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  3. 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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问题     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、quest
B、exhaustiveness
C、character
D、chaos
答案C
解析 本题是一道中心主旨内容扩展题。本文第一句(全文中心主旨句)讲"加州沿岸硅谷的南北地区是开创时尚(trend-setting)之地"。由此可以推断本句所论述的室内灯光的不同形式应属于时尚的具体特色(character)；本题空白处后面的"禅"(Zen)和"瑜伽" (Yoga)均暗示本题应选用表示"特色"(character)的词语。故本题的正确答案应该是character。
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