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Move Wi-Fi Service Frank’s Fancy Lincoln has everything a road warrior could want: extravagant leather seats, extra legroom

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问题                         Move Wi-Fi Service
    Frank’s Fancy Lincoln has everything a road warrior could want: extravagant leather seats, extra legroom and a fashionable fold-down desk that can be positioned just so. There’s a bottle of spring water in the cup holder to my left and a pile of individually wrapped Life Savers under the armrest. A screen suspended from the ceiling is playing a DVD But here’s the real benefit of this ride: I can surf the Web on my laptop from the backseat of this automobile while Frank, the driver, takes me wherever I want to go.
    Carey International, which owns Frank’s limo, has been testing mobile wireless hot spots in half a dozen of its custom automobiles in four cities since the spring, and customers love it, according to CEO Devin Murphy. For now, the cost for the service is included in the standard fare; soon the company hopes to launch " Mobile Office", designed by In Motion Technology, across more of its fleet. First, however, it needs to figure out the business details. It costs $ 1,000 to $2,000 to equip each car, an investment predicated on an indefinite business model. But Murphy wants to be out in front with the technology. "We definitely think we’re ahead of the curve," he says proudly.
    He’s not the only one who sees mobile wi-fi as a way to drive customer satisfaction. Wi-fi services are popping up on planes, trains, buses and ferries as operators seek to meet the growing demand for anytime, anywhere Internet access and to gain a competitive edge. Analysts expect "Wi-Fi in motion"—a variation on the kind of hot spot that’s been sprouting up in airports, hotels, coffee shops and truck stops—to be widely available in just a few years
    For quite a while, airline passengers have been able to surf the Web via in-flight phones. But airlines embracing Wi-Fi aim to make Web surfing more practical. Lufthansa introduced a high-speed Wi-Fi Internet service called Fly-Net on flights between Los Angeles and Munich. Its Charlotte, N. C.-Munich and San Francisco-Munich routes will have it, and the airline wants its entire fleet equipped within two years Scandinavian. Singapore and at least half a dozen other airlines have announced plans to follow suit.
    Given the financial woes facing U.S. carriers, few have the resources right now to invest in Wi-Fi; most will probably wait for Verizon to launch an inflight Wi-Fi service that makes use of its existing Airfones network. Rail operators, meanwhile, are beginning to take a hard look at the wireless Web. In Northern California, Canada and Britain, train companies are testing or preparing to launch their own Wi-Fi services.
The phrase "follow suit" (Line 12,Para.4)denotes______.
选项 A、finding one’s own way of doing things
B、cooperating with others in doing things
C、helping someone else out of trouble
D、doing what someone else is doing
答案D
解析 语义理解题。第四段介绍航空公司的Wi-Fi服务。首先以汉莎航空公司为例进行简要介绍，最后指出：该公司希望在两年内将旗下的所有飞机都装备起来。该段末句提到：斯堪的纳维亚、新加坡以及至少另外六家航空公司都已宣布要照做。显然这些航空公司都将汉莎航空公司视为榜样，希望像它一样装备Wi-Fi移动网络，故[D]为答案。文中没有提到其他航空公司有其他不同于汉莎航空公司的举动，排除[A]；也没有上下文语境表明这几家公司准备联合，排除[B]；该段没有提到航空公司遇到困难，因此[C]没有依据，排除。
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