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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 Evrythng, an internet-of-things platform.
According to Paragraph 3, the main reason for Echo to become the talk of Silicon Valley is that it______.
选项 A、occupies a large portion of market share
B、learns from the failure of developing smart phone
C、shares some information with other companies
D、overcomes the problem of piecemeal approach to the smart home
答案D
解析 细节题。根据题干关键词定位到文章第三段。A项“Echo占据市场大部分份额”与该段第三句…is not yet a big seller意思相反，故排除。B项“智能手机研发的失败为研发Echo积累了经验”在原文中并未提及。C项关键词share information可定位到该段第二句Amazoncho shares information about the weather and sports scores，但其不是Echo已成硅谷热点话题的主要原因。分析原文可知，Echo的成功主要在于其语音接口可以克服智能家居“连接方式标准化程度低”这一弊端，与D项表述一致，故本题选D。
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