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英语- 阅读理解(二) (总分 100,考试时间 90 分钟) Reading Comprehension Passage 1 Motorola Inc. , the worlds second-largest mobile phone maker, will begin selling all of the technology needed to build a basic mobile phone to outside manufacturers, in a key change of strategy. The inventor of the cell phone, which has been troubled by **pounded by a recent industry slump in sales, is trying to become a neutral provider of mobile technology to rivals, with an eye toward fostering a much larger market than it could create itself. The Chicago area-**pany, considered to have the widest range of technologies needed to build a phone, said it planned to make available chips, a design layout for **puter board, software, development tools and testing tools. Motorola has previously supplied mobile phone manufacturers with a couple of its chips, but this is the first time **pany will offer its entire line of chips as well as a detailed blueprint. Mobile phones contain a variety of chips **ponents to control power, sound and amplification. Analysts said they liked the new strategy but were cautious about whether Motorolas mobile **petitors would want to buy the technology from a rival. **pany, long known for its top-notch (等级) engineering culture, is hoping to profit from its mobile phone technology now that the basic technology to build a mobile phone has largely become a commodity. Motorola said it will begin offering the technology based on the next-generation GPRS (Global Packet Radio Service) standard because most mobile phone makers already have technology in place for current digital phones. GPRS offers faster access to data through always on network connections, and customers are charged only for the information they retrieve, rather than the length of download. Burge