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The magic to personal digital pen

Check out the personal digital pen by Logitech: It’s a magic pen that can store everything you write and transfer it to your computer. And you don’t have to lug a hand-held device along with you for it to work.

Logitech’s technology works like this: the pen writes normally, using normal ballpoint pen ink.But while you are writing, a tiny camera inside the pen is also taking 100 snapshots per second of what you are doing, mapping your writing via a patchwork of minute dots printed on the paper. All this information – the movement of your pen on the paper, basically – is then stored digitally inside the pen, whether you are writing notes or drawing complex diagrams. You can store up to 40 pages worth of doodles in the pen’s memory. As far you are concerned, you are just using a normal pen.

It is only when you drop the pen into its PC-connected cradle （支架）that the fun begins. Special software on your PC will figure out what you have done, and begin to download any documents you have written since the last time it was there. Depending on whether you have ticked（打上记号）certain boxes on the special notepad（记事本）, it can also tell whether the document is destined to be an e-mail, a “to do”task, or a diagram to be inserted into a word-processing document. Once the documents are downloaded you can view them, print them out or convert them to other formals.

The io personal digital pen is a neat and simply solution to the problem of storing, sharing and retrieving handwritten notes, as well as for handling diagrams, pictures and other non-text doodling. You don’t have to carry a laptop along with you. all you have to do is just whip out the pen and the special paper and you are off.

It is a great product because it does not force you to work differently –walking around with a screen strapped to your arm, or carrying with you extra bits and pieces. The pen is light and works like a normal pen if you need it to, while the special notepads look and feel like notepads. The only strange looks will be from people who are curious about why your are writing with a cigar.

The io personal digital pen also has potential elsewhere. Fedex, for example, is introducing a version of the pen so that customers can fill out forms by hand– instead of punching letter into cumbersome devices. Once that data is digital more or less anything can be done with it – transferring it wirelessly to a central computer, for example, or via a hand-phone. Doctors could transmit their prescriptions direct to pharmacies, reducing fraud; policemen could send their reports back to the station, reducing paper work.

1. Paragraph 2___.

2. Paragraph 3___.

3. Paragraph 5___.

4. Paragraph 6___.

A.  a friendly and convenient device

B.  ways to download the stored information

C.  examples of other potential applications of the io pen

D.  customers’ passion for the io pen

E.  Fedex the first user of the io pen

F   working principle of the io personal digital pen

5. There is no need to learn how to use the io personal digital pen because ___.

6. If you want to download what you have done with the magic pen, ___.

7. The magic pen is particularly convenient when you work away from home or office because ___.

8. No matter what you write or draw, ____.

A. you don’t have to carry your laptop along.

B. the information will be shown digitally on the pen.

C. Fedex has special software to store your information

D. it works like an ordinary pen.

E. you simply place the pen into its computer-connected cradle.

F. the movement of your pen is recorded digitally inside the pen.

参考答案：

The Magic Io Personal Digital Pen

1. F。分析：首先关注段首句和段未句的大意和用词：段首句说“Logitech的技术是这样起作用的:该笔书与别的笔没有什么差异，使用的是通常的圆珠笔墨水”， 段未句说“对你而言，你在使用的只是一只普通的笔”。而段落中间的第2句在内容上是在讲述io personal digital pen是如何工作的，因此判断F是答案。

2. B。分析：段落中反复出现download（2次），而且所在结构的含义分别是“开始下载”和“一旦这些文件被下载了”，因此判断其中间的内容很可能与如何下载有关系，因此判断B是答案。

3. A. 分析：段落中没有出现明显的段落主题词，所以注意段首句和段未句的大意和用词：段首句说“（它）io pen是一件伟大的产品因为..”（是作者对该产品的评价），与该句内容特点相呼应的只有A。而段落中出现的结构“The pen is light and works like a normal pen”也是与convenient呼应， 因此判断A是答案。

4．C。分析：借助段落中的句子Fedex, for example, is introducing a version of the pen so that customers can fill out forms by hand排除E：Fedex不是用户；而段落段首句（io笔在其他地方也有它潜在的用途）和段未句（医生能够...， 警察能够...）的内容直接揭示答案是C（有关io笔的其他潜在用途的例子）。

5. D. 分析：因为文章中多处在谈到io personal digital pen很普通，所以判断D是答案。

6  E。分析：句子与下载有关，因此注意涉及到下载的句子，这样发现答案相关句：It is only when you drop the pen into its PC-connected cradle （支架）that the fun begins. Special software on your PC will figure out what you have done, and begin to download any documents you have written since the last time it was there.判断E是答案。

7. A。分析：根据句子中出现的修饰词convenient的提示，我们看第5段（第5段的标题是a friendly and convenient device）借助被选项的提示确认答案是A。

It is a great product because it does not force you to work differently –walking around with a screen strapped to your arm, or carrying with you extra bits and pieces（附件）.

而其实该段前一段已经很明确的点明了答案：You don’t have to carry a laptop along with you.

bits and pieces n.零件

8. F。分析：借助题干的核心内容—what you write or draw，这样找到答案相关句： All this information – the movement of your pen on the paper, basically – is then stored digitally inside the pen, whether you are writing notes or drawing complex diagrams. 判断F是答案。