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 (手册) 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 (格式)．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．

1. 1.
   What can we know from the passage?
   1. A.
      Scanning photos takes little time but costs a lot．
   2. B.
      The hard drive or flash drive is the cheapest and safest．
   3. C.
      Google Drive offers unlimited free photo storage on line．
   4. D.
      Caronite charges for backing up photos from hard drive．
2. 2.
   Which of the following allows storing files automatically?
   1. A.
      Caronite．
   2. B.
      Dropbox．
   3. C.
      SkyDrive．
   4. D.
      Flash drive
3. 3.
   The main purpose of the passage is to ______．
   1. A.
      tell real stories about storage services
   2. B.
      introduce some of the storage services
   3. C.
      describe the functions of storage services
   4. D.
      argue about the advantage of storage services

Answer 1

DAB
试题分析：文章讲述了如何用现代技术的方法来拷贝你的图片或是别的重要的东西，并提供了指导步骤。
1.细节题。从文章Caronite backs up 300 million files daily．Once you sign up, it starts to pick up everything you have on your hard drive．可知，Caronite负责从硬盘驱动器中拷贝图片，故选D
2.细节题。从文章Once you sign up, it starts to pick up everything you have on your hard drive．及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,可知只有Caronite 能够自动的进行存储文件，故选A
3.细节推断题。从全来看特别是第二自然段Here is a brochure (手册) 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．可知，本文的目的是介绍几种存储东西的服务，故选B
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