VOA慢速：手机被盗或丢失怎么办？
What to Do if Your Phone Is Stolen or Lost?
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Part I. QUESTIONS
Listen to the news and choose the best answer to each question you hear.
Q1. What is one of the basic steps suggested to protect your phone from theft?
A. Keep the phone unlocked for easy access.
B. Use a password or special scan to unlock the device.
C. Store all data locally without backups.
D. Share your phone’s location with friends.
Q2. What is a new feature available for iPhone users to make thefts less profitable?
A. Activation lock that requires a password to turn off.
B. An app that tracks the thief’s location.
C. Stolen Device Protection that needs a face or fingerprint scan.
D. A feature that disables the phone when stolen.
Q3. Why is it important to note your phone’s IMEI number?
A. It can help you recover your phone if it gets stolen.
B. It allows you to track your phone’s internet usage.
C. It connects your phone to your email account.
D. It increases your phone’s resale value.
Q4. Why should you contact the police instead of confronting a thief yourself?
A. The police can provide a replacement phone.
B. The police need to update their records.
C. The thief might return the phone voluntarily.
D. Confronting a thief can be dangerous.
Q5. What is the main idea of the recording?
A. Phones are easily replaced if lost or stolen.
B. There are various steps and technologies to protect and recover phones from theft.
C. Phone theft is decreasing due to new laws.
D. Only expensive phones are targeted by thieves.
Part II. TRANSCRIPT
What to Do if Your Phone Is Stolen or Lost?
Phones hold so much of our digital lives ― emails, social media and bank accounts, photos and more.
As a result, if our phones ever get stolen or lost, we can face major problems.
In some places, phone thefts have increased. Britain, for example, has some 200 phones stolen every day in “snatch thefts” ― when a person steals a phone in a public place, sometimes right out of an owner’s hand, and escapes quickly.
snatch v. 抢夺
The government has promised to take steps against the crime and is meeting with technology companies and device makers to come up with solutions.
Here are steps you can take before and after your phone goes missing.
Basic steps
There are things you can do to make it less painful if someone steals your phone. Because some of these features are more technical in nature, people often do not think of them.
(Q1) Lock down as much as you can. At a minimum, require a password or special scan to unlock the device.
You can also add similar requirements to important individual apps ― like your banking account, WhatsApp or Signal ― to protect your finances or messaging from thieves.
You will probably have lots of important photos saved on your camera roll.
It is a good idea to back the photos up, along with contacts, calendar and other files. Google and Apple offer cloud-based backup services, although the free versions have limited storage space. You can also back up your files to an external hard drive, memory card or a laptop.
Some police forces and phone companies advise turning off message previews. This prevents thieves trying to break into your accounts from seeing reset or login codes when the phone is locked.
To do this on an iPhone, for example, go to Notifications in your settings and choose Show Previews. You can also go down the app list to turn previews off for individual apps but leave them on for less risky ones like news or weather.
Notification n. 通知
Show Previews 显示预览
Turn on newer features
Recent iOS and Android updates include a number of new elements designed to make thefts less profitable.
Android n. 安卓（操作系统）
(Q2) IPhone users can turn on Stolen Device Protection, which makes it a lot harder for phone thieves to change key functions and settings. Many thieves will want to wipe the data off and reset so they can resell it, but with this feature on, they will need a face or fingerprint scan to do so. Apple also recently updated its “activation lock “ feature to make it harder for thieves to sell parts from stolen phones.
activation lock 激活锁
Android phones, meanwhile, can now use artificial intelligence (AI) to detect motion indicating someone took a device out of your hand and is racing away on foot or a bike. The program then locks the screen immediately. There is also a feature called Private Spaces that lets you hide sensitive files on your phone.
artificial intelligence 人工智能
Write down your device number
(Q3) Take note of your phone’s serial number, also known as an IMEI number. It can link you to the phone if it does eventually get recovered. Call it up by typing *(asterisk)#06# on your phone’s keypad. If you have already lost your phone you can also find it in other places like the box it came in.
asterisk n. 星号（*），星号标记
If the device is stolen
If you are unlucky enough to have your phone stolen, notify police. Call your insurance company if you have a policy that covers the device. Inform your phone company so they can freeze your number and issue a replacement SIM card or eSIM. Notify your bank so they can watch out for unusual activity.
Tracking your device
Try to find your phone with the find my device feature. For iPhones, go to iCloud.com/find from a web browser. Android users should go to www.google.com/android/find. Samsung also has its own service for Galaxy phones.
These services will show your phone’s current or last known location on a map. The service is also handy if you cannot find your phone somewhere in the house. Apple says even if a phone cannot connect to the internet or has been turned off, it can use Bluetooth to contact any nearby Apple devices by using the same network behind its AirTags tracking devices. Google says newer Pixel phones can be located “for several hours” after they have been turned off using similar technology.
Pixel phones 即Pixel手机，谷歌自有品牌手机
You can get the phone to play a sound, even if it is on silent. You can also put the phone in lost mode, which locks it and displays a message and contact details on the screen for anyone who finds it. Lost mode on iOS also suspends any Apple Pay cards and passes.
(Q4) If the device shows up in an unfamiliar location on the map, and you suspect it has been stolen, experts say it is better to contact police rather than trying to get it back yourself.
Cybersecurity company Norton says, “Confronting a thief yourself is not recommended.”
Final steps
If you cannot find your phone, there are some final steps to take.
Log yourself out of all your accounts that might be accessible on the phone. Then remove your phone from your list of trusted devices that you use to get multifactor authentication codes. But make sure you can get those codes somewhere else, such as email.
multifactor authentication codes 多重身份验证码
Then, as a final step, you can erase the phone remotely so that there is no chance of any data falling into the wrong hands. However, take note: Apple says that if the iPhone is offline, the remote erase will only happen the next time the phone comes back online. But if you find the phone before it gets erased, you can cancel the request.
Google warns that SD memory cards plugged into Android phones might not be remotely erased. And after the phone has been wiped, it will not show up with Find My Device.
SD memory card SD存储卡
Part III. KEY
Q1. B. 细节题。题目出处为：Lock down as much as you can. At a minimum, require a password or special scan to unlock the device. 意为：尽量启用所有可用的安全功能；最起码，应设置密码或特定手势来解锁设备。因此答案是B。
Q2. C. 细节题。题目出处为：IPhone users can turn on Stolen Device Protection, which makes it a lot harder for phone thieves to change key functions and settings. Many thieves will want to wipe the data off and reset so they can resell it, but with this feature on, they will need a face or fingerprint scan to do so. 意为：iPhone 用户可以开启“失窃设备保护”功能，这会让手机盗贼更难以清空手机，进行重置。因此答案是C。
Q3. A. 细节题。题目出处为：Take note of your phone’s serial number, also known as an IMEI number. It can link you to the phone if it does eventually get recovered. 意为：记下你的手机序列号，也叫IMEI号；如果手机最终被找回，这个号码可以帮你确认手机归属。因此答案是A。
Q4. D. 推理题。题目出处为：If the device shows up in an unfamiliar location on the map, and you suspect it has been stolen, experts say it is better to contact police rather than trying to get it back yourself. 意为：如果设备出现在在地图上的一个陌生位置，并且你怀疑它可能被盗，专家建议，与其亲自尝试取回，不如选择联系警方更为妥当。这表明与小偷对峙可能很危险。因此答案是D。
Q5. B. 主旨题。录音内容探讨了多种有助于防止手机被盗以及在被盗后协助找回的步骤和方法。因此答案是B。
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