Back those photos up
The images were striking. Homes on the East Coast were washed away by Superstorm 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 SkyDrive 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 SkyDrive. 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 Superstorm Sandy?
A．To tell the background of the scanning photos.
B．To attract the readers’ interest in the backups.
C．describe a severe natural disaster.
D．To win the readers’ sympathy.
小題2:What can we know from the passage? 
A．Scanning photos takes 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．Caronite.B．Dropbox. C．SkyDrive.D．Flash drive.
小題4:What’s the passage mainly about ?
A．tell real stories about storage services
B．introduce some of the storage services
C．describe the functions of storage services
D．a(chǎn)rgue about the advantage of storage services

小題1:B
小題2:B
小題3:A
小題4:B

試題分析：本文主要就是介紹了在計(jì)算機(jī)和網(wǎng)絡(luò)上保存文件的多個(gè)方法和具體的步驟，以及每一種保存方法的具體信息。
小題1:B 推理題。在文章一開(kāi)始提到了颶風(fēng)桑迪，是為了告訴我們照片是很容易就被毀壞的，需要我們把它們保存好，引起下面要討論的保存?zhèn)浞菡掌膬?nèi)容。故B正確。
小題2:B 細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章倒數(shù)第三段Caronite backs up 300 million files daily. Once you sign up, it starts to pick up everything you have on your hard drive.說(shuō)明Caronite的備份是需要使用你的硬件hardware的，故B正確。
小題3:A 細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第三段Caronite backs up 300 million files daily.Once you sign up, it starts to pick up everything you have on your hard drive.說(shuō)明你一旦注冊(cè)以后Caronite就自動(dòng)從你的硬件里保存文件了，故A正確。
小題4:B 主旨大意題。本文主要就是介紹了在計(jì)算機(jī)和網(wǎng)絡(luò)上保存文件的多個(gè)方法和具體的步驟，以及每一種保存方法的具體信息。故B正確。
點(diǎn)評(píng)：本文主要就是介紹了在計(jì)算機(jī)和網(wǎng)絡(luò)上保存文件的多個(gè)方法和具體的步驟，以及每一種保存方法的具體信息。考查科普類短文閱讀，此類文章的最大的障礙是詞匯以及考生對(duì)閱讀內(nèi)容的不熟悉，需要考生在閱讀的時(shí)候有足夠的耐心。要養(yǎng)成在上下文串聯(lián)中猜測(cè)詞義的能力，根據(jù)上下文中出現(xiàn)的同義詞，近義詞，反義詞，以及詞義的解釋來(lái)理解生詞。同時(shí)要抓住文章的中心，不要受其他信息的影響。要根據(jù)題目及選項(xiàng)以及文章的上下文串聯(lián)合理的判斷推理。
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