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Corey Gottlieb was having a lousy day. The CEO of New York City’s Targeted Media Partners was in San Francisco last month to ins

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问题     Corey Gottlieb was having a lousy day. The CEO of New York City’s Targeted Media Partners was in San Francisco last month to install 200 flat-panel TV screens—worth about $3,000 each— into the local Luxor cab fleet. But in tests, Gottlieb discovered that the metal mounts that support the screens were knocking customers on the knee as they climbed into the taxis. So he had to redesign the system, delaying the project at least a week. It was a slight setback for a venture aimed at delivering news, restaurant info and video ads at riders, but ultimately it didn’t deflate Gottlieb’s optimism. "The beauty of this is we can reach people when they’re out of their homes, money’s in their pockets and stores are still open."
    Not to mention the fact that the passengers are also captive. You can turn off the TV; you can’t very well get out of a moving cab. Ventures like Gottlieb’s are making some accepted notions about advertising in the digital age seem pretty naive. Considering how the Web lets consumers customize news, entertainment and communications, some prognosticators have suggested that new technologies would give them control over intrusive commercials. Thanks to TiVo and the Internet, we were finally going to be masters of our living rooms, able to zip past the ads and watch only what we wanted, whenever we wanted.
    Perhaps it’s no surprise, but the advertising industry is striking back, pushing its message into environments where there’s no such thing as the fast-forward button: elevators, cabs, bars, fitness clubs and fast-food restaurants. A billboard-only business backwater for decades, the industry known as outdoor advertising is now blossoming; its conferences are jampacked and revenues were up 6 percent last year, according to the Outdoor Advertising Association of America. "It’s the last mass medium," says OAAA president Nancy Fletcher. "With the changes taking place in the media landscape, outdoor[advertising]is just about the only way advertisers can predict and deliver a mega audience."
    There are examples of this growth everywhere. Gottlieb’s company and a few rivals have recently struck agreements to put TV screens in cabs in Boston, Chicago and Las Vegas, along with San Francisco. Then there are elevators, once a setting suitable only for staring at the floor in awkward silence. A division of newspaper giant Gannett whose name tells you how it views elevator riders— Captivate Networks—has put TV screens in more than 500 elevators in the last few years, mostly in the East. But they’re now furiously moving westward. So, soon you’ll be able to stare up at ads—in awkward silence.
The second paragraph suggests that______.
选项 A、passengers can have control over intrusive adverts
B、passengers can customize the TV
C、passengers can watch what they want, when they want
D、passengers cannot get rid of intrusive commercials
答案D
解析 属细节推断题。第一段暗示了广告影响人们消费。第二段第一句接着指出：不用说“囚禁”在车里的乘客了……在行进的出租车里，你无法避开(广告)。所以答案选D。原文说，多亏TiVo和Internet，在家里我们能随时选择看我们想看的节目。这样A、C项中对passengers的描述都明显不对。B与原文不符。
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