单选题
Chokwe Selassie is on a mission to help drivers avoid potholes (路面坑洼). The eighth-grader got his inspiration on a recent morning, when his mother was driving him to school. Their ear was damaged as it went over a huge pothole in the middle of the street in their hometown of Jackson, Mississippi. "I decided I was going to do something about the pothole problem in my city," said Chokwe. His solution: an app that warns drivers when there is a pothole ahead.
Chokwe developed the app with his friends. "When the app detects a pothole, it is highlighted in red," Chokwe says. "And if you get close to the pothole, your phone will warn you with a beep." Drivers can also use the app to report any potholes they encounter, and to look for other routes they can take to avoid roads that have them.
The app relies on current available information about the streets of Jackson. "It works by using the city"s 311 call system, so it uses: information already stored in a database," Chokwe says. Through the call system, citizens dial 311 to report non-emergency problems—which include potholes. As Chokwe and his friends worked on the app, they also went street by street throughout the city. They determined that focusing on the 10 busiest streets in Jackson would give them a large enough sample size to test it.
Although the app isn"t yet available for sale, Chokwe is already looking for ways to improve it. The app remains limited to 10 streets in Jackson, but he hopes to add more, so that it includes every street in the city. And then he wants to go even farther. "I want to keep working on the app until it"s nationwide," Chokwe says.
单选题
Chokwe Selassie got the idea to develop the app from ______.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] 根据文章第一段第二句“The eighth-grader got his inspiration...”可知,他的灵感来自于一天早上他妈妈开车送他上学时的真实经历,所以选A。
单选题
When you are close to a pothole, your phone will warn you with ______.
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解析] 根据文章第二段第三句“And if you get close to the...”(如果你靠近坑洼的时候,你的电话就会发出哔哔声以示警告)可知,选项C正确。
单选题
Drivers can also use Chokwe"s app to ______.
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解析] 从第二段最后一句“Drivers can also use the app...”(司机也可以通过这款应用软件报告他们会碰到的坑洼,并搜寻其他的路线以避开这些有坑洼的路)可知,选项C(选择没有坑洼的更安全路线)符合题意。
单选题
To develop the app, Chokwe and his friends ______.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解析] 根据文章第三段倒数第二句“As Chokwe and his friends worked on...”可知,Chokwe和他的朋友们在设计这款软件时,也在城市里的各条街道上穿梭。选项B中conduct field trips意为“进行实地考察”,与原文的描述相符。故选B。
单选题
We can learn from the last paragraph that Chokwe ______.