单选题
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The 5 questions or unfinished statements are numbered 41 to
45.
Most Americans have at least one credit
card. They give their owners automatic credit in stores, restaurants, and
hotels, at home, across the country, and even abroad. And they also make many
banking services available. For many of us the "cashless society" is already
here. While computers offer these conveniences to consumers,
they have many advantages for sellers too. Electronic cash registers can do much
more than simply ring up sales. They can keep a wide range of records, including
who sold what, when, and to whom. This information allows businessmen to keep
track of their list of goods by showing which items are being sold and how fast
they are moving. Decisions to reorder or return goods to suppliers can then be
made. At the same time these computers record which hours are
busiest and which employees are the most efficient, allowing personnel and
staffing assignments to be made accordingly. And they also identify preferred
customers for promotional campaigns. Computers are relied on by manufacturers
for similar reasons. Computer-aided marketing reports can help to decide which
products to emphasize now, which to develop for the future, and which to drop.
Computers keep track of goods in stock, of raw materials on hand, and even of
the production process itself. Numerous other commercial
enterprises, from theaters to magazine publishers, from gas and electric
utilities to milk processors, bring better and more efficient services to
consumers through the use of computers.
单选题
According to the passage, the credit card enables its owner to ______ .
单选题
The phrase "ring up sales" (Line 2, Para. 2) most probably means" ______ .
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】语义辨析题。题目询问第二段第二行ring up sales的意思是什么。根据该短语前的can do much more than和它随后的一句，可以发现ring up sales是电子收款机的一个基本功能，因此可以推断出选项B(把销售额记入电子收款机)为正确答案。ring up意为“把款项记入，登录”。
[避错指南] 选项A(预定货物)，C(致电销售经理)和D(记录库存货物)都不是电子收款机基本的功能，且上下文也没有涉及。因此予以排除。
单选题
From the passage, electronic cash registers are not able to keep record of ______ .
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】细节推理题。题目询问根据文章，电子收款机不能记录什么。本题答案可以从第二段中的“...who sold what，when，and to whom.”得知其中不包括何时退货的记录，该段末句也说明退货给供应商是商家在了解电子收款机的记录之后要做的决定，而不是收款机本身的记录。因此选项D为正确答案。
[避错指南] 选项A(何时货物被销售)、B(销售产品的具体销售员)和C(何种商品被销售)都是涵盖在“...who sold what，when，and to whom”中，因此可排除。