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Part I: Cloze (10%)
Directions: In this part you are asked to choose the best word for each blank in the passage. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET.
Comedian George Carlin has a routine in which he talks about how humans seem to spend their lives accumulating "stuff". Once they've gathered enough stub, they have to find places to store all of it. If Carlin were to update that routine today, he could make the same [1] ____ about computer innovation. It seems that everyone with a computer spends a lot of time acquiring data and then trying to find a way to [2] ____ it.
For some computer owners finding enough storage space to hold all the data they've acquired is a real challenge. Some people invest in larger hard drives. Others prefer [3] ____ storage devices like thumb drives or compact discs. Desperate computer owners might delete entire folders worth of old files in order to make space for new information. [4] ____ some are choosing to rely on a growing trend: cloud storage.
While cloud storage sounds like it has something to do with weather [5] ____ and storm systems, it really refers to saving data [6] ____ an off-site storage system maintained by a third party. [7] ____ storing information to your computer's hard drive or other local storage device, you save it to a remote database. The Internet provides the connection between your computer and the database.
On the surface, cloud storage has several advantages [8] ____ traditional data storage. For example, if you store your data on a cloud storage system, you'll be able to get to that data from any location that has Internet access. You [9] ____ need to carry around a [10] ____ storage device or use the same computer to save and [11] ____ your information. With the right storage system, you could even allow other people to access the data, turning a personal project into a [12] ____ effort.
So cloud storage is convenient and offers more [13] ____, but how does it work? There are hundreds of different cloud storage systems. Some have a very specific [14] ____, such as storing Web e-mail messages or digital pictures. Others are [15] ____ to store all forms of digital data. Some cloud storage systems are small operations, while others are so large that the physical equipment can fill [16] ____ an entire warehouse. The facilities that [17] ____ cloud storage systems are called data centers.
At its most basic level, a cloud storage system needs just one data server [18] ____ to the Internet. A client (e.g., a computer user subscribing to a cloud storage service) sends copies of files over the Internet to the data server, which then records the information. When the client wishes to retrieve the information, he or she accesses the data server through a Web-based interface. The server then either sends the files back to the client or allows the client to access and manipulate the files on the server itself.
Cloud storage systems generally rely on hundreds of data servers. Because computers [19] ____ require maintenance or repair, it's important to store the same information on multiple machines. This is called redundancy. Without redundancy, a cloud storage system couldn't [20] ____ clients that they could access their information at any given time. Most systems store the same data on servers that use differs power supplies. That way, clients can access their data even if one power supply fails.
1. | A. | examination | B. | observation | C | inspection | D. | acquaintance |
2. | A. | store | B. | update | C. | process | D. | accumulate |
3. | A. | internal | B. | portable | C. | local | D. | external |
4. | A. | But | B. | While | C. | And | D. | So |
5. | A. | forecast | B. | report | C. | fronts | D. | system |
6. | A. | onto | B. | to | C. | in | D. | upon |
7. | A. | Apart from | B. | Other than | C. | instead of | D. | regardless of |
8. | A. | than | B. | except | C. | for | D. | over |
9. | A. | shouldn't | B. | wouldn't | C. | mustn't | D. | couldn't |
10. | A. | physical | B. | substantial | C. | tangible | D. | local |
11. | A. | store | B. | share | C. | access | D. | retrieve |
12. | A. | comprehensive | B | collaborative | C. | coordinated | D. | combining |
13. | A. | opportunity | B. | chance | C. | convenience | D. | favor |
14. | A. | focus | B. | purpose | C. | use | D. | operation |
15. | A. | available | B. | capable | C. | applicable | D. | desirable |
16. | A. | in | B. | up | C. | for | D. | into |
17. | A. | hold | B. | save | C. | house | D. | run |
18. | A. | connecting | B. | connected | C. | connect | D. | being |
19. | A. | probably | B. | inconveniently | C. | invariably | D. | occasionally |
20. | A. | ensure | B. | promise | C. | assure | D. | guarantee |
参考答案：
1. 选B。前文讲了Carlin观察到人们有积累东西的习惯。因此在提出computer innovation时，用observation来指代Carlin在前文中所做的行为。
2. 选A。store指将数据储存下来。
3. 选D。external 指外部储存设备，相对于电脑中的硬盘而言，拇指存储器和光盘都是外部存储。
4. 选A。前文说有人会删除旧数据为新数据腾出空间，而后文则说有人会利用云存储，显然这是一个转折关系。
5. 选A。weather forecast指天气预报。
6. 选B。save something to somewhere为固定搭配。
7. 选C。前半部分“将数据存入硬盘”显然对于云存储来说，是否定的内容，因此用instead of。
8. 选D。advantage over为固定搭配，指比起...来更占优势。
9. 选B。原文指“你将不需要随身携带存储设备”，shouldn't指不该；couldn't指不能；mustn't 指绝对不可以，均与文意不符。
10. 选A。physical storage device是固定词组，指物理存储设备。
11. 选D。retrieve在此指检索计算机存储信息。
12. 选B。collaborative 指通力合作的，而coordinated指协调的；combining指结合的；comprehensive指广泛的，综合的，均与文意不符。
13. 选C。云存储让存储方式多样化，可变通，因此选flexibility。
14. 选A。原味指“有些云存储用途十分单一明确”。