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. 
【小題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. 
【小題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. 
【小題3】 Which of the following allows storing files automatically?
A．Dropbox.  B．SkyDrive.  C．Caronite. D．Flash drive. 
【小題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．a(chǎn)rgue about the advantage of storage services 


【小題1】C
【小題2】B
【小題3】C
【小題4】A

解析試題分析：如今隨著我們電腦的頻繁更換，電腦內(nèi)存儲(chǔ)的照片、資料等成了大問題。本文介紹了幾種存儲(chǔ)備份服務(wù)項(xiàng)目，有網(wǎng)上自動(dòng)儲(chǔ)存但是收費(fèi)的Caronite，還有需手動(dòng)上傳的Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft’s Sky Drive 等服務(wù)，最后還提到了硬盤和閃盤的備份。
【小題1】C推理判斷題。根據(jù)文章第二段If that doesn’t move you to get serious about safekeeping your lifetime of memories, what will?可知首段的描述為的是引起人們注意，讓人們重視照片的存儲(chǔ)問題，選C。
【小題2】B細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)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對(duì)于從硬盤上來備份照片是收費(fèi)的，選B。
【小題3】C推理判斷題。根據(jù)文章倒數(shù)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,“不想自動(dòng)備份的人們可以使用Sky Drive和 Dropbox,進(jìn)行手動(dòng)儲(chǔ)存”，由此推斷Caronite.是可以自動(dòng)備份的，故答案選C。
【小題4】A推理判斷題。文章在首段描繪了照片丟失的場景，在第二段提出人們應(yīng)該認(rèn)真對(duì)待對(duì)照片的儲(chǔ)存問題，然后在第三段提到Here is a brochure on how to back up (存) your photos and save them online“這里有本關(guān)于如何在網(wǎng)上儲(chǔ)存照片的小冊(cè)子”，最后介紹了幾種存儲(chǔ)方式，由此推斷文章的寫作目的就是介紹幾項(xiàng)存儲(chǔ)功能服務(wù)，故答案選A。
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