AT&T's new services have been declined by ______.A.IraqB.JapanC.Syria
AT&T's new services have been declined by ______.
A.Iraq
B.Japan
C.Syria
AT&T's new services have been declined by ______.
A.Iraq
B.Japan
C.Syria
Putting everything and everyone on the Net will open up new commercial opportunities For example, when you visit a new place, your mobile device, knowing your preferences will 【C5】______ suggest the restaurants that serve your favorite wines and foods, list the shows you might like to see, then provide you with maps for how to get there, says Joy, whose company is designing Jini, a 【C6】______ system to automatically link computing devices. The new services electronically link up buyers and sellers who 【C7】______ no prior contact and may want to do business with each other only once.
These 【C8】______ will take bandwidth and lots of it. Some of the sector's biggest companies are working on making the internet 1,000 times faster and more reliable. Internet service providers will charge accordingly, just as travelers pay different 【C9】______ for first or second class. The system is supposed to give consumers flexibility, allowing them to 【C10】______ bandwidth when they need it.
【C1】______
A.personal
B.personalized
C.person
D.personalizing
&8226;Look at the statements below and the information about cards on the opposite page.
&8226;Which card (A, B, C or D) does each statement 1-7 refer to?
&8226;For each statement 1-7, mark one letter (A, B, C or D) on your Answer Sheet.
&8226;You will need to use some of these letters more than once.
A
Visa Gold Card
A Visa Gold Card guarantees you'll be welcomed at more than 10.5 million establishments in 247 countries. It gives you access to more ATMs around the world than any other cards. It assures you of unsurpassed travel, legal and medical assistance, with just one phone call, and emergency cash if you lose your card. And it offers you Visa's unmatched range of special cardholder services, from reserved concert seats to the Visa Restaurant Club.
B
MasterCard Pocket Teller
It can now tell you how much money you have on your chip, as well as how much you spent in each of your last ten transactions and when. How? With this Utile gem of new technology, the MasterCard Pocket Teller, available for the very first time in the world right here in Plymouth. It's like having a mini Automatic Teller Machine in your pocket.
C
Smart Object
Smart Object has got all the benefits of object-oriented technology without the drawbacks. Without the time it takes to learn. Without the money it takes to train. Without the long lead times and high development costs. These and cue-cards define clear, repeatable paths to build and assemble highly reuseable application components. And its best-of-breed applications are integrated with Visual Basic on the PC, yet scaled to support hundreds of users on all manner of client, server and database platforms.
D
AT&T Global Corporate Calling Card
If you want to get somewhere fast, it pays to travel with the new AT&T Global Corporate Calling Card. It offers competitive international rates so that you can count up savings on every card call you make around the world. It increases productivity for your people who travel on business and offers comprehensive management reports that show you exactly who has spent what each month. And there's no enrollment fee whatsoever.
You will know how much money is left on your card.
M: I'm sorry.She is engaged just now.
Q: What's the manager doing at the moment?
(18)
A.She has something to handle.
B.She is free.
C.She has been away.
D.She'd like to talk.
Keeping the Net Secure
On September 11 traditional telephone providers did a heroic job of struggling to restore service. When the World Trade Center towers fell, they severely damaged a Verizon central office with 350,000 voice lines and 3.5 million data circuits carrying the financial information that is the lifeblood of Wall Street firms. Verizon employees and those of many other telecommunications carders worked night and day, alongside the firemen, the police, and volunteers, at their own recovery job. In about a week they had rerouted some two million data circuits, restored switches, and installed temporary power supplies. The other 1.5 million circuits originated in buildings that no longer exist.
In the days after the attack the number of voice calls in the five boroughs of New York City doubled, from the normal 115 million a day to more than 230 million. For the next six days Verizon waived charges for its pay phones in Manhattan. On a single day following the disaster residents placed some 22,000 local calls free of charge from regular sidewalk pay phones below Canal Street, and Williams Communications switched five million voice calls in the metropolitan area-three times the average daily volume. AT&T's long-distance volume jumped from a weekday average of about 300 million domestic voice calls to more than 431 million on September 11, the busiest weekday ever across AT&T's domestic voice network.
But despite the efforts to keep them in operation, under the extraordinary pressure of September 11 the traditional voice-telecommunications systems in the New York area and the Washington, D.C. area--both wire and wireless--were significantly overtaxed. In East Coast cities cell-phone networks could not keep up with demand. Many long-distance calls inbound to New York City were blocked, in part to reserve circuits for outgoing calls. On that day the Internet proved its value as an essential part of the modem communications system.
More than half of America now uses the Internet. Globally, users number more than 300 million. Virtually all large businesses use the public Internet or private versions of the same technology to conduct their most important activities. So it was not surprising--although it was staggering--to see that on September 11 more than 1.2 billion instant messages were sent by AOL users alone. Slipping past the congested voice networks onto the PC screens of friends and family around the globe were the ties that bind us in the modem world: "R U OK?" "ALRIGHT? “ “U THERE?"
As voice networks blocked incoming calls to New York in order to relieve congestion, some carders pushed their voice traffic over the Internet. ITXC, which specializes in Internet voice services, saw its domestic wholesale business double on September 11 as carriers searched for new channels of communication; Yahoo's PC to Phone calling service increased by 59 percent. The performance of these voice-over-IP services suggests that in only a handful of years most voice traffic is likely to be carded on the Internet.
Why did the Internet work so well in the face of huge volume? Because its "distributed" technology is inherently robust. "Normal" phone connections, whether by means of wired line networks or by wireless cellular networks, open a specific circuit, or channel, connecting the person who is called and the caller. Just as if a superhighway lane were opened for one car only, the circuit remains dedicated to the conversation even if no one is speaking at the moment. If too many circuits are requested at one time, the system blocks calls.
In contrast, Internet messages don't travel on designated circuits. Instead, the messages are coded in is and Os, and then disassembled into packets of data. The packets go out from the PC down the phone line and into the maze of interconnected fibers that envelops every metropolita
A.Y
B.N
C.NG
The small firms leading the trend are interesting for the way they do business rather than for the amount of business they do. But because their activities expose monopoly overpricing so dramatically, they could help to bring about changes that are vastly out of proportion to their size.
The American market for international calls is more open to competition than those of most other countries, so calls out of America are usually far cheaper than the calls into it. The discounters exploit this difference by routing calls from foreign subscribers to computerized switches in America, undercutting normal rates by a third or more.
One technique, known as ring-back, involves giving a customer in, say, Paris a free telephone number to a computerized switch in America. When the customer calls, the switch automatically calls him back and puts him through to his American destination. Since the call technically originates with the switch, France Telecoms monopoly on outgoing calls remains unbroken but the caller in Paris is charged American rates. A second technique, called third-country calling, involves routing international calls via America to take advantage of cheap American rates on the second leg of the journey. On intercontinental calls the saving is usually so great that it more than makes up for the extra distance traveled.
One of the best-known discounters, 2(1/2)years old International Discount Telecommunications (IDT), uses third-country calling to provides calls between countries whose own telephone companies are not on speaking terms, such as Syria and Israel , and Iraq and Kuwait. Today's small discounters may be short-lived.
But if the small discounters do go out of business, it will be because they have launched a trend. This year, American established international carriers have started touting for business from overseas customers themselves. In April American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) launched a third-country calling service of its own. Dubbed World Connect, the service lets customers use a personal identification number to call from 45 different countries of the world via switches in America. Customers pay call charges in dollars, along with their normal domestic bills. In June AT&T's biggest rival, MCI, launched a similar service, called World Reach. Both products supplement the firms long-establishes call-home services, which make it easier for traveling Americans to call home. Though AT&T and MCI both hotly deny selling international calls to foreigners explicitly, some foreign carriers certainly fear this. Neither AT&T nor MCI has been allowed to offer its new services in Japan, Australia, Spain, Italy, Brazil, Argentina or Mexico. The small discounters have run into similar problems.
?You will hear a talk given by, a spokesman of the U. S. International Communication Department. He talks about a number of privately owned telephone discounter attacking the cartel of national telephone monopolies that keeps the price of international calls high.
?For each question 23--30, mark one letter (A, B or C) for the correct answer.
?You will hear the recording twice.
The price of international calls into America is ______.
A.higher than that of the calls out of America
B.far lower than that of the calls out of America
C.is the same as that of the calls out of America as it is decided by the cartel
At Home is owned by Tele-Communications Inc., Cox Communications and several other investors. TCI is in the process of merging with AT&T Corp. in a $ 39 billion deal that is expected to be completed by spring. AT&T Corp. chief executive Michael Armstrong has stated he wants to use At Home as a conduit for delivering a wide range of communications services, including electronic commerce. Control over Excite, which has a search engine and links to several online shopping sites, would certainly enhance that goal. Excite, which has lagged behind other Web-site companies, such as Yahoo!, has been looking for a larger partner in the rapidly consolidating Internet portal market, especially in wake of the AOL-Netscape deal. Several other companies had been rumored to be interested in Excite, including Yahoo! Inc. and Microsoft Corp. Negotiations between Yahoo! and Excite broke off this weekend, according to published reports.
Excite, eager to extend its reach and market power, was attracted by an alliance with AT&T and TCI. Excite's shareholders are expected to own about 30 percent of the combined company, which would be known as At Home Networks. Excite chief executive George Bell would take a position on the new company's executire board, reporting to At Home chief executive Tom Jermoluk. At Home, which delivers high-speed Internet service over cable TV lines, has more than 330 000 customers. The deal would give it access to Excite's more than 20 million registered users and to the company's content-development. capabilities. Both companies are located in Redwood City, Calif. At Home, whose stock has risen nearly 300 percent over the past year, has the money to make a deal, Michael Harris, president of Kinetic Strategies Inc. told MSNBC." With At Home's existing stock valuation (of about $11.7 billion), it's been surprising they haven't done more deals. They've certainly got a huge war chest built up."
Neither company has yet made a profit. In the three months ended Sep. 30, Excite lost $6.8 million on revenue of $44 million, including acquisition and amortization expenses. In the same period, At Home lost $ 9.7 million.
Why does At Home want to buy Excite?
A.Because Tom Jermoluk wants to control his strongest competitor.
B.Because it Wants to expand its business through Excite's present resources.
C.Because both companies are based in Redwood city, California.
D.Because it has lost $9.7 million in the last three months.
A.city
B.rival
C.employer
D.opposition
Instructions
1. To make your payment online, click (点击) the“Pay Now” link under the“Account Overview (概览)”summary.
2. If your business has more than one registered account, first select the account you need from the“Account Number”menu, and then click the“Pay Now”link.
3. If you have never made an online payment before, you will be asked whether you want to make a payment by using a bank account or credit card. Select either “Bank Account” or“Credit Card” from the“Select Payment Method”menu.
The online payment system is available Monday through Saturday, from 7:00 AM to 1 2:00
AM (Midnight) Eastern Time.
1. An AT& T BusinessDirect account helps you _______________.
A. earn an interest from a bank account
B. make the first month’s payment only
C. pay your telephone bill automatically
D. enjoy all the available banking services
2. Tne payment with an AT& T BusinessDirect account can be made online with________.
A. a passport
B. a credit card
C. a driving license
D. a traveller’s check
3. If you have several registered accounts for payment, the first link that you should click is__________.
A. “Select Payment Method”menu
B. “Account Overview” summary
C. the“Account Number”menu
D. the “Pay Now” link
4. When making the first-time online payment, you will be asked to______________.
A. register your online account number
B. open several registered accounts
C. select the payment method first
D. apply for a new credit card
5. The passage is mainly about ___________________.
A. how to pay phone bills by AT& T BusinessDirect
B. how to open an AT& T BusinessDirect account
C. how to make use of online bank services
D. how to start a small online business
A、new and creative
B、useful
C、practical
D、common
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