A mobile phone service which makes your handset (手機(jī)) scream when it's been stolen has been started, with its makers claiming it could put an end to mobile theft altogether.

　　The Remote XT system uses software to link customers' mobile phones directly to a secure remote server, which stores all their data from phone numbers to text messages and e-mails. If the owner's phone is lost or stolen? he can dial a 24-hour call centre and have it registered as stolen. The handset is then disabled, and cannot even be used if a new SIM card is put in. At the same time, the system sets off an alarm sounding like a highpitched (聲音尖銳的) scream, which can only be stopped by removing the battery.

　　Existing data is also wiped off the phone but, because the information has been stored centrally, it can be retrieved as soon as the victim gets a new phone, the system design-ers said.

　　“By making mobiles unusable to anyone but the rightful owner, the phones become worthless and we will see the market for sto-len handsets stopped once and for all, ”said Mark Whiteman, managing director of Re-mote XT. “Such phones cause disaster for the huge criminal industry that has profited from mobile theft for too long. ”

　　For the moment the system is aimed at business customers and comes with a fee of 9. 99 pounds per month, possibly available to the majority of average user within two years as mobile technology advances.

　　According to the latest UK government statistics, mobile phone theft has risen 190 per cent in recent years, with one third of all UK robberies now only involving mobile phones. It's estimated a mobile handset is stolen every 12 seconds in Britain costing UK consumers around 390 million pounds ($ 735 million) every year.

(1) The passage mainly focuses on________.

[　　]

A．a(chǎn) mobile phone security system

B．the advance in mobile technology

C．suggestions on mobile phone use

D．mobile phone theft in the UK

(2) Which of the following is NOT true about the Remote XT system?

[　　]

A．It uses software to disable customers' stolen phones.

B．It takes remote control of phones sto-len or lost.

C．Owners can get their phones back with the help of it.

D．Now only business customers benefit from it.

(3) The underlined word “retrieved” (in Par-agraph 3) probably means “________”.

[　　]

A．destroyed

B．restored

C．examined

D．protected

(4) According to the passage, phone theft in the UK can be best described as________.

[　　]

A．severe

B．illegal

C．civil

D．popular

答案：A;C;B;A
解析：

(1) 主旨大意題。全文主要介紹了“a mobile phone service”，而該服務(wù)的實質(zhì)是“the Remote XT system”，故A項正確。

(3) 猜測詞義題。從該句中“the information has been stored centrally”可知，原手機(jī)信息在“a 24-hour call centre”備份，因此新手機(jī)可以“恢復(fù)”原來手機(jī)的信息。

(4) 推理判斷題。最后一段主要用數(shù)字說明在英國手機(jī)盜竊現(xiàn)象較為嚴(yán)重，因此A項符合題意。


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