Question

Back those photos up

The images were striking. Homes on the East Coast were washed away by Super storm Sandy. People were in tears, picking up faded photographs, among their only remaining possessions.

If that doesn’t move you to get serious about safekeeping your lifetime of memories, what will? The digital age offers tools never imaginable before—including one-click access to a lifetime of family photos.

Here is a brochure on how to back up (存) your photos and save them online, where they can live forever and be accessible in good times and bad.

Scanning

The first step for those old photos is to scan them and save them to a digital format. Most printers come with scanners these days, so that’s an easy but extremely time-consuming step.

Storing the photos

With your scans in place, import the photos into your computer, and back them up.

You could make multiple copies of the disks and spread them to loved ones. Or you could choose external(外接的) hard drives or USB thumb drive, and add your photo and video collection from your computer. 

Online backup

If you need lots of space, look at a pure online backup service, Caronite.     

Caronite backs up 300 million files daily. Once you sign up, it starts to pick up everything you have on your hard drive. But photo collection on your computer’s main hard drive charges for $59 a year.

Cloud Storage

For folks who don’t need automatic backup, but instead want to take a more active approach, Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft’s Sky Drive let you store files online by yourself, share and instantly access them. All offer free options—2GB of free storage for Dropbox, 5GB for Google and 7GB for Sky Drive. But if you want more, you need to pay.

Bottom Line

The hard drive or flash drive is the cheapest and easiest. But drives can fail. Online services are more expensive, but more secure. With more of us switching back and forth between our computers, such services are the best way to get access to our data from wherever we are. 

1.Why does the author mention Super storm Sandy?

A. To tell the background of the scanning photos.     

B. To describe a severe natural disaster.

C. To attract the readers’ interest in the backups.       

D. To win the readers’ sympathy.

2. What can we know from the passage? 

A. Scanning photos take little time but costs a lot.  

B. Caronite charges for backing up photos from hard drive.

C. Google Drive offers unlimited free photo storage on line.

D. The hard drive or flash drive is the cheapest and safest.

3. Which of the following allows storing files automatically?

A. Dropbox.         B. SkyDrive.     C. Caronite.     D. Flash drive.

4.The main purpose of the passage is to _____.

A. introduce some of the storage services

B. tell real stories about storage services 

C. describe the functions of storage services    

D. argue about the advantage of storage services

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.C

2.B

3.C

4.A

【解析】

試題分析：如今隨著我們電腦的頻繁更換，電腦內存儲的照片、資料等成了大問題。本文介紹了幾種存儲備份服務項目，有網上自動儲存但是收費的Caronite，還有需手動上傳的Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft’s Sky Drive 等服務，最后還提到了硬盤和閃盤的備份。

1.C推理判斷題。根據文章第二段If that doesn’t move you to get serious about safekeeping your lifetime of memories, what will?可知首段的描述為的是引起人們注意，讓人們重視照片的存儲問題，選C。

2.B細節理解題。根據文中Caronite backs up 300 million files daily. …..But photo collection on your computer’s main hard drive charges for $59 a year.可知Caronite對于從硬盤上來備份照片是收費的，選B。

3.C推理判斷題。根據文章倒數第二段For folks who don’t need automatic backup, ….. Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft’s Sky Drive let you store files online by yourself,“不想自動備份的人們可以使用Sky Drive和 Dropbox,進行手動儲存”，由此推斷Caronite.是可以自動備份的，故答案選C。

4.A推理判斷題。文章在首段描繪了照片丟失的場景，在第二段提出人們應該認真對待對照片的儲存問題，然后在第三段提到Here is a brochure on how to back up (存) your photos and save them online“這里有本關于如何在網上儲存照片的小冊子”，最后介紹了幾種存儲方式，由此推斷文章的寫作目的就是介紹幾項存儲功能服務，故答案選A。

考點：考查廣告布告類短文閱讀。