Why buy a new car when you can improve the one you have with the latest technology? Here are two new methods that will not only make life behind wheel more comfortable but may also end up saving you money.

WI-FI on Wheels
It’s not enough that children complain about having nothing to watch on television. These days, they even complain about having nothing to watch in the car. Fortunately, for every unsatisfied youth, there is a new technological solution: Wi-Fi Internet access for the back seat of your vehicle.
In the United States, Chrysler is the first to offer such a system, which turns any Chrysler or Dodge into a Wi-Fi hotspot. Called UConnect, the $499 dealer-installed option is a high-speed cell-like Internet connection with a wireless router that sits in your car’s trunk. Monthly service costs $29 for Internet access, which is available to any device that has Wi-Fi and is within 100 feet of your car.
With UConnect, passengers can check emails messages on a laptop, send instant messages to friends or watch YouTube videos online. It allows passengers to search for movie listings on a smart phone or connect a Sony PSP video game player to the Web. It also offers the ability to freely upload photos from a Wi-Fi-equipped digital camera to an online sharing service like Flickr.
For critics who claim that putting Wi-Fi Internet access in a car feeds the danger of driver distraction, parents may well disagree: What’s more distracting, the temptation to check email or a lot of children talking to you from the back seat?
Watch Your Back
Blind spots behind cars and SUV’s make backing up dangerous as well as potentially deadly for children. Nationally, the group Kids and Cars estimates that two children a week are killed by cars backing up. The Transportation Department is establishing visibility standards for future vehicles, but there’s no need to wait.
A back-view back system can be an expensive option in a new car. In the 2008 Subaru Tribeca, for example, the back-view camera option is available only in connection with the inner navigation system, at a price of $2,400. And professionally equipped systems can cost $400 or more. However, there are now inexpensive back-view packages you can help yourself, such as the $130 Audiovox ACA250 Wireless Vehicle Rear Observation System. It includes a camera that increases on a back license-plate holder and grasps onto a vehicle’s backup light. It can send a back-view image to a small L.C.D. Monitor that can be carried into electronic equipment and increased on the dashboard(儀表板).
Audiovox claims the camera housing is not afraid of dust. In some areas where radio waves are plentiful, the image can be affected by occasional interference, but the picture, with its wide 110-degree camera point, is good enough to see things or children behind you.
 
【小題1】What is the best title of the passage?
A．DIY methods for your car.
B．How to save money in your life?
C．The way of putting a back-view system.
D．The importance of putting internet access in your car.
【小題2】What’s the parents’ attitude to the safety concern of car Internet access?
A．They agree with the critics’ opinion.
B．They consider it a great danger for driving.
C．They think that talking with children is more dangerous.
D．They believe it unnecessary to have car Internet access.
【小題3】What’s the potential danger for children?
A．Electronic equipment. B．Backing-up car.
C．Earphones behind the wheel.D．Highway engine failure.
【小題4】How can the back-view package see the back of the car?
A．With a cell phone.
B．With an inner navigation system.
C．With a dashboard.
D．With a camera onto the side of backup light.


【小題1】A
【小題2】C
【小題3】B
【小題4】D

解析試題分析：文章介紹了兩個(gè)自己改裝汽車的辦法，一種是在汽車上安裝網(wǎng)絡(luò)連接，可以讓乘客更舒服的出行，一個(gè)是在后視鏡上安裝照相機(jī)使得后面的人更安全。因?yàn)槭亲约鹤龅模员容^節(jié)約經(jīng)濟(jì)。
【小題1】主旨題：從第一段的句子：Why buy a new car when you can improve the one you have with the latest technology? Here are two new methods that will not only make life behind wheel more comfortable but may also end up saving you money.可知這篇文章是教大家怎么改裝汽車的。選A
【小題2】細(xì)節(jié)題：從文章的句子：For critics who claim that putting Wi-Fi Internet access in a car feeds the danger of driver distraction, parents may well disagree:可知父母認(rèn)為在汽車?yán)锩姘惭b網(wǎng)絡(luò)連接，會(huì)使得孩子們談話的時(shí)候有危險(xiǎn)。選C
【小題3】細(xì)節(jié)題：從文章的句子：Blind spots behind cars and SUV’s make backing up dangerous as well as potentially deadly for children可知汽車的后座對(duì)孩子是潛在的危險(xiǎn)。選B
【小題4】細(xì)節(jié)題：從文章的句子：It includes a camera that increases on a back license-plate holder and grasps onto a vehicle’s backup light 可知在后視鏡上安裝一個(gè)照相機(jī)，可以讓后面的人看見汽車后面的情況。選D
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