Internet so frequently, she replied, "What are you talking about? I don’t know anything about this wireless Internet stuff, I just know the bus is here. "
Regardless of whether you want to admit it, a lot of us are like that old Finnish woman. When it comes to new mobile applications, many of us do not realize the capability and power that we hold, literally, in our hands.
What we’re looking at today is the mobile Internet in its infancy. Now that using the Internet from home or work has saturated much of society, the next logical step is to be able to use the Net when you’re away from your desktop or laptop. Speech recognition is one way to do this, and there are a number of services, collectively called the "voice Web", that will make this possible. All you do is use a phone or wireless device to call a phone number, and speak commands to an intuitive system. It will then give you the information you’re seeking, using either a synthesized voice or an audio file.
In the United States and Europe, the hot technology for wireless devices is called WAP (Wireless Application Protocol), which is being considered as the world standard. WAP is supported by major phone companies including Nokia, Motorola and Ericsson, and is simply a means of transmitting information, much like HTML is a means of communicating on the Internet.
Currently, wireless Internet connections may give you news, sports scores, stock quotes, and the weather if you’re lucky. But if you’ve ever used this technology, you know it’s slow, costly and doesn’t seem worth the time and effort, if it works at all. "The mobile Internet was never designed to take over surfing the Web from a computer," explains Cherie Gary, spokeswoman at Nokia.
All of this technology points to easier living. Perhaps you’ll need to find a restaurant for an occasional business meeting. You’ll press a button on your mobile phone, and access the Internet to pull up a list of great restaurants in your immediate area. You’ll hit another button, say a few words into the handset and you’ve got a reservation for four.
The word "saturate" (Line 2, Para. 3) most probably means______.
选项
A、state
B、utilize
C、despise
D、fill
答案
D
解析
词汇题。由于saturate出现的句子中并没有结构连词如and,or,也没有这个词的近义词或反义词,所以只有靠上下文的意思来推测词义。从句的意思是:“那么下一个合理的举措就是在离开台式电脑或笔记本电脑时还可以访问因特网”,主句中的“now that:”是“既然”的意思,综合从句和各个选项,可以得出saturate只有是“充满”的意思,上下文才可以讲通,意思为:“既然因特网的使用已经渗透到(充满)社会的各个方面,不管用户是在家或在公司里,那么下一个合理的举措就是在离开台式电脑或笔记本电脑时还可以访问因特网。”
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