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It has been necessary to refer repeatedly to the .effects of the two world wars in promoting all kind of innovation. It should be (1) also that technological innovations have (2) the character of war itself by the (3) of new mechanical and chemical device. One weapon developed during World War Ⅱ (4) a special mention. The (5) of rocket propulsions was well known earlier, and its possibilities as a (6) of achieving speeds sufficient to escape from the Earth’s gravitational pull had been (7) by the Russian and the American scientists. The latter built experimental liquid-fuelled rockets in 1926. (8) , a group of German and Romanian pioneers was working (9) the same lines and in the 1930s, it was this team that developed a rocket (10) of delivering a warhead hundreds of miles away. Reaching a height of over 100 miles, the V-2 rocket (11) the beginning of the Space Age, and members of its design team were (12) in both the Soviet and United States space programs after the war.
Technology had a tremendous social (13) in the period 1900 - 1945. The automobile and electric power, (14) , radically changed both the scale and the quality of 20th-century life, (15) a process of rapid urbanization and a virtual revolution (16) living through mass production of household goods and (17)
The rapid development of the airplane, the cinema, and radio made the world seem suddenly smaller and more (18) . The development of many products of the chemical industry further transformed the life of most people. In the years (19) 1945 the constructive and creative opportunities of modern technology could be (20) , although the process has not been without its problems.
A:transformed B:imitated C:innovated D:simulated
It has been necessary to refer repeatedly to the .effects of the two world wars in promoting all kind of innovation. It should be (1) also that technological innovations have (2) the character of war itself by the (3) of new mechanical and chemical device. One weapon developed during World War Ⅱ (4) a special mention. The (5) of rocket propulsions was well known earlier, and its possibilities as a (6) of achieving speeds sufficient to escape from the Earth’s gravitational pull had been (7) by the Russian and the American scientists. The latter built experimental liquid-fuelled rockets in 1926. (8) , a group of German and Romanian pioneers was working (9) the same lines and in the 1930s, it was this team that developed a rocket (10) of delivering a warhead hundreds of miles away. Reaching a height of over 100 miles, the V-2 rocket (11) the beginning of the Space Age, and members of its design team were (12) in both the Soviet and United States space programs after the war.
Technology had a tremendous social (13) in the period 1900 - 1945. The automobile and electric power, (14) , radically changed both the scale and the quality of 20th-century life, (15) a process of rapid urbanization and a virtual revolution (16) living through mass production of household goods and (17)
The rapid development of the airplane, the cinema, and radio made the world seem suddenly smaller and more (18) . The development of many products of the chemical industry further transformed the life of most people. In the years (19) 1945 the constructive and creative opportunities of modern technology could be (20) , although the process has not been without its problems.
A:transformed B:imitated C:innovated D:simulated
Data security used to be all about spending big bucks on firewalls to defend data at the network perimeter and on antivirus software to protect individual computers. Internet-based computing, or cloud computing, has changed all that, at the same time expanding exponentially the chances for data thieves and hackers.
The cloud creates other opportunities too. a handful of security vendors now deliver security as a service--a one-two punch of hardware and software that monitors and manages an enterprise’s data security and bills customers only for the computing power they use. "For years, security was about big companies pushing technology to their customers," says Qualys CEO and founder Philippe Courtot. "Now it’s about the customers pulling precisely what they need and providing them with those resources on demand. "
Qualys, a privately held company in Redwood Shores, Calif. , was among the first to embrace the service-oriented model, in 1999. Today four different modules of QualysGuard, its flagship offering, are used by more than 3500 organizations in 85 countries. The company performs more than 200 million security audits per year.
Courtot knows something about opportunity. The French entrepreneur arrived in Silicon Valley in 1987 and has built a number of companies into big-time players, including Signio, an electronic-payment start-up that was eventually sold to VeriSign in a combined deal for more than $1 billion. As CEO, he rebuilt Verity and transformed cc:Mail, a once unknown firm of 12 people, into a dominant e-mail platform before Lotus acquired it in 1991. "Throughout my career, I’ve been able to recognize that for a technology to succeed, it must have a purpose," he says. "Technology itself has no value. It’s what you do with it that counts. "
Under the old paradigm, according to Courtot, enterprises overspent for stand-alone security devices that became unruly and difficult to operate over the long term He says Qualys attacks the flaws in this strategy by streamlining security and tackling most of the service delivery through the cloud. "We control the infrastructure, software updates, quality assurance and just about everything in between," he says. The firm unveiled QualysGuard in 2000. After an infusion of $ 25 million from the venture firm Trident Capital and another $ 25 million from Gourtot, Qualys tweaked the service to focus mostly on vulnerability management.
Much of the company’s current revenue-sales, topped $ 50 million last year--is being driving by a set of standards established by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCISSC). "The PCI standard has been a major driver of business for all of them, especially Qualys," says Avivah Litan, a vice president and analyst at market-research firm Gartner. "When everyone has to comply, there’s a lot of work to go around. /
What’s Courtot’s contribution to cc:Mail
A:He transformed co.. Mail into a dominant e-mail platform. B:He tackled most of the service delivery through the cloud. C:He pushed technology to their customers. D:He invested a lot of money to ensure customers’ security.
The Southdale shopping centre in Minnesota has an atrium, a food court, fountains and acres of parking. Its shops include a Dairy Queen, a Victoria’s Secret and a purveyor of comic T-shirts. It may not seem like a landmark, as important to architectural history as the Louvre or New York’s Woolworth Building. But it is. "oh, my god!" chimes a group of teenage girls, on learning that they are standing in the world’s first true shopping mall. "That is the coolest thing anybody has said to us all day. "
In the past half century Southdale and its many imitators have transformed shopping habits, urban economies and teenage speech. America now has some 1,100 enclosed shopping malls, according to the International Council of Shopping Centres. Clones have appeared from Chennai to Martinique. Yet the mall’s story is far from triumphal. Invented by a European socialist who hated cars and came to deride his own creation, it has a murky future. While malls continue to multiply outside America, they are gradually dying in the country that pioneered them.
Southdale’s creator arrived in America as a refugee from Nazi-occupied Vienna. Victor Gruen was a Jewish bohemian who began to design shops for fellow immigrants in New York after failing in cabaret theatre. His work was admired partly for its uncluttered, modernist look, which seemed revolutionary in 1930s America. But Gruen’s secret was the way he used arcades and eye-level display cases to lure customers into stores almost against their will. As a critic complained, his shops were like mousetraps. A few years later the same would be said of his shopping malls.
By the 1940s department stores were already moving to the suburbs. Some had begun to build adjacent strips of shops, which they filled with boutiques in an attempt to re-create urban shopping districts. In 1947 a shopping centre opened in Los Angeles featuring two department stores, a cluster of small shops and a large car park. It was, in effect, an outdoor shopping mall. Fine for balmy southern California, perhaps, but not for Minnesota’s harsh climate. Commissioned to build a shopping centre at Southdale in 1956, Gruen threw a roof over the structure and installed an air-conditioning system to keep the temperature at 75°F (24℃)—which a contemporary press release called "Eternal Spring". The mall was born.
Gruen got an extraordinary number of things right first time. He built a sloping road around the perimeter of the mall, so that half of the shoppers entered on the ground floor and half on the first floor-something that became a standard feature of malls. Southdale’s balconies were low, so that shoppers could see the shops on the floor above or below them. The car park had animal signs to help shoppers remember the way back to their vehicles. It was as though Orville and Wilbur Wright had not just discovered powered flight but had built a plane with tray tables and a duty-free service.
Which of the following is not the impact that shopping malls exert on daily life in US
A:People’s shopping habits have been largely transformed. B:Urban economy has been boosted and thus operated on large scale. C:A new pop culture has been fostered by shopping malls. D:Shopping malls completely replaced traditional groceries and alike.
| It has been necessary to refer
repeatedly to the .effects of the two world wars in promoting all kind of
innovation. It should be (1) also that technological
innovations have (2) the character of war itself by the
(3) of new mechanical and chemical device. One weapon developed
during World War Ⅱ (4) a special mention. The (5)
of rocket propulsions was well known earlier, and its possibilities as
a (6) of achieving speeds sufficient to escape from the
Earth’s gravitational pull had been (7) by the Russian and
the American scientists. The latter built experimental liquid-fuelled rockets in
1926. (8) , a group of German and Romanian pioneers was
working (9) the same lines and in the 1930s, it was this
team that developed a rocket (10) of delivering a warhead
hundreds of miles away. Reaching a height of over 100 miles, the V-2 rocket
(11) the beginning of the Space Age, and members of its design
team were (12) in both the Soviet and United States space
programs after the war. Technology had a tremendous social (13) in the period 1900 - 1945. The automobile and electric power, (14) , radically changed both the scale and the quality of 20th-century life, (15) a process of rapid urbanization and a virtual revolution (16) living through mass production of household goods and (17) The rapid development of the airplane, the cinema, and radio made the world seem suddenly smaller and more (18) . The development of many products of the chemical industry further transformed the life of most people. In the years (19) 1945 the constructive and creative opportunities of modern technology could be (20) , although the process has not been without its problems. |
A:transformed B:imitated C:innovated D:simulated
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| The Southdale shopping centre in
Minnesota has an atrium, a food court, fountains and acres of parking. Its shops
include a Dairy Queen, a Victoria’s Secret and a purveyor of comic T-shirts. It
may not seem like a landmark, as important to architectural history as the
Louvre or New York’s Woolworth Building. But it is. "oh, my god!" chimes a group
of teenage girls, on learning that they are standing in the world’s first true
shopping mall. "That is the coolest thing anybody has said to us all day. "
In the past half century Southdale and its many imitators have transformed shopping habits, urban economies and teenage speech. America now has some 1,100 enclosed shopping malls, according to the International Council of Shopping Centres. Clones have appeared from Chennai to Martinique. Yet the mall’s story is far from triumphal. Invented by a European socialist who hated cars and came to deride his own creation, it has a murky future. While malls continue to multiply outside America, they are gradually dying in the country that pioneered them. Southdale’s creator arrived in America as a refugee from Nazi-occupied Vienna. Victor Gruen was a Jewish bohemian who began to design shops for fellow immigrants in New York after failing in cabaret theatre. His work was admired partly for its uncluttered, modernist look, which seemed revolutionary in 1930s America. But Gruen’s secret was the way he used arcades and eye-level display cases to lure customers into stores almost against their will. As a critic complained, his shops were like mousetraps. A few years later the same would be said of his shopping malls. By the 1940s department stores were already moving to the suburbs. Some had begun to build adjacent strips of shops, which they filled with boutiques in an attempt to re-create urban shopping districts. In 1947 a shopping centre opened in Los Angeles featuring two department stores, a cluster of small shops and a large car park. It was, in effect, an outdoor shopping mall. Fine for balmy southern California, perhaps, but not for Minnesota’s harsh climate. Commissioned to build a shopping centre at Southdale in 1956, Gruen threw a roof over the structure and installed an air-conditioning system to keep the temperature at 75°F (24℃)—which a contemporary press release called "Eternal Spring". The mall was born. Gruen got an extraordinary number of things right first time. He built a sloping road around the perimeter of the mall, so that half of the shoppers entered on the ground floor and half on the first floor-something that became a standard feature of malls. Southdale’s balconies were low, so that shoppers could see the shops on the floor above or below them. The car park had animal signs to help shoppers remember the way back to their vehicles. It was as though Orville and Wilbur Wright had not just discovered powered flight but had built a plane with tray tables and a duty-free service. |
A:People’s shopping habits have been largely transformed. B:Urban economy has been boosted and thus operated on large scale. C:A new pop culture has been fostered by shopping malls. D:Shopping malls completely replaced traditional groceries and alike.
Data security used to be all about spending big bucks on firewalls to defend data at the network perimeter and on antivirus software to protect individual computers. Internet-based computing, or cloud computing, has changed all that, at the same time expanding exponentially the chances for data thieves and hackers.
The cloud creates other opportunities too. a handful of security vendors now deliver security as a service--a one-two punch of hardware and software that monitors and manages an enterprise’s data security and bills customers only for the computing power they use. "For years, security was about big companies pushing technology to their customers," says Qualys CEO and founder Philippe Courtot. "Now it’s about the customers pulling precisely what they need and providing them with those resources on demand. "
Qualys, a privately held company in Redwood Shores, Calif. , was among the first to embrace the service-oriented model, in 1999. Today four different modules of QualysGuard, its flagship offering, are used by more than 3500 organizations in 85 countries. The company performs more than 200 million security audits per year.
Courtot knows something about opportunity. The French entrepreneur arrived in Silicon Valley in 1987 and has built a number of companies into big-time players, including Signio, an electronic-payment start-up that was eventually sold to VeriSign in a combined deal for more than $1 billion. As CEO, he rebuilt Verity and transformed cc:Mail, a once unknown firm of 12 people, into a dominant e-mail platform before Lotus acquired it in 1991. "Throughout my career, I’ve been able to recognize that for a technology to succeed, it must have a purpose," he says. "Technology itself has no value. It’s what you do with it that counts. "
Under the old paradigm, according to Courtot, enterprises overspent for stand-alone security devices that became unruly and difficult to operate over the long term He says Qualys attacks the flaws in this strategy by streamlining security and tackling most of the service delivery through the cloud. "We control the infrastructure, software updates, quality assurance and just about everything in between," he says. The firm unveiled QualysGuard in 2000. After an infusion of $ 25 million from the venture firm Trident Capital and another $ 25 million from Gourtot, Qualys tweaked the service to focus mostly on vulnerability management.
Much of the company’s current revenue-sales, topped $ 50 million last year--is being driving by a set of standards established by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCISSC). "The PCI standard has been a major driver of business for all of them, especially Qualys," says Avivah Litan, a vice president and analyst at market-research firm Gartner. "When everyone has to comply, there’s a lot of work to go around.
A:He transformed co.. Mail into a dominant e-mail platform B:He tackled most of the service delivery through the cloud C:He pushed technology to their customers D:He invested a lot of money to ensure customers’ security
His imagination transformed shadows into a monster.（ ）
A:a beast B:a ghost C:a giant D:an angel
His imagination transformed shadows into a monster.
A:a beast B:a ghost C:a giant D:an angel
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