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  3. After yuppies and dinkies, a new creature from adland stalks the block. The NYLON, an acronym linking New York and London, is a

After yuppies and dinkies, a new creature from adland stalks the block. The NYLON, an acronym linking New York and London, is a

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问题     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 (1)_____ the demise of Concorde, a new class of high-earner increasingly (2)_____ his or her time shuttling (3)_____ the twin capitals of globalisation And NYLONS prefer their home comforts (4)_____ tap in both cities. Despite the impressive (5)_____ of air miles, they are not adventurous people.
    As (6)_____ from Tom Wolfe’s Masters of the Universe of the 1980s. NYLONS have done more than well (7)_____ the long boom and new economy of the last ten years. They are DJs. chefs, games designers. Internet entrepreneurs, fashionistas, publishers and even a (8)_____ band of journalists and writers. They are self-consciously trendy and some are even able to (9)_____ houses in both cities. Others will put up. (10)_____ a house in one, and a view (11)_____ a room m the (12)_____. Of course, their horizons do (13)_____ 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, (14)_____ NYLONS bring them ever closer together. The restaurants are the same, with Nobu now in London and Conran in New York. Many plays (15)_____ in both cities at the same time, and DJs shuttle between the two. (16)_____ the same garage to the same people in (17)_____ clubs. Time Out and Wallpaper are the magazines of (18)_____. All this is fine for NYLONS. But not so much (19)_____ for everybody else watching Notting Hill turn (20)_____ a pale imitation of Greenwich Village.

选项 A、at
B、in
C、on
D、above
答案C
解析 NYLON们希望在两个城市里他们的家随时都很舒服。本题测试点为固定搭配。On tap是副词短语，意为"可随时使用"。
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