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1、考研英语(阅读)-试卷 96 及答案解析(总分:70.00,做题时间:90 分钟)一、Reading Comprehensio(总题数:7,分数:70.00)1.Section II Reading Comprehension(分数:10.00)_2.Part ADirections: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D.(分数:10.00)_The staggering variety of free stuff available on th
2、e Internet sometimes seems to have repealed the first law of economics: There“s no such thing as a free lunch. But as so often happens, the dismal science actually has it right. When it looks like you“re getting something for nothing, somebody is paying, and it“s often instructive to know who that i
3、s. I“ve been testing a new phone service called ooma that provides an interesting case in point. Once you pay $399 up front for a box called the ooma Hub and connect it to your phone and the Internet via your home network, you are promised free, unlimited phone calls over two lines, plus voice mail.
4、 The system works fine and is simple to set up. When a voice-over-Internet call has to go to a regular phone number, a service such as ooma usually has to pay a “termination fee“ to a carrier such as Verizon. Skype, for example, charges 2% per minute for calls outside the Skype network. But ooma avo
5、ids this by using some of its customersthose who have kept regular phone linesto serve as gateways onto the local phone network at no charge. When you want to call outside the ooma network, the call moves from your Hub over the Internet to a second landline-connected Hub within the destination“s loc
6、al calling area. The Hub dials the target number and patches the call through. In effect, ooma customers with landlines pay to keep the whole system going. You don“t even notice if your landline is being used because your own phone calls go out over your broadband connection, with your flat-rate mon
7、thly phone bill covering the ooma traffic. In fact, this improves the efficiency of the phone system by putting idle lines to work. But if ooma ever gains real traction, I expect a legal assault from big phone companies, which are losing income from termination fees. Web services do take advantage o
8、f genuine economies. The phone network is more expensive than the Net. Lots of Net players build on these advantages. Skype relies on selected users who act, often without their knowledge, as “super nodes“ to manage the system. FreeC provides calls by taking advantage of regulatory quirksnamely, the
9、 stiff termination fees long-distance carriers must pay to certain rural phone companies that handle calls into their territory. In effect, the free conferences are subsidized by customers and shareholders of the long-distance carriers. You may as well enjoy free calls while you can. But it“s always
10、 a good idea to read the fine print. If it isn“t obvious who“s paying for a free service, it might well be you.(分数:10.00)(1).The phrase “a free lunch“ (Para 1) implies that the free stuff on the Internet seems to be _.(分数:2.00)A.totally freeB.impossible as a free lunchC.as right as the scienceD.paid
11、 by someone you know(2).The ooma system promised free, unlimited phone calls by _.(分数:2.00)A.connecting the ooma Hub to your phoneB.taking advantage of their customersC.paying termination fee to carrier VerizonD.keeping regular local phone lines(3).It could be concluded from the passage that the oom
12、a service _.(分数:2.00)A.worked illegally by losing termination feesB.improved the efficiency of the phone systemC.was paid by the ooma customersD.covered the ooma traffic by broadband connection(4).One cannot notice if the landline is being used by others because _.(分数:2.00)A.the ooma traffic cannot
13、be calculated by the outside networkB.your monthly phone bill still remains stable with new trafficC.your Hub will dial the target number from a second HubD.the whole system keeps going with the broadband connection(5).The author suggests that readers _.(分数:2.00)A.enjoy their free callsB.pay their b
14、ills by themselvesC.read carefully their billsD.avoid paying others“ billsTechnology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder. This spiral of complexity, often called “feature creep,“ costs consumers tim
15、e, but it also costs businesses money.Product returns in the U.S. cost a hundred billion dollars a year, and a recent study by Elke den Ouden, of Philips Electronics,found that at least half of returned products have nothing wrong with them. Consumers just couldn“t figure out how to use them. Compan
16、ies now know a great deal about problems of usability and consumer behavior, so why is it that feature creep proves unstoppable? In part, feature creep is the product of the so-called internal-audience problem: the people who design and sell products are not the ones who buy and use them, and what e
17、ngineers and marketers think is important is not necessarily what“s best for consumers. The engineers tend not to notice when more options make a product less usable. And marketing and sales departments see each additional feature as a new selling point, and a new way to lure customers. You might th
18、ink, then, that companies could avoid feature creep by just paying attention to what customers really want. But that“s where the trouble begins, because although consumers find overloaded gadgets unmanageable, they also find them attractive. It turns out that when we look at a new product in a store
19、 we tend to think that the more features there are, the better. It“s only once we get the product home and try to use it that we realize the virtues of simplicity. It seems odd that we don“t anticipate feature fatigue and thus avoid it. But, as numerous studies have shown, people are not, in general
20、, good at predicting what will make them happy in the future. As a result, we will pay more for more features because we systematically overestimate how often we“ll use them. We also overestimate our ability to figure out how a complicated product works. The fact that buyers want bells and whistles
21、but users want something clear and simple creates a peculiar problem for companies.A product that doesn“t have enough features may fail to catch our eye in the store. But a product with too many features is likely to annoy consumers and generate bad word of mouth, as BMWs original iDrive system did.
22、(分数:10.00)(1).In the first paragraph, the author mainly discusses _.(分数:2.00)A.the benefits brought by the advanced technologyB.the recent study conducted by Elke den OudenC.the loss incurred by the feature creep of technologyD.many problems of usability known by the consumers(2).Which of the follow
23、ing is true according to the second paragraph?(分数:2.00)A.It is the audience problem that leads to feature creep.B.What matters to designers and marketers is not good for consumers.C.Feature creep brings blessings to the people in marketing and sales.D.The engineers will not pay attention to the qual
24、ity of the products.(3).Companies find it difficult to avoid feature creep because consumers _.(分数:2.00)A.find complex gadgets easy to manageB.are attracted by gadgets with more featuresC.do not like the gadgets featured by simplicityD.know the virtues of complexity very well(4).It is stated in Para
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