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lly put their home address in. So again, the_GPS_is_kind_of_“garbage_in_garbage_out”.Mr Brown says this is a mon human error. But, he says, what makes the problem worse has to do with some of the shortings, or failures, of GPS equipment.Barry Brown:“One problem with many GPS units is they have a very small screen and they just tell you the next turn. Because they just give you the next turn, sometimes that means that it is not really giving you the overview that you would need to know that it39。s going to the wrong place.”Barry Brown formerly served as a professor with the University of California, San Diego. While there, he worked on a project with Eric Laurier from the University of Edinburgh. The two men studied the effects of GPS devices on driving by placing cameras in people39。s cars. They wrote a paper based on their research. It is called “The Normal, Natural Troubles of Driving with GPS.”Barry Brown: “One of the things that struck us, perhaps the most important thing was that you have to know what you39。re doing when you use a GPS. There are these new skills that people have developed. There are these new petencies that you need to have to be able to use a GPS because they sometimes go wrong.”Barry Brown says this goes against a mon belief that GPS systems are for passive drivers who lack navigational (導航) skills.“The Normal, Natural Troubles of Driving with GPS” lists several areas where GPS systems can cause confusion for drivers. These include maps that are outdated, incorrect or difficult to understand. They also include timing issues related to when GPS mands are given.Barry Brown says to make GPS systems better we need a better understanding of how drivers, passengers and GPS systems work together.5.What is the best title for this passage?A.Is GPS system reliable to use? B.What is the use of GPS?C.How to make the most of GPS? D.Blame! GPS or Passengers?6.What is the implication of the underlined part?A.GPS is just a garbage device.B.GPS will not correct human errors.C.GPS adjusts your wrong destination.D.GPS is just as smart as human beings.7.Which is NOT mentioned as a GPS shorting in the passage?A.Small screen. B.Timing of mands.C.Outdated maps. D.Dear cameras GPS uses.8.According to the passage, people monly believe that ________.A.you have to know where to go when using GPSB.you need to have new petencies to use GPS wellC.GPS is proper for drivers with little sense of directionD.GPS is fit for people having good understanding of mapsB(2014大綱卷)A ArrivinginSydneyonhisownfromIndia, my husband, Rashid, stayedina hotel for a short time while looking for a house for me and our children. During the first week of his stay, he went out one day to do some shopping. He came back in the late afternoon to discover that his suitcase was gone. He was extremely worried as the suitcase had all his important papers, including his passport(護照). He reported the case to the police and then sat there, lost and lonely in strange city, thinking of the terrible troubles of getting all the paperwork organized again from a distant country while trying to settle down in a new one. Late in the evening, the phone rang. It was a stranger. He was trying to pronounce my husband’s name and was asking him a lot of questions. Then he said they had found a pile of papers in their trash can(垃圾桶)that had been left out on the footpath. My husband rushed to their home to find a kind family holding all his papers and documents(文件). Their young daughter had gone to the trash can and found a pile of unfamiliar papers. Her parents had carefully sorted them out, although they had found mainly foreign addresses on most of the documents. At last they had seen a halfwritten letter in the pile in which my husband had given his new telephone number to a friend.Th