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  3. Excerpt 1: Sales of e-readers surged during the Christmas holiday season, according to a Pew Research Center report, which s

Excerpt 1: Sales of e-readers surged during the Christmas holiday season, according to a Pew Research Center report, which s

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问题 Excerpt 1:
    Sales of e-readers surged during the Christmas holiday season, according to a Pew Research Center report, which showed that the number of adults in the United States who owned tablets nearly doubled from mid-December to early January.
Excerpt 2:
    Apple, based in Cupertino, California, controls 73 percent of the market, while Samsung Electronics Co., Sony Corp. and Toshiba Corp. are among companies making constant improvements on table without bringing services that cut into the market share, Sarah Rotman Epps, an analyst at Forrester, said in the report.
Excerpt 3:
    Under Square’s year-long pilot program, an iPad would be installed in the space where Taxi TVs currently sit, and the driver would have an iPhone to process credit-card payments. The technology would allow drivers to accept a passenger’s card at any point during the ride, and then enter the amount later. The system charges drivers less in credit card transaction fees than the current rates.
Excerpt 4:
    When Apple introduced the iPad tablet computer in 2010, it was doing what it likes to do best: creating a new category to dominate, as it had done with the iPod and iPhone. By the end of the year, the company had sold nearly 15 million iPads, generating about $ 9. 5 billion in revenue.
    Just two years later, the chief executive of Apple, Timothy D.Cook, has a prediction: the day will come when tablet devices like the Apple iPad outsell traditional personal computers.
Excerpt 5:
    Apple has made its first attempt to quantify how many American jobs can be credited to the sale of its iPads and other products, a group that includes the Apple engineers who design the devices and the drivers who deliver them—even the people who build the trucks that get them there.
    On Friday, the company published the results of a study it commissioned saying that it had "created or supported" 514,000 American jobs. The study is an effort to show that Apple’s benefit to the American job market goes far beyond the 47,000 people it directly employs here.
Excerpt 6:
    People who read e-books on tablets like the iPad are realizing that while a book on a black-and-white Kindle is straightforward and immersive, a tablet offers a menu of distractions that can fragment the reading experience, or stop it in its tracks.
    E-mail lurks tantalizingly within reach. Looking up a tricky or unknown fact in the book is easily accomplished through a Google search. And if a book starts to drag, giving up in it to stream a movie over Netflix or scroll through your Twitter feed is only a few taps away.
Which of the following statements is correct?
选项 A、The new way of payment functioned by iPhone does not charge passengers’ transaction fee.
B、Passengers’ credit card can be thrown away during any ride because iPhone won’t need them anymore.
C、iPads created the biggest revenue in the Apple’s history.
D、Cook’s prediction means that tablet devices will be more popular than traditional computers one day.
答案D
解析 从第二个片段中的描述可知，新的收费系统能允许乘客在旅程(ride)的任何时候使用信用卡，同时所收的交易费(transaction fee)比现有费率(current rate)低，因此可判断A、B错误；通过第四个片段可知，iPad创收9．5亿美元收入，但并未说明是历史上最高的收入，故C错误。Cook的预测(prediction)大意是“像iPad一样的平板机肯定能比传统个人电脑卖得好(outsell)”，与D选项意义相同。故本题选D。
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