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Excerpt 1: Sales of e-readers surged during the Christmas holiday season, according to a Pew Research Center report, which showed that the number of adults in the United States who owned tablets nearly doubled from mid-December to early January. Excerpt 2: Apple, based in Cupertino, California, controls 73% of the market, while Samsung Electronic Co. , Sony Corp. and Toshiba Corp. are among companies making constant improvements on tablets without bringing services that cut into the market share, Sarah Rotman Epps, an analyst at Forrester, said in the report. Excerpt 3: Under Square's year-long pilot program, an iPad would be installed in the space where Taxi TVs currently sit, and the driver would have an iPhone to process credit-card payments. The technology would allow drivers to accept a passenger's card at any point during the ride, then enter the amount later. The system charges drivers less in credit card transaction fees than the current rates. Excerpt 4: When Apple introduced the iPad tablet computer in 2010, it was doing what it likes to do best: creating a new category to dominate, as it had done with the iPod and iPhone. By the end of the year, the company had sold nearly 15 million iPads, generating about $9. 5 billion in revenue. Just two years later, the chief executive of Apple, Timothy D. Cook, has a prediction: the day will come when tablet devices like the Apple iPad outsell traditional personal computers. Excerpt 5: Apple has made its first attempt to quantify how many American jobs can be credited to the sale of its iPads and other products, a group that includes the Apple engineers who design the devices and the drivers who deliver them—even the people who build the trucks that get them there. On Friday, the company published the results of a study it commissioned saying that it had "created or supported" 514,000 American jobs. The study is an effort to show that Apple's benefit to the American job market goes far beyond the 47, 000 people it directly employs here. Excerpt 6: People who read e-books on tablets like the iPad are realizing that while a book on a black-and-white Kindle is straightforward and immersive, a tablet offers a menu of distractions that can fragment the reading experience, or stop it in its tracks. E-mail lurks tantalizingly within reach. Looking up a tricky word or unknown fact in the book is easily accomplished through a quick Google search. And if a book starts to drag, giving up on it to stream a movie over Netflix or scroll through your Twitter feed is only a few taps away.
单选题6.What is said about Apple Inc. with its tablet devices like iPads?
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】细节题。根据答案选项中的关键词，逐一回原文中定位并比对。根据A选项的关键词Christmas season回原文定位，它在原文中的出处是Excerpt 1中的第一句话。A选项It doubled its sale of e-readers during the Christmas season(在圣诞节这段时间里苹果的电子阅读机的数量增长了一倍)与原文the number of adults in the United States who owned tablets nearly doubled from mid-December to early January(从12月中旬到1月初美国拥有平板电脑的成人人数将近增长了一倍)意思不符。根据B选项的关键词73％回原文定位，它在原文中的出处是Excerpt 2中的第一句话。B选项It controls 73％of the tablet device market．(它占据了73％的平板电脑市场)与Excerpt 2中的第一句话的主句意思完全一致，因此是正确答案。而C选项It charges customers less in credit card transaction fees(它收取消费者的信用卡的交易费较少)与原文Excerpt 3的最后一句The system charges drivers less in credit card transaction fees than the current rates(这一系统收取司机信用卡的交易费要比现有利率低)语义不符。D选项It has long been selling its traditional personal computers(苹果销售传统的个人电脑已经很长时间了)在原文中未曾涉及。
单选题7.Which of the following choices involve the creation of tablet devices and its possible replacement of Taxi TVs?
单选题8.Tablet devices can miraculously perform many functions but they also cause the problem of______.
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】细节题。本题做题的关键是正确理解题目，并抓住题目关键词。本题的意思是：平板电脑出色地完成了多项任务，但是也引起了怎样的问题?题目关键词cause the problem，原文中只有Excerpt 6第一段最后一句提到了平板电脑存在的问题。根据原文中的表述a tablet offers a menu of distractions that can fragment the reading experience，or stop it in its tracks(平板电脑提供了可能让人分心的菜单内容，它们会割裂阅读经历或者中断阅读)可以发现正确答案是C选项。而A选项its rivals succeeding in cutting into the market share(它的竞争对手正在侵吞它的市场份额)、B选项failing to process credit-card payments with an iPhone(没能通过iPhone进行信用卡付费)和D选项misleading the trucks that get them to the tablet market(误导了将它们运送到市场的卡车)均是原文未涉及的内容，与原文不符。
单选题9.It can be inferred from one of the excerpts that a successful company should take the social responsibility of______.
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】推断题。首先应该正确理解题目，本题的意思是：一个成功的公司应该承担怎样的社会责任?题目关键词是the social responsibility，这一点仅出现在Excerpt 5中。通过概括Excerpt 5两段的内容，可以判断D选项Creating more jobs for people to be involved in its business operation(在它的经营中为人们创造更多的工作机会)是正确答案。而A选项filing reports to the agencies like Pew Research Center(像Pew Research Center这样的机构撰写报告)、B选项installing its products in the space where Taxi TVs sit(把它的产品安装在计程车电视的位置上)以及C选项predicting the trends in product design and manufacturing(预计产品设计和制造的趋势)都不能算是社会责任，不符合题目要求。