Mobile office is the mutual product of economic, scientific, and social progress. Mobile office has become a solution that provides users with convenient, prompt, safe, reliable, and reasonably priced communications and office faculty anywhere anytime via the support of mobile interconnection platform(MIP) and its applications systems. Using mobile office and WAP technology, people can do their work anywhere anytime, can send and receive data via terminals such as mobile phone, palm computer, and PDA, and can surf the Internet. Integrating Internet and mobile communications network, and providing powerful applications support capacity for wireless interconnection, mobile interconnection platform is an important network support technology to accomplish mobile office.

When you leave your office to attend meetings or travel on business, what would happen to your business routine? Of course, faxes and e-mails would be still sent to your fax machine or e-mail box, but you cannot read them and make prompt reaction timely. When your clients need you to make some urgent modifications on your work and you are neither in the office nor carrying relevant documents, what can you do? Maybe you have to say “sorry” to the clients. But, your business will be affected, the clients will be unhappy and disappointed because of your delay, and you will lose a lot of business opportunities.

In fact, very frequently, you need to check, reply, distribute, display, modify, or read some materials when you are not in your office. You must get out of this dilemma. The best solution to normally handle your business anywhere anytime and not to disappoint your clients is to let your office “move” with you. With the development of communications technology, network application, and wireless interconnection, mobile office has become simpler and smaller, and even can be realized via one mobile phone with data communications function. Thus, mobile office has already been put into your pocket, and office mobility has been realized.

Mobile office has provided people with convenient, casual working environment, but at the same time it still has some unsatisfactory aspects such as mismatching equipment interface and inadequate battery. Nevertheless, we believe that with technical progress, people can certainly overcome all kinds of difficulties. Mobile office will make your career unimpeded, and will realize the dream of completely free communication.

1. The mobile office and WAP technology enable people to deal with their work without time and space limitation by means of terminals like _____.

2. What is the problem if one leaves his office to attend meetings or take a business trip?

3. According to the passage, what is the best solution not to disappoint your clients by timely handling your business anywhere anytime?

4. Office mobility has been realized by way of one mobile phone _____.

5. According to the author, though mobile office has brought people great convenience, it still has some defects such as _____.

文章精要：

文章描述了移动办公室的一系列好处，如：方便、处理及时等。在文章的最后一段，作者也提出了移动办公室一些有待解决的问题，如电池电力不足等。

答案解析：

1. mobile phone, palm computer, and PDA

细节题。文章第一段提到...can send and receive data via terminals such as mobile phone, palm computer, and PDA，即人们可以通过手机、掌上电脑以及个人数字助理等终端设备收发数据。PDA是Personal Digital Assistant的缩写，即个人数字助理。

2. He/She cannot read faxes, e-mails and make prompt reaction timely.

细节题。文章第二段开始部分就提出问题：当你离开办公室，忙于参加会议或出差在外时，你的日常工作业务会怎样呢？当然，传真和电子邮件依然会到达你的传真机和电子信箱，但是你却不能及时地看到它们并迅速作出回应，由此可找出答案。

3. Let your office “move” with you.

细节题。文章第三段提到The best solution...to let your office “move” with you，即能够随时随地及时处理工作事务、让客户满意的最好办法就是把办公室“带在身边”。

4. with data communications function

细节题。文章第三段提到mobile office has become simpler and smaller, and even can be realized via one mobile phone with data communications function，即移动办公室变得越来越简便和小巧，人们甚至可以通过具有数据通信功能的手机来实现移动办公。

5. mismatching equipment interface and inadequate battery

细节题。文章最后一段指出...but at the same time it still has some unsatisfactory aspects such as mismatching equipment interface and inadequate battery，也就是说虽然移动办公给人们带来了极大便利，但同时依然存在令人不满意的地方，例如设备接口不匹配、电池电力不足等。