每一台手机都是地震仪?
作者: 涂丽平安卓手机可收到地震预警,你手机的地震预警功能开了吗?
主题语境:地震 篇幅:310词 建议用时:6分钟
1 Android phones can be used to sense earthquakes around the world and may one daybe able to provide global warnings, with the first mass alert system coming into use on August11, 2020 in California, a search engine companyannounced.
2 The company, which helped develop Android,worked with California and the UnitedStates Geological Survey to build the quakealerts into all phones that run the common mobileoperating system. Android users who haveenabled location services and are near a quake of magnitude 4.5 or greater will receive afull screen earthquake warning telling them to seek cover. The screen will also provide estimatesof the quake's magnitude and distance from the user. Depending on their distancefrom a quake, people could get several seconds or perhaps a minute of warning.
3 That application, developed by the University of California, Berkeley and launchedin 2019, has been downloaded by only about 1 million of California's 40 million residents.By contrast, many millions of people own Android phones.
4“ This announcement means that California's world class earthquake early warningsystem will be a standard function on every Android phone—giving millions of people preciousseconds to seek cover when the big one hits,” Gov Gavin Newsom said.
5 Also, the company announced that Android phones would begin detecting earthquakesfrom around the world through their motion sensing accelerometers.“ Your Androidphone can be a mini'seismometer (微型地震仪), joining millions of other Android phonesthere to form the world's largest earthquake detection network,” according to the company.More than 2 billion devices run the Android operating system.“ Hundreds of millions ofpeople live in earthquake prone areas. But many countries lack the resources to build detectionand alert systems,” the company said. The information would be used at first to providefast and accurate information on the search engine. But the company said it could beginsending out earthquake alerts in 2021.
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1. What can Android phones do about earthquake sensing?
A. Enable users to seek cover when the big one hits.
B. Provide information on the history of all earthquakes.
C. Break the world's largest earthquake detection network.
D. Provide global warnings and detect earthquakes around the world.
2. What can we learn about the application from the text?
A. It will be of great help.
B. It hardly sends out earthquake alerts.
C. Millions of people have downloaded it.
D. It was developed by a university in Los Angeles.
3. What will globalize the earthquake detection network?
A. New technology developed by the company.
B. The large number of Android phone users.
C. The newly developed application.
D. Motion sensing accelerometers.
4. What is the author's purpose of writing the text?
A. To promote Android phones.
B. To share a new study.
C. To introduce a new app of Android phones.
D. To make a search engine company known to the world.
LanguageStudy
Ⅰ. 日积月累
sense v. 感觉到;检测出
magnitude n. 地震级数
download v. 下载
device n. 设备;装置
search engine 搜索引擎
come into use 开始使用
seek cover 寻找掩体
depend on 依赖于;取决于
by contrast 相比之下
Ⅱ. 语法填空
Natural disasters have a significant impact 1. _____people's lives and property.Every year, many countries suffer from destruction 2. _____ (cause) by natural disasters.Earthquakes can lead to building collapses, and landslides can bury entire villages. Inaddition, storms and floods brought by typhoons can often 3. _____ (claim) lives.
In responding 4. _____natural disasters, emergency response is crucial. When adisaster 5. _____ (occur), rescue teams must take immediate 6. _____ (act). Theymust rescue trapped individuals, provide emergency medical assistance, and ensure thebasic needs of the affected areas 7. _____ (meet). Furthermore, governments and nongovernmentalorganizations need to coordinate their efforts 8. _____ (ensure) resourcesare allocated effectively.
Additionally, by 9._____(strengthen) monitoring and warning systems, peoplecan be alerted before a disaster strikes. In earthquake areas, earthquake resistant buildingdesigns are essential. People can also enhance their own disaster response capabilitiesthrough establishing emergency evacuation plans, maintaining emergency supplies,10. _____receiving relevant training.
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Ⅰ. 主题词汇
earthquake 地震
tsunami 海啸
hurricane 飓风;台风
tornado 龙卷风
flood 洪水
drought 干旱
wildfire 野火
avalanche 雪崩
volcano 火山
landslide 山体滑坡
blizzard 暴风雪
cyclone 气旋;龙卷风
heatwave 热浪