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The Californian coastline north and south of Silicon Valley is a trend-setting sort of place. Increasingly, the home interiors o
The Californian coastline north and south of Silicon Valley is a trend-setting sort of place. Increasingly, the home interiors o
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2010-06-17
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The Californian coastline north and south of Silicon Valley is a trend-setting sort of place. Increasingly, the home interiors of the well-heeled there tend toward one of two (1)_____. Houses are (2)_____ light flooded, sparse and vaguely Asian in (3)_____, with perhaps a Zen fountain in one corner, a Yoga area in another. Or they resemble electronic control rooms with all sorts of (4)_____, computers, routers, antennae, screens and remote controls. Occasionally, both elements are (5)_____. "She" may have the living room and public areas, (6)_____ "he" is banished with his toys up or down the stairs.
Currently, the gadget lovers have powerful allies. Many of the largest companies in the consumer-electronics, computer, telecoms and internet industries have made a strategic decision to (7)_____ visions of a "digital home", "eHome", or "connected home". Doubting that (8)_____ from corporate customers will ever (9)_____ to the boom levels of the late 1990s, Microsoft, Intel, Sony, Verizon, Comcast, Hewlett-Packard, Apple and others see the consumer (10)_____ their best chance for growth and will be throwing a bewildering (11)_____ of home "solutions" at (12)_____ in the coming months and years.
To understand what the (13)_____ ultimately have in (14)_____ it is best to visit the (15)_____ homes that most have built on their campuses or at trade shows. (16)_____ cosy and often intimidating, these feature flat screens almost everywhere, (17)_____ electronic picture frames in the bedroom from the large TV-substitute in the living room. Every (18)_____ has a microchip and can be (19)_____ to, typed into or clicked onto. Everything is (20)_____ to a central computer through wireless links.
选项
A、Ultimately
B、Typically
C、Fortunately
D、Rarely
答案
D
解析
本题是一道并列平行结构题,考查对于由"and"一词构成的并列平行结构的准确把握和理解。"and"前后的两个形容词的含义相对立("cosy"舒适的 "intimidating"吓人的)。"and"一词后面的含义是"通常(often)吓人的",由此可以反推出"难得(rarely)舒适的"。
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