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
On a more mundane (世俗的) level, third-generation mobile telephones, despite all the delays and the billions squandered on 3G lice
On a more mundane (世俗的) level, third-generation mobile telephones, despite all the delays and the billions squandered on 3G lice
admin
2020-01-09
63
问题
On a more mundane (世俗的) level, third-generation mobile telephones, despite all the delays and the billions squandered on 3G licenses by telecom firms, are still expected to offer consumer highspeed, always-on mobile internet access, complete with video, in the next few years. Rapidly proliferating "wi-fi" (无线局域网) networks already offer wireless access on a local basis. Tiny tracking chips called radio-frequency identification devices are being used as passports. Soon they will be small, powerful and cheap enough to be implanted into everything. Sensors of every kind, including video cameras, should also become much smaller and cheaper. Forrester Research, a technology consultancy, predicts that 14 billion such devices will be connected to the internet by 2005.
How rapidly such new technology is introduced will depend on a number of factors—the state of the economy, the supply of investment capital and the appetite of consumers for new products or services! Fortunes will be made and lost many times over. But whatever happens, the power of computing and communications looks set to continue to grow, and its price to fall, at a steady rate for the next few decades. That will make it possible, at least in rich countries, to record most human interactions, wherever and whenever they take place, and to store and analyze this ocean of data at low cost.
For the sake of argument, this survey will assume that we are heading towards a networked society of ubiquitous (到处存在的), mobile communication capable of constant monitoring. Whether this arrives in 20, 30 or 40 years does not really matter. The point is that the destination seems not merely possible, but probable, so it is not too soon to ask: What do we want this technology to do?
The internet has already thrown up a host of legal and political problems, but these are only a small foretaste of the dilemmas—about privacy, security, intellectual property and the nature of government itself—that will have to be faced over the coming decades. The debate has already begun. This survey will outline some of main issues, and speculate on the way they are likely to go.
By saying "its price to fall" (line 4, Para. 2), the author means that_____.
选项
A、the cost of computing and communications will fall
B、the cost of new technology will fall
C、the cost of new products will fall
D、the cost of recoding human interactions will fall
答案
B
解析
第2段第3句开头的But一词表明该句与前两句形成转折关系,围绕的主题都是new technology,本句主要说明新技术发展的结果,而且,题干中的its指代的应该是单数名词,由此可见,最合理的选项为B。A最具干扰性,因为其中的computing and communications与its price距离最近,而且位于同一个句子里面,但是computing and communications是两个事物,its只能代指单数名词,由此可排除。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/xTp7777K
0
大学英语四级
相关试题推荐
A、Returnitasquicklyaspossible.B、Payafinebecauseofthedelayedreturn.C、Returnitwithin7daysoftherecallnotice.
WorriedaboutInternetcompaniesspyingonyouronlinebrowsing?Youmightturntosomethingcalledavirtualprivatenetworkto
WorriedaboutInternetcompaniesspyingonyouronlinebrowsing?Youmightturntosomethingcalledavirtualprivatenetworkto
Askaleft-wingBritonwhattheybelieveaboutthesafetyofnuclearpower,andyoucanguesstheiranswer.Askaright-wingAme
InasurveyconductedbyresearchfirmHarrisInteractive,71%ofAmericanssaidthatspendingextramoneyontravelduringthe
A、Anewlyopencasinonearby.B、AmobilephonewithInternetaccess.C、Aregisteredaccountonspecialsites.D、Knowledgeofmob
Onamoremundane(世俗的)level,third-generationmobiletelephones,despiteallthedelaysandthebillionssquanderedon3Glice
Onamoremundane(世俗的)level,third-generationmobiletelephones,despiteallthedelaysandthebillionssquanderedon3Glice
Somepessimisticexpertsfeelthattheautomobileisboundtofallintodisuse.Theyseeadayinthenot-too-distantfuturewhe
随机试题
古人特别提出忌汗、忌补的疾病是
行政责任的构成,必须同时具备以下条款中哪几方面的条件( )。①违反卫生法中行政管理方面法律规定的义务。这是承担行政责任的前提。②行为人(包括企业事业单位)必须有过错,即主观上的故意或过失,否则不应追究行政责任。③违法失职行为已经超过了批评教育的限度
患者,男,50岁。来院咨询减肥方法。查体:身高170cm,体重82kg。膝关节有陈旧疾患,无法负重。护士建议其最好的运动方式是
业主对承包人与分包人之间的法律与经济纠纷不承担任何责任和义务。()
监理规划中质量控制的组织措施包括()。
土家族的先民与古代的()有直接的渊源关系。
下列属于成年期面临的主要问题是()。
周日下午,连里的通讯员到炊事班来,正巧碰见新来的小刘、小陈、小李,顺便问起了他们的年龄。小刘说:“我22岁,比小陈小2岁,比小李大1岁。”小陈说:“我不是年龄最小的,小李和我差3岁。小李是25岁。”小李说:“我比小刘年纪小,小刘23岁,小陈比小刘大3岁。”
设有下列宏定义:#defineA2#defineBA+3则执行赋值语句:t=b*2;t为血型变量后的值是______。
Morethan15millionAmericansundergosurgeryeachyear,butsomeelectiveoperationsmaybemoreaboutthesurgeon’spreferen
最新回复
(
0
)