NEW YORK—Microsoft on Monday made another effort to challenge Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android in the exploding smartphone market—launching a wireless operating system,Windows Phone 7.
Consumers will consider it“always delightful and thoroughly mine,”Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said at a launch event. Ballmer said last year that Microsoft had“screwed up”with its Windows Mobile operating system.For example,it failed to keep up with touch-screen innovations that make iPhones and Android phones easy to use.
Microsoft fell from third to fourth place in market share this year,behind BlackBerry,iPhone and Android. Only 10.8% of smartphone owners used Microsoft’s system in August,down from 18% last December.
But Windows Phone 7 is“a total departure from anything they’ve done”.Microsoft says it sought to simplify common activities. For example,you can instantly take a picture with a phone’s camera by pushing a button on the device. You don’t have to first awaken it from its sleep mode and launch the camera application. You also can program the phones to automatically upload photos to Facebook or other social network sites in a couple of seconds. Users can easily work with Microsoft Office contact and calendar information as well as documents created in Microsoft’s Word,Excel and PowerPoint.
The phones will not show videos built on Adobe’s Flash platform,widely used by services including YouTube and Hulu.
AT&T will offer the first Windows Phone 7 smartphone,the Samsung Focus,on Nov.8.Soon after,it will have the LG Quantum and HTC Surround. Each will cost S| 199.99 with a two-year service contract. T-Mobile will have two Windows Phone 7 models out for the holiday shopping season:the HTC HD7 and Dell Venue Pro. It did not say how much they’ll cost.
1.What is the main idea of paragraph 4?
A.Why Microsoft fell behind others. |
B.How to use Windows Phone7. |
C.Advantages of Windows phone7. |
D.Speed of Windows phone7. |
2.What does the underlined phrase“screwed up”in the 2nd paragraph probably mean?
A.To make a bad mistake. | B.To make big progress. |
C.To achieve main goals. | D.To keep up with others. |
3.Which of the following phones will NOT use Windows Phone 7 operating system?
A.Quantum. | B.Surround. | C.Android. | D.Focus. |
4.Why did Microsoft see a drop in market share last year?
A.Because its operating system didn’t catch up with changes. |
B.Because its phones can’t show videos from YouTube. |
C.Because it was inconvenient to take photos using its phones. |
D.Because its system was based only on Microsoft soft wares. |
5.Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?
A.Smartphone Market Welcomes New Giant |
B.Microsoft to Fight Back on Smartphone |
C.Mobile Phones Getting Smarter and Easier |
D.Microsoft Proved a Failure in Smartphone |
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NEW YORK—Microsoft on Monday made another effort to challenge Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android in the exploding smartphone market—launching a wireless operating system,Windows Phone 7.
Consumers will consider it“always delightful and thoroughly mine,”Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said at a launch event. Ballmer said last year that Microsoft had“screwed up”with its Windows Mobile operating system.For example,it failed to keep up with touch-screen innovations that make iPhones and Android phones easy to use.
Microsoft fell from third to fourth place in market share this year,behind BlackBerry,iPhone and Android. Only 10.8% of smartphone owners used Microsoft’s system in August,down from 18% last December.
But Windows Phone 7 is“a total departure from anything they’ve done”.Microsoft says it sought to simplify common activities. For example,you can instantly take a picture with a phone’s camera by pushing a button on the device. You don’t have to first awaken it from its sleep mode and launch the camera application. You also can program the phones to automatically upload photos to Facebook or other social network sites in a couple of seconds. Users can easily work with Microsoft Office contact and calendar information as well as documents created in Microsoft’s Word,Excel and PowerPoint.
The phones will not show videos built on Adobe’s Flash platform,widely used by services including YouTube and Hulu.
AT&T will offer the first Windows Phone 7 smartphone,the Samsung Focus,on Nov.8.Soon after,it will have the LG Quantum and HTC Surround. Each will cost S| 199.99 with a two-year service contract. T-Mobile will have two Windows Phone 7 models out for the holiday shopping season:the HTC HD7 and Dell Venue Pro. It did not say how much they’ll cost.
1.What is the main idea of paragraph 4?
A.Why Microsoft fell behind others. |
B.How to use Windows Phone7. |
C.Advantages of Windows phone7. |
D.Speed of Windows phone7. |
2.What does the underlined phrase“screwed up”in the 2nd paragraph probably mean?
A.To make a bad mistake. | B.To make big progress. |
C.To achieve main goals. | D.To keep up with others. |
3.Which of the following phones will NOT use Windows Phone 7 operating system?
A.Quantum. | B.Surround. | C.Android. | D.Focus. |
4.Why did Microsoft see a drop in market share last year?
A.Because its operating system didn’t catch up with changes. |
B.Because its phones can’t show videos from YouTube. |
C.Because it was inconvenient to take photos using its phones. |
D.Because its system was based only on Microsoft soft wares. |
5.Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?
A.Smartphone Market Welcomes New Giant |
B.Microsoft to Fight Back on Smartphone |
C.Mobile Phones Getting Smarter and Easier |
D.Microsoft Proved a Failure in Smartphone |
高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
听下面一段较长对话,回答以下小题。
1.On which day is there no train to New York City?
A. Saturday. B. Sunday. C. Monday.
2.Which train will the man take?
A. 10:30. B. 12:20. C. 15:10.
3.How much is a hard seat?
A. $15. B. $6. C. $8.
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阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容 (1个单词) 或括号内单词的正确形式。
Just as I began a new job in New York, I had to learn another important job: father. I was a businessman. At the office I had three new 1. _(project), and at home I had a young son who was growing fast and 2. (need ) me. I was puzzled and didn’t know how to deal with the relationship between job and family until one day, during my business trip in Chicago, I came _3. an old family friend Dan, 4. was once a patient of my father. He told me something about my father. _5.__ was my father that helped him go through depression. When Dan knew he got depression, he was very upset and wanted 6.___ ( give ) up, but my father, his doctor, encouraged him to go on 7. (fight) against depression. My father said to him, “You have ___8. __wonderful life and three fine children. Take some time with them. It’s family that we live for---not just ourselves. Think of that 9._you will know life’s worth the fight.” His words touched me, and I 10. _(sudden) realized that family are the most important in the world. I should spend more time staying with them.
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Hundreds of students from around the world gathered in New York City last week for the Microsoft Imagine Cup finals. They came to present their ideas for using technology to solve world problems.
Microsoft education director Suzi Levine says the nine-year-old program began mainly as a competition to create technology.
SUZI LEVINE: "When we realized that students really actually want to have a purpose for what they're creating, we introduced the idea of inspiring them with the UN Millennium Development Goals and suggesting that they use those for their muse(灵感). "This past year we also rolled out something called the Imagine Cup Solve This library(创新杯求解计划知识库), where IGOs, NGOs and nonprofits can submit some of the technical challenges that they would like students to consider for their solutions."
Microsoft says over 350,000 high school and college students registered for this year's competition. Judges chose more than four hundred of them to attend the finals.
SUZI LEVINE: "One from Thailand was called NewKrean, where they created a Windows Phone 7 application that allows you to broadcast your location to your social network of friends so that you can be more easily rescued." They named their application Terra.
Suzi Levine says there were also ideas from Egypt inspired by the revolution that overthrew president Hosni Mubarak in February.
SUZI LEVINE: "One was to use Bluetooth as sort of a Twitter equivalent so that if the government shuts down the Internet, you actually can still have a massive social distribution."
Students competed in nine categories. For example, in software design the top prize of twenty-five thousand dollars went to Team Hermes from Ireland. The students developed a device for cars to collect information on road conditions, driving behavior and traffic incidents.
A team from Taiwan's National Tsing Hua University won first place in the embedded(内嵌的) development category. They developed a network of wireless devices to help plot the safest escape routes during a fire.
Next year's awards ceremony will take place in Australia. Registration for Imagine Cup twenty-twelve opened Friday. Also, Microsoft announced plans for a three million dollar program to help Imagine Cup winners further develop their projects.
1.Which of the following is true ?
A.The program is sponsored by Microsoft.
B.Next year, the awards ceremony will be held in New York City.
C.Any high school or college student can attend the finals.
D.The initial purpose of the program is to solve world problems using technology.
2. What can we infer from the third paragraph?
A.The UN offers great help to the program.
B.Microsoft sets up a library for the students who want to achieve their goals.
C.IGOs, NGOs and nonprofits also provide help for the students.
D.Microsoft takes effective measures to inspire the students.
3.What does the underlined word “overthrew ” in Paragraph 6 mean ?
A. Abandoned B.Supported C.Drove away D.Overturned
4.What can we know from Paragraph 7?
A.They want to replace Bluetooth with Twitter.
B.They want to combine Bluetooth with Twitter.
C.They want to replace Twitter with Bluetooth.
D.Twitter can still be used without the Internet.
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Hundreds of students from around the world gathered in New York City last week for the Microsoft Imagine Cup finals. They came to present their ideas for using technology to solve world problems.
Microsoft education director Suzi Levine says the nine-year-old program began mainly as a competition to create technology.
SUZI LEVINE: "When we realized that students really actually want to have a purpose for what they're creating, we introduced the idea of inspiring them with the UN Millennium Development Goals and suggesting that they use those for their muse(灵感). "This past year we also rolled out something called the Imagine Cup Solve This library(创新杯求解计划知识库), where IGOs, NGOs and nonprofits can submit some of the technical challenges that they would like students to consider for their solutions."
Microsoft says over 350,000 high school and college students registered for this year's competition. Judges chose more than four hundred of them to attend the finals.
SUZI LEVINE: "One from Thailand was called NewKrean, where they created a Windows Phone 7 application that allows you to broadcast your location to your social network of friends so that you can be more easily rescued." They named their application Terra.
Suzi Levine says there were also ideas from Egypt inspired by the revolution that overthrew president Hosni Mubarak in February.
SUZI LEVINE: "One was to use Bluetooth as sort of a Twitter equivalent so that if the government shuts down the Internet, you actually can still have a massive social distribution."
Students competed in nine categories. For example, in software design the top prize of twenty-five thousand dollars went to Team Hermes from Ireland. The students developed a device for cars to collect information on road conditions, driving behavior and traffic incidents.
A team from Taiwan's National Tsing Hua University won first place in the embedded(内嵌的) development category. They developed a network of wireless devices to help plot the safest escape routes during a fire.
Next year's awards ceremony will take place in Australia. Registration for Imagine Cup twenty-twelve opened Friday. Also, Microsoft announced plans for a three million dollar program to help Imagine Cup winners further develop their projects.
1.Which of the following is true ?
A. The program is sponsored by Microsoft.
B .Next year, the awards ceremony will be held in New York City.
C. Any high school or college student can attend the finals.
D. The initial purpose of the program is to solve world problems using technology.
2.What can we infer from the third paragraph?
A. The UN offers great help to the program.
B. Microsoft sets up a library for the students who want to achieve their goals.
C. IGOs, NGOs and nonprofits also provide help for the students.
D. Microsoft takes effective measures to inspire the students.
3.What does the underlined word “overthrew ” in Paragraph 6 mean ?
A. Abandoned B. Supported C. Drove away D. Overturned
4.What can we know from Paragraph 7?
A. They want to replace Bluetooth with Twitter.
B. They want to combine Bluetooth with Twitter.
C. They want to replace Twitter with Bluetooth.
D. Twitter can still be used without the Internet.
高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
New York----Michelle Obama made a daring decision to return to the same designer who created her Inaugural (就职)Ball dress four years ago -- and the risk paid off.
The First Lady looked extremely attractive in a thin, sweeping, and ruby-colored dress by designer Jason Wu. She teamed the dramatic dress with heels by Jimmy Choo and a diamond ring by Kimberly McDonald.
She surprised the fashion establishment by returning to a Wu design which had been the custom made for her.
Four years ago at her first Inauguration Ball, Michelle shimmered(熠熠生辉)in an off-white, one-shouldered floor-length dress by the designer.
Wu, who was 26 at the time and had only been working in fashion for three years, saw his career take off after the First Lady's surprise decision to wear one of his dresses.
He said at the time that he was unaware she had chosen the dress and had been watching at home on his couch and eating pizza when she appeared.
After her 2013 decision, Wu told Women's Wear Daily: “Mrs Obama likes to keep her secrets. She fooled me again.”
Wu released a women's clothing and accessories(装饰品)collection at Target last year and continues to be popular with the First Lady for official engagements.
The sleeveless, cross-halter neck dress with low-cut back flattered(突出)49-year-old Michelle's arms and neat waist.
It had been created especially for her by Wu and was a departure from the dark and plain colour tone she stuck to at earlier inauguration events.
Mrs Obama's new hairstyle -- she had bangs(美发沙龙)cut on her birthday last week had been loosely tousled(蓬松的)for the special night.
Vice-President Joe Biden's wife Jill also looked attractive in a blue silk dress by Vera Wang at the Inauguration Ball.
1.What does the passage mainly talk about?
A. Designer Wu’s great works
B. Mrs. Obama’s decision to return to her former fashion designer
C. The First Lady’s secrets.
D. Wu, a great designer.
2.Michelle Obama’s brave decision proved to be a_________.
A. risk B. danger C. Surprise D. success
3.According to the passage, which of the following is correct?
A. Mrs Obama’s inaugural dresses were made by the same designer.
B. Joe Biden’s wife Jill also had her dress created by Wu.
C. The colour tone at Michelle’s earlier inaugural events was not satisfactory.
D. Mrs Obama had straight forehead hair as her new hairstyle for the special night.
4.Which of the following best describes Jason Wu?
A. Daring and gifted. B. Unusual and cautious.
C. Careful and brave. D. Talented and lucky.
高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
I think________efforts we have made to construct________new DeZhou are paying off
A.不填;the | B.the;a | C.the;不填 | D.不填;a |
高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
______ the sight was impressive on the top of the mountain, I made an effort to climb onto it.
A. To know B. Know
C. Known D. Knowing
高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
Apple and Microsoft each launched new products. One company astonished everyone. The other made people sleepy. Can you guess which was which? You probably guessed wrong. Because Apple, famous for its creative products, was the tech giant whose new product caused a collective shrug(耸肩). While Microsoft, which stole a move out of the Apple Playbook, won cheers from high-end, creative-class consumers like business analysts, media designers and music producers.
As Hayley Tsukayama remarked at The Washington Post, the Surface Studio, one of Microsoft's new products, is really just a super-sized version of the Surface Books product that Microsoft has been selling for years. But if you've ever watched science fiction movies like Minority report--where Tom Cruise seems to operate pictures and data hanging on mid-air by touching them, spreading his fingers to increase on details, and sending files and information sliding from one folder to another with a click of the fingers, you can see how Microsoft is trying to show the same experience.
Meanwhile, apple's new products were almost like some fine promotions for its Apple TV. They boast(炫耀)that the new Macbook Pros has a smaller size and more functions, and a new touch screen bar on laptop keyboards where function keys used to be.
So what's going on? In many ways, Apple is focusing on attracting the average consumers who have been attracted by Microsoft. And Microsoft is focusing on targeting the high-end professionals Apple has historically been associated with. You can even see this is the companies' ad campaigns: Microsoft's ads stress imagination and creativity, while Apple,s commercial chief performance and convenience of its Macbooks.
So Apple is trying to control the world of devices and laptops from the top down, starting with the high-end market and moving on to appeal to a broader base of consumers. Microsoft, having already strengthened itself within the bigger low-end market, is now attempting the opposite with a bottom-up strategy. Will these succeed? Time will tell...
1.What can we learn from the first paragraph?
A. Microsoft's new products made a big hit.
B. Apple's products aim at high-end consumers.
C. Apple and Microsoft developed the same products.
D. The design of Microsoft's products is original and unique.
2.Why does the author mention the science fiction movie in Paragraph 2?
A. To show how trendy Microsoft’s new products are.
B. To tell us Microsoft's new products can be used in movies.
C. To encourage more people to see the science fiction movie.
D. To show Microsoft’s new products are inspired by the movie.
3.What can we infer from the last two parts of the text?
A. Apple is changing its focus on consumer groups from average to high-end ones.
B. Microsoft is changing its focus on consumer groups from high-end to average ones.
C. The two companies are adopting different business strategies from their own before.
D. The two companies are facing fierce competition with each other.
4.In which section of a newspaper can we most probably read this passage?
A. Leisure and Entertainment.
B. Economics and Business.
C. Culture and Education.
D. Life and Fashion.
高三英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析
On one of her trips to New York several years ago, Eudora Welty decided to take a couple of New York friends out to dinner. They settled in at a comfortable East Side cafe and within minutes, another customer was approaching their table.
“Hey, aren’t you from Mississippi?” the elegant, white-haired writer remembered being asked by the stranger. “I’m from Mississippi too.”
Without a second thought, the woman joined the Welty party. When her dinner partner showed up, she also pulled up a chair.
“They began telling me all the news of Mississippi,” Welty said. “I didn’t know what my New York friends were thinking.”
Taxis on a rainy New York night are rarer than sunshine. By the time the group got up to leave, it was pouring outside. Welty’s new friends immediately sent a waiter to find a cab. Heading back downtown toward her hotel, her big-city friends were amazed at the turn of events that had changed their Big Apple dinner into a Mississippi.
“My friends said: ‘Now we believe your stories,’” Welty added. “And I said: ‘Now you know. These are the people that make me write them.’”
Sitting on a sofa in her room, Welty, a slim figure in a simple gray dress, looked pleased with this explanation.
“I don’t make them up,” she said of the characters in her fiction these last 50 or so years. “I don’t have to.”
Beauticians, bartenders, piano players and people with purple hats, Welty’s people come from afternoons spent visiting with old friends, from walks through the streets of her native Jackson, Miss., from conversations overheard on a bus. It annoys Welty that, at 78, her left ear has now given out. Sometimes, sitting on a bus or a train, she hears only a fragment(片段) of a particularly interesting story.
1.What happened when Welty was with her friends at the cafe?
A.Two strangers joined her.
B.Her childhood friends came in.
C.A heavy rain ruined the dinner.
D.Some people held a party there.
2.The underlined word “them” in Paragraph 6 refers to Welty’s ________.
A.readers B.parties
C.friends D.stories
3.What can we learn about the characters in Welty’s fiction?
A.They live in big cities.
B.They are mostly women.
C.They come from real life.
D.They are pleasure seekers.
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