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The solid-waste disposal company Daily Disposal services tens of thousands of residences, businesses and construction sites in San Diego. In the past, drivers with residential routes received two printouts each morning: a 30-page document listing more than 1,000 customers they needed to visit that day, and a separate five- or six-page document listing customers with delinquent accounts. As drivers made stops, they had to compare the two lists to determine whether to pick up each customer’s containers. With more than 90 drivers in the field, Daily Disposal needed a more efficient way to route trucks and document trash pickup. So, the company invested in a custom mobile app called eMobile, Samsung Galaxy tablets with 10.1-inch screens and cellular service from Sprint. Rather than receiving stacks of paper each morning, drivers simply download the day’s route onto their tablets via the eMobile app. As they move along, the mounted tablets tell them exactly where to stop. When drivers arrive at customers’ homes, they push one of three buttons on the touchscreen: “done,” “not out” or “skip.” Daily Disposal’s entire fleet now has mounted tablets. All residential drivers are using the solution, and drivers who pick up from commercial and construction sites will begin using it soon. And the company is looking for other ways to automate operations. “What we’re doing may seem simple, but it’s huge for us,” says Todd Ottonello, vice president of the company. “This also helps with our efforts to go green. The solution completely changes an industry.”
Taylor Mallory Holland. Tablets bring waste management technology into the digital age. Internet:
The article primarily deals with how one waste management company is incorporating contemporary technology into their routine in order to improve the service they provide.
Based on text CB1A3-II, judge the following items.
I The expression “red tape” (l.2) means politically-motivated and inconsistent official procedures.
II The basic meaning conveyed by “to enhance” (l.2) and to leverage (l.10) can also be found in to better.
III To be entitled (l.9) is synonymous with to be eligible for.
IV The word “overall” (l.3) means in general terms in the text.
Decide which alternative below is correct.
A Free Press Needs You
By The Editorial Board
August 15, 2018
In 1787, the year the Constitution was adopted in the USA, Thomas Jefferson famously wrote to a friend, “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”
That's how he felt before he became president, anyway. Twenty years later, after enduring the oversight of the press from inside the White House, he was less sure of its value. “Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper,” he wrote. “Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.”
Jefferson's discomfort was, and remains, understandable. Reporting the news in an open society is an enterprise laced with conflict. His discomfort also illustrates the need for the right of free press he helped to preserve. As the founders believed from their own experience, a well-informed public is best equipped to root out corruption and, over the long haul, promotes liberty and justice. “Public discussion is a political duty,” the Supreme Court said in 1964. That discussion must be “uninhibited, robust, and wide-open” and “may well include vehement, caustic and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.”
(www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/15/opinion/editorials/free-press-local
-journalism-news-donald-trump.html?action=click&module=Trending&
pgtype=Article®ion=Footer&contentCollection=Trending. Adaptado.)
A Free Press Needs You
By The Editorial Board
August 15, 2018
In 1787, the year the Constitution was adopted in the USA, Thomas Jefferson famously wrote to a friend, “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”
That's how he felt before he became president, anyway. Twenty years later, after enduring the oversight of the press from inside the White House, he was less sure of its value. “Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper,” he wrote. “Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.”
Jefferson's discomfort was, and remains, understandable. Reporting the news in an open society is an enterprise laced with conflict. His discomfort also illustrates the need for the right of free press he helped to preserve. As the founders believed from their own experience, a well-informed public is best equipped to root out corruption and, over the long haul, promotes liberty and justice. “Public discussion is a political duty,” the Supreme Court said in 1964. That discussion must be “uninhibited, robust, and wide-open” and “may well include vehement, caustic and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.”
(www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/15/opinion/editorials/free-press-local
-journalism-news-donald-trump.html?action=click&module=Trending&
pgtype=Article®ion=Footer&contentCollection=Trending. Adaptado.)
A Free Press Needs You
By The Editorial Board
August 15, 2018
In 1787, the year the Constitution was adopted in the USA, Thomas Jefferson famously wrote to a friend, “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”
That's how he felt before he became president, anyway. Twenty years later, after enduring the oversight of the press from inside the White House, he was less sure of its value. “Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper,” he wrote. “Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.”
Jefferson's discomfort was, and remains, understandable. Reporting the news in an open society is an enterprise laced with conflict. His discomfort also illustrates the need for the right of free press he helped to preserve. As the founders believed from their own experience, a well-informed public is best equipped to root out corruption and, over the long haul, promotes liberty and justice. “Public discussion is a political duty,” the Supreme Court said in 1964. That discussion must be “uninhibited, robust, and wide-open” and “may well include vehement, caustic and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.”
(www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/15/opinion/editorials/free-press-local
-journalism-news-donald-trump.html?action=click&module=Trending&
pgtype=Article®ion=Footer&contentCollection=Trending. Adaptado.)
A Free Press Needs You
By The Editorial Board
August 15, 2018
In 1787, the year the Constitution was adopted in the USA, Thomas Jefferson famously wrote to a friend, “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”
That's how he felt before he became president, anyway. Twenty years later, after enduring the oversight of the press from inside the White House, he was less sure of its value. “Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper,” he wrote. “Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.”
Jefferson's discomfort was, and remains, understandable. Reporting the news in an open society is an enterprise laced with conflict. His discomfort also illustrates the need for the right of free press he helped to preserve. As the founders believed from their own experience, a well-informed public is best equipped to root out corruption and, over the long haul, promotes liberty and justice. “Public discussion is a political duty,” the Supreme Court said in 1964. That discussion must be “uninhibited, robust, and wide-open” and “may well include vehement, caustic and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.”
(www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/15/opinion/editorials/free-press-local
-journalism-news-donald-trump.html?action=click&module=Trending&
pgtype=Article®ion=Footer&contentCollection=Trending. Adaptado.)
Based on the text, judge the item below.
“them” (line 22) refers to “applications” (line 21).
Based on the text, judge the item below.
Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage realized that, besides calculation, the Analytical Engine could be used for other purposes.
Based on the text, judge the item below.
The word Nevertheless is a correct alternative for
“However” (line 10).
Based on the text, judge the item below.
Apart from its inventor, nobody ever used Babbage’s Analytical Engine.
Based on the text, judge the item below.
Which can substitute “who”, in “who first had the idea” (line 6).
Based on the text, judge the item below.
Lack of money was the main reason why the building of the Analytical Engine was not carried out.
Based on the text, judge the item below.
Nobody thought of a programmable computer before Charles Babbage.
Based on the text, judge the item below.
Ada Lovelace met Charles Babbage through Mary Somerville.
Based on the text, judge the item below.
The infinitive form of “taught” (line 2) is think.
Based on the text, judge the item below.
Mary Somerville was Ada Lovelace’s teacher.
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