单选题 In this part you are asked to choose the best word for each blank in the
passage. Write your answers on the answer sheet.
After yuppies and dinkies, a new
creature from adland stalks the block. The NYLON, an acronym linking New York
and London, is a refinement of those more familiar categories such as jet-
setters and cosmocrats (cosmopolitan aristocrats...do keep up). Marketing
professionals have noted that{{U}} 1 {{/U}}the demise of Concorde, a
new class of high-earner increasingly{{U}} 2 {{/U}}his or her time
shuttling{{U}} 3 {{/U}}the twin capitals of globalization. And NYLONS
prefer their home comforts{{U}} 4 {{/U}}tap in both cities. Despite
the impressive{{U}} 5 {{/U}}of air miles, they are not adventurous
people. As{{U}} 6 {{/U}}from Tom Wolfe's Masters of the
Universe of the 1980s, NYLONS have done more than well {{U}}7
{{/U}}the long boom and new economy of the last ten years. They are DJs, chefs,
games designers, Internet entrepreneurs, fashionistas, publishers and even
a(n){{U}} 8 {{/U}}band of journalists and writers. They are
self-consciously trendy and some are even able to{{U}} 9 {{/U}}houses
in both cities. Others will put up{{U}} 10 {{/U}}a house in one, and a
view{{U}} 11 {{/U}}a room in the{{U}} 12 {{/U}}. of course,
their horizons do{{U}} 13 {{/U}}beyond just New York and London. For
many, Los Angeles is an important shopping mall. More
significantly for adland, NYLONS provide some useful marketing savings.
Campaigns no longer have to differ very much in the two cities,{{U}} 14
{{/U}} NYLONS bring them ever closer together. The restaurants are the same,
with Nobu now in London and Conran in New York. Many plays{{U}} 15
{{/U}}in both cities at the same time, and DJs shuttle between the two,{{U}}
16 {{/U}}the same garage to the same people in{{U}} 17
{{/U}}clubs. Time Out and Wallpaper are the magazines of{{U}} 18 {{/U}}.
All this is fine for NYLONS. But not so much {{U}} 19 {{/U}}for
everybody else watching Notting Hill turn{{U}} 20 {{/U}}a pale
imitation of Greenwich Village.