Today, when a fire breaks out, you can be sure a citizen with a cell-phone camera has pos

Today, when a fire breaks out, you can be sure a citizen with a cell-phone camera has posted it to Facebookor Twitter, or sent it to the mediaBut up to now, that citizen has not been able to easily send images and details of what is happening to the people who need it most: police, firefighters and building-security people who must respond, and whose ability to help is often measured in minutes, if not seconds.

That's about to changeA one-year old company called Elerts has developed a system that's designed to mobile and social technologies to speed the flow of information between citizens and emergency workers in time of dangerThe system involves free mobile applications—iPhone and iPad app(应用软件) is available now—that eyewitnesses can use to report incidents and get public-safety warningsAnd Elerts is offering a management console (控制台)for security firms and universities to receive the reports and distribute warnings and instructions, like a map with the best evacuation route (疏散路线).

The service is the brainchild of Chris Russo, deputy fire chief in the coastal town of Hull, MassAs mobile communications sped up, he grew increasingly frustrated by his inability to communicate effectively with colleagues and the public, particularly with people who are at the scene and might be able to provide help

"Remembering situations when communications failed puts a pit in my stomach," MrRusso saysLast summer, he was in a search at a beach for a missing boy, who went into a bathhouse but didn't come outFirst responders feared an abduction (绑架) on the beach or shark attackThe child's mother, who didn't speak English well, was so sad that she couldn't remember what color shorts he had onMrRusso had no photo of the child, and no ability to turn to beachgoers

Two long hours later, the boy was spotted by a low-flying helicopter lost and alone on the beach crying—a lucky break"If 5 percent of beachgoers had an app to receive a message and send in sightings of a lost boy, the happy ending might have come much sooner," MrRusso said

32What is the passage mainly about?

       AAn app for reporting emergency            BA moving story of Chris Russo

       CA cell-phone instant service               DAn app for firm management

33What does the underlined part in Paragraph 4 most probably mean?

       AArouses my interest                        BCauses a stomachache

       CMakes me feel frustrated                    DLeaves a hole in my stomach

34We can infer from the passage that emergency workers ____

       Ahave to carry out rescue work in minutes

       Bneed images and detailed information badly

       Cmust send images and details immediately.

       Dhave to turn to Facebook and Twitter for details

35The author takes Chris Russo's experience as an example to ____

       Aadvertise his creativity in communication

       Binform readers how Russo got the idea of the service

       Cmake the passage more interesting to read

       Dshow readers the working principle of the new system

答案

ACBB

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