Hundreds of students from around the world gathered in New York City last week for the Microsoft Imagine Cup finals. They came to present their ideas for using technology to solve world problems.
Microsoft education director Suzi Levine says the nine-year-old program began mainly as a competition to create technology.
SUZI LEVINE: "When we realized that students really actually want to have a purpose for what they're creating, we introduced the idea of inspiring them with the UN Millennium Development Goals and suggesting that they use those for their muse(靈感). "This past year we also rolled out something called the Imagine Cup Solve This library（創(chuàng)新杯求解計(jì)劃知識(shí)庫(kù)）, where IGOs, NGOs and nonprofits can submit some of the technical challenges that they would like students to consider for their solutions."
Microsoft says over 350，000 high school and college students registered for this year's competition. Judges chose more than four hundred of them to attend the finals.
SUZI LEVINE: "One from Thailand was called NewKrean, where they created a Windows Phone 7 application that allows you to broadcast your location to your social network of friends so that you can be more easily rescued." They named their application Terra.
Suzi Levine says there were also ideas from Egypt inspired by the revolution that overthrew president Hosni Mubarak in February.
SUZI LEVINE: "One was to use Bluetooth as sort of a Twitter equivalent so that if the government shuts down the Internet, you actually can still have a massive social distribution."
Students competed in nine categories. For example, in software design the top prize of twenty-five thousand dollars went to Team Hermes from Ireland. The students developed a device for cars to collect information on road conditions, driving behavior and traffic incidents.
A team from Taiwan's National Tsing Hua University won first place in the embedded（內(nèi)嵌的） development category. They developed a network of wireless devices to help plot the safest escape routes during a fire.
Next year's awards ceremony will take place in Australia. Registration for Imagine Cup twenty-twelve opened Friday. Also, Microsoft announced plans for a three million dollar program to help Imagine Cup winners further develop their projects.
小題1:Which of the following is true ?
A．The program is sponsored by Microsoft.
B．Next year, the awards ceremony will be held in New York City.
C．Any high school or college student can attend the finals.
D．The initial purpose of the program is to solve world problems using technology.
小題2: What can we infer from the third paragraph?
A．The UN offers great help to the program.
B．Microsoft sets up a library for the students who want to achieve their goals.
C．IGOs, NGOs and nonprofits also provide help for the students.
D．Microsoft takes effective measures to inspire the students.
小題3:What does the underlined word “overthrew ” in Paragraph 6 mean ?
A． AbandonedB．SupportedC．Drove awayD．Overturned
小題4:What can we know from Paragraph 7?
A．They want to replace Bluetooth with Twitter.
B．They want to combine Bluetooth with Twitter.
C．They want to replace Twitter with Bluetooth.
D．Twitter can still be used without the Internet.

小題1:A
小題2:D
小題3:D
小題4:C

試題分析：本文介紹微軟主辦的一項(xiàng)學(xué)生想象杯比賽，旨在鼓勵(lì)學(xué)生使用科技解決世界問(wèn)題，微軟使用有效的方法激發(fā)學(xué)生。
小題1:細(xì)節(jié)題：從第一段的句子：Hundreds of students from around the world gathered in New York City last week for the Microsoft Imagine Cup finals.可知這個(gè)比賽是微軟主辦的。選A
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)題：從第三段的句子：we introduced the idea of inspiring them with the UN Millennium Development Goals and suggesting that they use those for their muse(靈感).可知微軟使用有效的方法激發(fā)學(xué)生。選D
小題3:猜詞題：從前面的revolution一詞，可知是推翻總統(tǒng)的革命，選D
小題4:細(xì)節(jié)題：從第七段的句子：One was to use Bluetooth as sort of a Twitter equivalent so that if the government shuts down the Internet 可知學(xué)生想用推特代替藍(lán)牙。選C
點(diǎn)評(píng)：本文介紹微軟主辦的一項(xiàng)學(xué)生想象杯比賽，旨在鼓勵(lì)學(xué)生使用科技解決世界問(wèn)題，微軟使用有效的方法激發(fā)學(xué)生。這類閱讀理解要求考生根據(jù)文章所述事件的邏輯關(guān)系，對(duì)未說(shuō)明的趨勢(shì)或結(jié)局作出合理的推斷；或根據(jù)作者所闡述的觀點(diǎn)理論，對(duì)文章未涉及的現(xiàn)象、事例給以解釋�？忌紫纫屑�(xì)閱讀短文，完整了解信息，準(zhǔn)確把握作者觀點(diǎn)。
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