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  3. Excerpt 1 : In a now familiar global ritual, Apple fans jammed shops across the globe to pick up the tech juggernaut’s (盲目崇拜

Excerpt 1 : In a now familiar global ritual, Apple fans jammed shops across the globe to pick up the tech juggernaut’s (盲目崇拜

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问题    Excerpt 1 :
   In a now familiar global ritual, Apple fans jammed shops across the globe to pick up the tech juggernaut’s (盲目崇拜的) latest iPhone 5. Eager buyers formed long lines Friday at Apple Inc. stores in Asia, Europe and North America to be the first to get their hands on the latest version of the smartphone.
   The handset has become a hot seller despite a new map application that early users have deemed inferior to Google Maps, the software it replaces. Apple received two million orders in the first 24 hours of announcing its release date, more than twice the number for the iPhone 4 s in the same period when that phone launched a year ago.
   Excerpt 2:
   Some fans went to extremes to be among the first buyers by arriving at Apple’s flagship stores day ahead of the release of latest iPhone 5.
   In downtown Sydney, Todd Foot, 24, showed up three days early to nab the coveted first spot. He spent about 18 hours a day in a folding chair, catching a few hours’ sleep each night in a tent on the sidewalk.
   Excerpt 3:
   In Paris, the phone launch was accompanied by a workers’ protest—a couple of dozen former and current Apple employees demonstrated peacefully to demand better work benefits. Some criticized what they called Apple’s transformation from an offbeat company into a multinational powerhouse.
   But the protesters—urged by a small labor union to demonstrate at Apple stores around France—were far outnumbered by lines of would-be buyers on the sidewalk outside the store near the city’s gilded opera house.
   Excerpt 4:
   Not everyone lining up at the various Apple stores was an enthusiast, though. In Hong Kong, university student Kevin Wong, waiting to buy a black 16 gigabyte model for 5,588 Hong Kong dollars ($720) , said he was getting one "for the cash. " He planned to immediately resell it to one of the numerous grey market retailers catering to mainland Chinese buyers. China is one of Apple’s fastest growing markets but a release date for the iPhone 5 there has not yet been set.
   Excerpt 5:
   In New York, several hundred people lined up outside Apple’s 5th Avenue store. Jimmy Peralta, a 30 year-old business management student, waited three hours before getting the chance to buy his new gadget. Was it worth the wait?
   " Definitely," he said, noting that the new phone’s larger screen and lighter weight compelled him to upgrade from the iPhone 4. " It’s just such a smart phone it does all the thinking for you, you can’t get any easier than that. "
   Excerpt 6:
   In a sign of the intense demand, police in Osaka, Japan, were investigating the theft of nearly 200 iPhone 5s, including 116 from one shop alone. In London, police sought help finding a man wanted in connection with the theft of 252 iPhone 5 s from a shop in Wimbledon early Friday morning.
   Excerpt 7:
   In London, some shoppers had camped out for a week in a queue that snaked around the block. In Hong Kong, the first customers were greeted by staff cheering, clapping, chanting " iPhone 5! iPhone 5!" and high-fiving them as they were escorted through the front door.
Which excerpt deals with the negative side of the popularity of iPhone 5 ?
选项 A、Excerpt 2.
B、Excerpt 3.
C、Excerpt 5.
D、Excerpt 6.
答案D
解析     推断题。首先，要读懂题目，本题问的是哪个摘录中涉及了iPhone 5的热销的负面影响；题目关键词是negative side(负面)。其次，可以套用概括推断题的做题公式，通过概括Excerpt 6中的具体例子来判断这部分涉及了iPhone 5的负面影响。Excerpt 6中提及的日本大阪和英国伦敦都出现了iPhone 5盗窃案。Excerpt 6中的关键词是theft(盗窃)，据此可以判断本题的正确答案是C。
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