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.C

2.B

3.C

4.A

【解析】

试题分析：如今随着我们电脑的频繁更换，电脑内存储的照片、资料等成了大问题。本文介绍了几种存储备份服务项目，有网上自动储存但是收费的Caronite，还有需手动上传的Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft’s Sky Drive 等服务，最后还提到了硬盘和闪盘的备份。

1.C推理判断题。根据文章第二段If that doesn’t move you to get serious about safekeeping your lifetime of memories, what will?可知首段的描述为的是引起人们注意，让人们重视照片的存储问题，选C。

2.B细节理解题。根据文中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对于从硬盘上来备份照片是收费的，选B。

3.C推理判断题。根据文章倒数第二段For folks who don’t need automatic backup, ….. Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft’s Sky Drive let you store files online by yourself,“不想自动备份的人们可以使用Sky Drive和 Dropbox,进行手动储存”，由此推断Caronite.是可以自动备份的，故答案选C。

4.A推理判断题。文章在首段描绘了照片丢失的场景，在第二段提出人们应该认真对待对照片的储存问题，然后在第三段提到Here is a brochure on how to back up (存) your photos and save them online“这里有本关于如何在网上储存照片的小册子”，最后介绍了几种存储方式，由此推断文章的写作目的就是介绍几项存储功能服务，故答案选A。

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