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  3. Connected homes will take longer to materialize than expected. The fanfare has gone on for years. Analysts have repeatedly predi

Connected homes will take longer to materialize than expected. The fanfare has gone on for years. Analysts have repeatedly predi

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问题     Connected homes will take longer to materialize than expected. The fanfare has gone on for years. Analysts have repeatedly predicted that the "internet of things" could transform the lives of individuals as dramatically as the spread of the mobile internet. Providers have focused on the home, touting products such as coffee pots that turn on when the alarm clock rings. But so far consumers have been largely resistant to making their homes "smart".
    Too few consumers are convinced that the internet has a role to play in every corner of their lives. A survey conducted in Britain by a consulting firm, found that 72% of people have no plans to adopt smart-home technology in the next two to five years and that they are unwilling to pay for it. Last year consumers globally spent around $60 billion on hardware and services for the smart home, a fraction of the total outlay on domestic gadgets. That’s not for want of trying by tech firms, which have poured cash into their efforts to connect everyday objects to the internet. There are several reasons for muted enthusiasm. A lot of smart devices for the home, remain "fun but not essential", says Adam Segar of Canary. Many smart gadgets are still too expensive. One of Samsung’ s smart fridges sells for a cool $5,000. The technology is not perfect yet, either.
    Perhaps the biggest surprise is that Amazon, which failed miserably in its ambition to develop a smartphone, is showing the way. Amazon Echo shares information about the weather and sports scores, plays music and turns lights on and off. The device, which costs around $ 180, is not yet a big seller. Yet the Echo is the talk of Silicon Valley. An interface that relies on voice commands could overcome one of the drawbacks of the piecemeal approach to the smart home, by becoming the standard integrator of all the other bits of smart kit.
    If the tech giants retain their ambition to sit at the centre of the smart home, uncertainty prevails over where the profits lie. "It remains unclear what the economic model for the smart home will be," says Andy Hobsbawm of Everything, an internet-of-things platform.
According to Paragraph 1, which of the following statements is NOT true?
选项 A、Connected homes will take a lot of time to achieve than expected.
B、The internet of things will be bound to change everybody’s lives remarkably.
C、Consumers are unwilling to purchase smart products.
D、Suppliers of smart products attach great importance to the home.
答案B
解析 细节题。根据题干关键词定位到文章第一段。A项内容可定位到该段首句Connected homes will take longer to materialize than expected，题干中achieve是文中materialize的同义替换，意为“实现”，故正确。C项“消费者不愿意为家庭购买智能产品”与该段最后一句But so far consumers have been largely resistant to making their homes “smart” (然而，迄今为止，顾客仍大力抵制实现家庭智能化)表述一致，故正确。D项“供应商主要关注家居领域”可定位到该段倒数第二句Providers have focused on the home供应商主要关注家居领域，且attach great importance to是focus on的同义替换，故正确。B项 “物联网肯定会显著改变人们的生活”，表达过于绝对，而该段第三句…predicted that the “internet of things” could transform the lives of individuals as dramatically as…表达一种预测，因此错误。故本题选B。
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