高译教育-上海外国语大学考研翻译硕士英语真题样题2014

上海外国语大学2014年研究生入学考试

翻译硕士英语样题

Read the following passage and answer the questions below.

Android wars are raging as rivals challenge Google’s dominance

The phone in your pocket is probably an Android device, and if you live in a western country, it is almost certainly running the Google version of Android and thus is bristling with Google’s services: Gmail, YouTube, Docs and more.

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The raw figures for Android’s market share make it look as though Google _____the smartphone world: of the 301.3m smartphones shipped in the second quarter of this year, 84.7 per cent were Android devices, up from 79.6 per cent in 2013, according to analysts IDC. But those _____hide a more complex story about how difficult it is to _____an ecosystem and bring customers into it.

The next biggest player on the _____OS scene is Apple, which in September made a bold bid to draw users further into its clutches with the launch of a wearable device, the Apple Watch, and, more importantly, its Apple Pay system.

Apple’s iOS _____been _____market share, according to IDC: in the second quarter of this year, it _____for 11.7 per cent of mobile device shipments, down from 13 per cent in the same quarter last year. Apple’s early-mover advantage has been eclipsed by the roaring success of _____.

Google maintains and develops the “official” _____of Android, but the operating system itself is open-source, which _____anyone can fiddle with it, change it, add to it and take bits away, as _____and Nokia, for example, have done with their operating systems have done with their operating systems for, respectively, the Kindle Fire and the Nokia X range.

Google leads the Android Open Handset Alliance, an association of device-makers such as Sony, LG, Samsung and Lenovo, mobile operators such as T-Mobile and Vodafone as well as chipmakers Arm, Qualcomm and Intel, and software companies, _____eBay and, of course, Google.

In return for membership of the OHA, members can create devices that Google will license its services _____. It is important to note that while Android itself is _____ and free to use, Google’s services are not. Members of the alliance also pledge not to “fork” Android – in other words, create their own _____that exclude Google services. This is all great for Google, as it means its data-collecting apparatus, with its access to your email, searches, location data and so on, is in the hands of millions of people to whom “relevant” adverts can be directed.

There is, however, a big part of the Android ecosystem that is nothing to do with Google. This is most significant in China, where Google and its services are persona non grata. But there are also trouble spots on the radar outside China that should worry Google.