Question

Back those photos up
The images were striking. Homes on the East Coast were washed away by Superstorm 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 SkyDrive 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 SkyDrive. 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.
【小題1】Why does the author mention Superstorm 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.

【小題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.

【小題3】Which of the following allows storing files automatically?

A．Dropbox.

B．SkyDrive.

C．Caronite.

D．Flash drive.

【小題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．a(chǎn)rgue about the advantage of storage services

Answer 1

【小題1】C
【小題2】B
【小題3】C
【小題4】A

解析試題分析：文章介紹了一些儲存照片的軟件。詳細介紹了它們的功能和優(yōu)點。
【小題1】寫作意圖題：從第一段的句子：Homes on the East Coast were washed away by Superstorm Sandy. People were in tears, picking up faded photographs, among their only remaining possessions. 可知作者提到Superstorm Sandy. 中人們撿起照片是他們唯一剩下的財產(chǎn)，這樣吸引人們對backups.的興趣。選C
【小題2】細節(jié)題：從倒數(shù)第三段的句子：But photo collection on your computer’s main hard drive charges for $59 a year.可知是Caronite從電腦硬盤上收費的。選B
【小題3】細節(jié)題：從倒數(shù)第二段的句子：For folks who don’t need automatic backup, but instead want to take a more active approach, Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft’s SkyDrive let you store files online by yourself, 可知A. Dropbox. B. SkyDrive. D. Flash drive.都不是自動儲存的文件。選C
【小題4】主旨題：文章介紹了一些儲存照片的軟件。選A
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點評：文章介紹了一些儲存照片的軟件。它們的功能和優(yōu)點。屬于信息篩選類短文，文本所給信息非常豐富，要求考生從中選出適合題目要求的信息。解此類題目時，考生可以先閱讀題目和選項，了解具體要求，然后再仔細閱讀文章，認真篩選甄別，這樣的閱讀就有的放矢，可以大大提高閱讀的速度和效率。