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Cellphones Aloft:The Inevitable Is Closer The day may finally be coming when you will be allowed to make calls on your own c

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问题                     Cellphones Aloft:The Inevitable Is Closer
    The day may finally be coming when you will be allowed to make calls on your own cellphone from an airliner. Trouble is, so will the passengers sitting on either side of you, and in front and in back of you, as well.
    Federal regulators plan next week to begin considering rules that would end the official ban on cellphone use on commercial flights. Technical challenges and safety questions remain. But if the ban is lifted, one of the last protections of relative social silence would disappear, forcing strangers to work out the rough manners of involuntary eavesdropping in a confined space.
    "For some people, the idea of being able to pick up their phone is going to be liberating; for some it’s going to drive them crazy," said Addison Schonland, a travel industry consultant at the Innovation Analysis Group in La Jolla, California. "Can you imagine 200 people having a conversation at once? There’s going to be a big market for noise-canceling headphones."
    The always-on-the-road business travelers may become the worst offenders, predicted Roger Entner, a telecommunications analyst with the Yankee Group and a frequent flier. "Businessmen will now compete with kids for the title of most annoying in the airplane," Mr. Entner said.
    It may be years before cellphones become widely used in the skies Conventional cellphones, besides raising concerns about interfering with cockpit communications, typically do not work at altitudes above 10,000 feet or so.
    But some airlines have already begun their own tests of technology meant to make cellphone use feasible at 35,000 feet. They know that the seatback phones they now oiler, costing $ 1.99 a minute or more, have never really caught on.
    The airlines also know that, while illegal, surreptitious cellphone use at lower altitudes is already common. Airline attendants have caught some passengers using cellphones in airplane lavatories, and others have been spotted huddled in their seats, whispering into their cupped hands.
    A major federal effort to revisit the rules will begin next Wednesday at a Federal Communications Commission meeting, where the agency is expected to approve two measures. One, an order that is expected to be adopted, would try to introduce more price competition among phone companies to offer telephone and high-speed Internet services from the seatback and end-of-aisle phones that are now on many planes. The second measure will begin the regulatory process of considering whether there are technical solutions to some of the current obstacles to passengers’ using their own mobile phones on planes.
From the passage, it can be inferred that will be happy if the ban is lifted______.
选项 A、federal government
B、frequent travelers
C、airlines
D、earphone manufacturers
答案D
解析 本题考查事实细节。题干要求考生回答对于政府取消这一禁令，谁会感到非常高兴。文章中没有提到作为这一命令的制定者的政府是否会有收益，因此[A]选项不正确。禁令解除可能会给[B]选项中提及的经常旅行的人带来一些益处，但是这一点在文中没有提及。第三段最后一句话There’s going to be a big market for noise-canceling headphones(隔绝噪声的耳机将会有巨大的市场)明显指出，从这一禁令解除中获益的应该是[D]选项中提到的耳机生产厂商。
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