To read the data in the future, __________.
[A] a mixed format has been used
[B] a new format has been created
[C] ancient manuscripts are made use of
[D] historians have voiced their opinion
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根据所听材料,回答 27~29 题
第 27 题 Why can't some people get the health care services they need?
[A] Because they don't have the citizenship.
[B] Because they can't afford them.
[C] Because there are not enough medical insurance services.
[D] Because they live too far from good hospitals.
根据下面材料,回答 92~96 题
Clothing was not in any way a practical necessity in ancient Egypt. Egypt (and most of the rest of North Africa) was not the mainly desert country it is today, subject to the temperature extremes that a dry climate generates. Then it was a lush, food-producing country, subject to annual flooding, and a warm, humid climate.Clothing was therefore a luxury item of no great practical value.Slaves and the poor in surviving ancient Egyptian art are therefore usually depicted in little more than loincloths. As people went up the social scale more clothing and jewelry was worn, but even then the fabric of the clothing is light and designed more to accentuate the shape of the body than conceal it. ①The most elaborate Egyptian clothing was worn by the Pharaohs and their queens as symbols of power.
It is thought by some that royal Egyptians practiced body modification by wrapping the skulls of infants and altering the head shape to be more egg-like than rounded in adulthood, others ascribe this to a natural genetic fluke in the royal family. Aristocratic Egyptians also often shaved their heads (and other body hair) and wore wigs instead of natural hair to formal occasions. Kohl eye makeup was worn by both sexes, as were perfumes and body oils. During banquets, guests wore small mounds of beeswax impregnated with perfumed oil on top of their wigs;these mounds would melt into the wigs with the heat of the room, releasing scent, during the course of the party. Jewelry was the dominant costume focus, worn by both sexes; numerous examples of ancient Egyptian jewelry survive in museums. Clothing has been less fortunate in survival, but linen textile scraps remain to indicate that the mostly white pleated materials that are shown in ancient drawings were probably fine linens.These pleated linen garments are usually depicted as straight pieces of cloth, pleated to give a body-hugging stretch that are wrapped in a variety of ways and tied or tucked in front.
第 92 题 As described in the passage, both sexes of ancient Egypt did the following things EXCEPT __________.
[A] using perfumes
[B] wearing jewelry [C] wearing eye makeup
[D] wearing skirts
根据下面材料,回答 82~85 题
The idea came to Nathan Eagle, a research scientist with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, when he was doing a teaching stint in rural Kenya. He realised that, as three-quarters of the 4.6 billion mobile-phone users worldwide live in developing countries, a useful piece of technology is now being placed in the hands of a large number of people who might be keen to use their devices to make some money. ① To help them do so, he came up with a service called txteagle which distributes small jobs via text messaging in return for small payments.
Only 18% of people in the developing world have access to the Internet, but more than 50% owned a mobile-phone handset at the end of 2009 (a number which has more than doubled since 2005 ) , according to the International Telecommunication Union. One study shows that adding ten mobile phones per 100 people in atypical developing country boosts growth in GDP per person by 0.8 percentage points.
Mr. Eagle hopes txteagle will do its bit by mobile “crowdsourcing”—breaking down jobs into small tasks and sending them to lots of individuals. These jobs often involve local knowledge and range from things like checking what street signs say in rural Sudan for a satellite-navigation service to translating words into a Kenyan dialect for companies trying to spread their marketing. ② A woman living in rural Brazil or India may have limited access to work, adds Mr. Eagle, “but she can still use her mobile phone to collect local price and product data or even complete market-research surveys.” Payments are transferred to a user's phone by a mobile money service, such as the M-PESA system run by Safaricom in Africa, or by providing additional calling credit.
Working with over 220 mobile operators, txteagle is able to reach 2 billion subscribers in 80 countries. It already has the largest contract-labour force in Kenya and new ways of using it are being found all the time.Recently a large media firm asked Mr. Eagle for help in monitoring its television commercials across Africa. The company was concerned that, although it had paid for broadcasting rights, its ads could be replaced with others by local television companies. So txteagle pays locals to watch and then text notes about which ads are shown.“I would never think of that myself,” says Mr. Eagle. Which is why he is not sure just how big all these small text jobs could become.
第 82 题 The one who is most likely to use txteagle is __________.
[A] an aggressive man aiming to make a fortune
[B] a young mother who is busy with housework
[C] a poor man who has just lost his job
[D] a rich man who idles around the whole day