The smartphone has become the centerpiece of many students' digital lives.
Yes, it can be a distraction(困擾，分心), but it is also an incredible tool that can transform classroom learning and late-night studying.
Professors and students are starting to explore what the smartphone can contribute to learning-and there is a whole host of apps（設(shè)備） to help that process along. There are also plenty of apps to help students with the less academic parts of college life.
To download any of these apps, search the iTunes App Store or Android Market. iOS apps are built for Apple's mobile platform and can run on the iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad.
Skype
Cost: Free
Platform: Android, BlackBerry, iOS
More and more smartphones now ship with front-facing cameras that make them great video chat tools.
There are several competitors here ---- including Apple's FaceTime ----but Skype is still the best cross-platform tool for keeping in touch with faraway friends and family. Users on either end can be on a computer, smartphone.
Grades 2
Cost: Free
Platform: iOS
This app is a sophisticated tool for calculating grades. Students can use it to figure out what grade they'll need on a test to achieve their target grade and also keeps track of overall GPA, weighted by each class's credit count.
Students can also enter due dates for assignments as reminders.
The app is free and supported by ads, but users can pay $1 inside the app to turn them off.
Snoozerr Recordings
Cost: 99 cents
Platform: iOS
This is a great tool for logging long lecture classes or smaller study sessions(授課時間）． It records audio and pairs that with time-stamped pictures that the student takes of presentations--- say, equations（方程）on a blackboard----or of his or her own notes.
When the student wants to review, he or she can use the pictures as a visual guide to what the instructor was saying and replay that section.
TED
Cost: Free
Platform: iOS
This app is great for the student in everyone. It compiles（編輯）video from hundreds of presentations at technology, entertainment and design----a conference that features short speeches focused on new ways of thinking.
Presenters often speak about technology, social good or education and challenge societal norms.
It's a great way to spend an hour or so hearing from some of the world's leading minds for free. All of the videos are also available at www.ted.com.
AroundMe
Cost: Free
Platform: Android and iOS
This app uses a smartphone's GPS to find nearby locations by category such as banks, gas stations, bars, coffee shops, restaurants and supermarkets---- all the college staples(主要產(chǎn)品).
小題1:In which section of a newspaper could you find this article?
A．Science & Tech.B．Entertainment.C．Life.D．Tourism.
小題2:What might be the best title for the text?
A．How to Improve College Students' Studies
B．How to Download Computer Games
C．How to Choose the Latest Smartphone
D．Five Tech Tools for College Students
小題3:Many college students use Grades 2 mainly for _____.
A．chattingB．calculating
C．hearing speechesD．recording lectures
小題4:If you want to use your smartphone to find a nearby supermarket, you should download _____.          .
A．TEDB．AroundMeC．SkypeD．Grades 2
小題5:ios means _____.
A．TEDB．VCSC．OSD．ECX

小題1:A
小題2:D
小題3:B
小題4:B
小題5:A

試題分析：智能手機(jī)成了學(xué)生們電子生活的中心，這篇文章向大家推薦了五種適合大學(xué)生們使用的技術(shù)工具。
小題1:A 推理判斷題。文章講的是大學(xué)生們可以使用的五種有用的技術(shù)工具，這應(yīng)該出現(xiàn)在報(bào)紙的科技版面。而不是娛樂、生活或旅游版面。
小題2:D 第三段最后一句話：There are also plenty of apps to help students with the less academic parts of college life. 以及下文五個粗體字的小標(biāo)題可以知道，D選項(xiàng)最為恰當(dāng)。“給大學(xué)生的五個技術(shù)工具”
小題3:B Grade 2小標(biāo)題下：This app is a sophisticated tool for calculating grades.再根據(jù)此題的四個選項(xiàng)進(jìn)行比較可以知道B是正確答案。
小題4:B 根據(jù)題目中find a nearby supermarket到文章里去找信息源。在最后一段。小標(biāo)題為：Aroundme, 因此，選B。
小題5:A 根據(jù)第二段iOS apps are built for Apple's mobile platform and can run on the iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. 以及各個小標(biāo)題之下platform后的內(nèi)容可以判斷，iOS是適用于iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad的操作系統(tǒng)。
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