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Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
Pasta is no longer off the menu, after a new review of studies suggested that the carbohydrate can form part of a healthy diet, and even help people lose weight. For years, nutritionists have recommended that pasta be kept to a 26 , to cut calories, prevent fat build-up and stop blood sugar 27 up.The low-carbohydrate food movement gave birth to such diets as the Atkins, Paleo and Keto, which advised swapping foods like bread, pasta and potatoes for vegetables, fish and meat. More recently the trend of swapping spaghetti for vegetables has been 28 by clean-eating experts.
But now a 29 review and analysis of 30 studies by Canadian researchers found that not only does pasta not cause weight gain, but three meals a week can help people drop more than half a kilogram over four months. The reviewers found that pasta had been unfairly demonized (妖魔化) because it had been 30 in with other, more fat-promoting carbohydrates.
“The study found that pasta didn’t 31 to weight gain or increase in body fat,” said lead author Dr John Sievenpiper. “In 32 the evidence, we can now say with some confidence that pasta does not have an 33 effect on body weigh outcomes when it is consumed as part of a healthy dietary pattern.” In fact, analysis actually showed a small weigh loss. So 34 to concerns, perhaps pasta can be part of a healthy diet.
Those involved in the 35 trials on average ate 3.3 servings of pasta a week instead of other carbohydrates, one serving equaling around half a cup. They lost around half a kilogram over an average follow-up of 12 weeks.
A) adverse
B) championed
C) clinical
D) contrary
E) contribute
F) intimate
G) lumped
H) magnified
I) minimum
J) radiating
K) ration
L) shooting
M) subscribe
N) systematic
O) weighing
Section B
Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.
The Best Retailers Combine Bricks and Clicks
A) Retail profits are falling sharply. Stores are closing. Malls are emptying. The depressing stories just keep coming. Reading the earnings announcements of large retail stores like Macy’s, Nordstorm, and Target is about as uplifting as a tour of an intensive care unit. The interact is apparently taking down yet another industry. Brick and mortar stores (实体店) seem to be going the way of the yellow pages. Sure enough, the Census Bureau just released data showing that online retail sales surged 15.2 percent between the first quarter of 2015 and the first quarter of 2016.
B) But before you dump all of your retail stocks, there are more facts you should consider. Looking only at that 15.2 percent "surge" would be misleading. It was an increase that was on a small base of 6.9 percent. Even when a tiny number grows by a large percentage terms, it is often still tiny.
C) More than 20 years after the internet was opened to commerce, the Census Bureau tells us that brick and mortar sales accounted for 92.3 percent of retail sales in the first quarter of 2016. Their data show that only 0.8 percent of retail sales shifted from offline to online between the beginning of 2015 and 2016.
D) So, despite all the talk about drone (无人机) deliveries to your doorstep, all the retail executives expressing anxiety over consumers going online, and even a Presidential candidate exclaiming that Amazon has a "huge antitrust problem," the Census data suggest that physical retail is thriving. Of course, the closed stores, depressed executives, and sinking stocks suggest otherwise. What's the real story?
E) Many firms operating brick and mortar stores are in trouble. The retail industry is getting “reinvented,” as we describe in our new book. Matchmakers. It’s standing in the path of what Schumpeter called a gale (大风) of creative destruction. That storm has been brewing for some time, and as it has reached gale force, most large retailers are searching for a response. As the CFO of Macy’s put it recently, “We’re frankly scratching our heads.”
F) But it’s not happening as experts predicted. In the peak of the dot. com bubble, brick and mortar retail was one of those industries the internet was going to kill—and quickly. The dot.corn bust discredited most predictions of that sort and in the years that followed, conventional retailers’ confidence in the future increased as Census continued to report weak online sales. And then the gale hit.
G) It is becoming increasingly clear that retail reinvention isn’t a simple battle to the death between bricks and clicks. It is about devising retail models that work for people who are making increasing use of a growing array of internet-connected tools to change how they search, shop, and buy. Creative retailers are using the new technologies to innovate just about everything stores do from managing inventory, to marketing, to getting paid.
H) More than drones dropping a new supply of underwear on your doorstep, Apple’s massively successful brick-and-mortar-and-glass retail stores and Amazon’s small steps in the same direction are what should keep old-fashioned retailers awake at night. Not to mention the large number of creative new retailers, like Bonobos, that are blending online and offline experiences in creative ways.
I) Retail reinvention is not a simple process, and it’s also not happening on what used to be called "Internet Time." Some internet-driven changes have happened quickly, of course. Craigslist quickly overtook newspaper classified ads and turned newspaper economics upside down. But many widely anticipated changes weren’t quick, and some haven’t really started. With the benefit of hindsight (后见之明), it looks like the interact will transform the economy at something like the pace of other great inventions like electricity. B2B commerce, for example, didn’t move mainly online by 2005 as many had predicted in 2000, nor even by 2016, but that doesn’t mean it won’t do so over the next few decades.
J) But the gale is still blowing. The sudden decline in foot traffic in recent years, even though it hasn’t been accompanied by a massive decline in physical sales, is a critical warning. People can shop more efficiently online and therefore don’t need to go to as many stores to find what they want. There’s a surplus of physical shopping space for the crowds, which is one reason why stores are downsizing and closing.
K) The rise of the mobile phone has recently added a new level of complexity to the process of retail reinvention.Even five years ago most people faced a choice. Sit at your computer, probably at home or at the office, search and browse, and buy. Or head out to the mall, or Main Street, look and shop, and buy. Now, just about everyone has a smartphone, connected to the internet almost everywhere almost all the time. Even when a retailer gets a customer to walk in the store, she can easily see if there’s a better deal online or at another store nearby.
L) So far, the main thing many large retailers have done in response to all this is to open online stores, so people will come to them directly rather than to Amazon and its smaller online rivals.Many are having the same problem that newspapers have. Even if they get online traffic, they struggle to make enough money online to compensate for what they are losing offline.
M) A few seem to be making this work.Among large traditional retailers, Walmart recently reported the best results, leading its stock price to surge, while Macy’s, Target, and Nordstrom’s dropped. Yet Walmart’s year-over-year online sales only grew 7 percent, leading its CEO to lament (哀叹), “Growth here is too slow.”Part of the problem is that almost two decades after Amazon filed the one.click patent, the online retail shopping and buying experience is filled with frictions.A recent study graded more than 600 internet retailers on how easy it was for consumers to shop, buy, and pay.Almost half of the sites didn’t get a passing grade and only 18 percent got an A or B.
N) The turmoil on the ground in physical retail is hard to square with the Census data. Unfortunately, part of the explanation is that the Census retail data are unreliable.Our deep 100k into those data and their preparation revealed serious problems.It seems likely that Census simply misclassifies a large chunk of online sales.It is certain that the Census procedures, which lump the online sales of major traditional retailers like Walmart with“non-store retailers"1ike food trucks.can mask major changes in individual retail categories.The bureau could easily present their data in more useful ways.but they have chosen not to.
O) Despite the turmoil, brick and mortar won’t disappear any time soon.The big questions are which, if any, of the large traditional retailers will still be on the scene in a decade or two because they have successfully reinvented themselves, which new players will operate busy stores on Main Streets and maybe even in shopping malls, and how the shopping and buying experience will have changed in each retail category.Investors shouldn’t write off brick and mortar.Whether they should bet on the traditional players who run those stores now is another matter
36.Although online retailing has existed for some twenty years, nearly half of the internet retailers still fail to receive satisfactory feedback from consumers, according to a recent survey.
37.Innovative retailers integrate internet technologies with conventional retailing to create new retail models.
38.Despite what the Census data suggest, the value of physical retail’s stocks has been dropping.
39.Innovative-driven changes in the retail industry didn’t take place as quickly as widely anticipated.
40. Statistics indicate that brick and mortar sales still made up the lion’s share of the retail business.
41. Companies that successfully combine online and offline business models may prove to be a big concern for traditional retailers.
42.Brick and mortar retailers’ faith in their business was strengthened when the dot com bubble burst.
43. Despite the tremendous challenges from online retailing, traditional retailing will be here to stay for quite some time.
44. With the rise of online commerce, physical retail stores are likely to suffer the same fate as i the yellow pages.
45. The wide use of smartphones has made it more complex for traditional retailers to reinvent their business.
Section C
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section.Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C)and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.
Professor Stephen Hawking has warned that the creation of powerful artifcial intelligence (AI) will be “either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity”, and praised the creation of an academic institute dedicated to researching the future of intelligence as “ crucial to the future of our civilisation and our species”.
Hawking was speaking at the opening of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence(LCFI) at Cambridge University, a multi-disciplinary institute that will attempt to tackle some of the open-ended questions raised by the rapid pace of development in AI research. “We spend a great deal of time studying history,” Hawking said, “which, let’s face it, is mostly the history of stupidity. So it’s a welcome change that people are studying instead the future of intelligence.”
While the world-renowned physicist has often been cautious about AI, raising concerns that humanity could be the architect of its own destruction if it creates a super-intelligence with a will of its own, he was also quick to highlight the positives that AI research can bring. “The potential benefits of creating intelligence are huge,” he said. “We cannot predict what we might achieve when our own minds are amplified by AI. Perhaps with the tools of this new technological revolution, we will be able to undo some of the damage done to the natural world by the last one—industrialisation. And surely we will aim to finally eradicate disease and poverty. And every aspect of our lives will be transformed. In short, success in creating AI could be the biggest event in the history of our civilisation.”
Huw Price, the centre’s academic director and the Bertrand Russell professor of philosophy at Cambridge University, where Hawking is also an academic, said that the centre came about partially as a result of the university’s Centre for Existential Risk. That institute examined a wider range of potential problems for humanity, while the LCFI has a narrow focus.
AI pioneer Margaret Boden, professor of cognitive science at the University of Sussex, praised the progress of such discussions. As recently as 2009, she said, the topic wasn’t taken seriously, even among AI researchers. “AI is hugely exciting,” she said, “but it has limitations, which present grave dangers given uncritical use.”
The academic community is not alone in warning about the potential dangers of AI as well as the potential benefits. A number of pioneers from the technology industry, most famously the entrepreneur Elon Musk, have also expressed their concerns about the damage that a super-intelligent AI could do to humanity.
46. What did Stephen Hawking think of artificial intelligence?
A) It would be vital to the progress of human civilisation.
B) It might be a blessing or a disaster in the making.
C) It might present challenges as well as opportunities.
D) It would be a significant expansion of human intelligence.
47. What did Hawking say about the creation of the LCFI?
A) It would accelerate the progress of AI research.
B) It would mark a step forward in the AI industry.
C) It was extremely important to the destiny of humankind.
D) It was an achievement of multi-disciplinary collaboration.
48. What did Hawking say was a welcome change in AI research?
A) The shift of research focus from the past to the future.
B) The shift of research from theory to implementation.
C) The greater emphasis on the negative impact of AI.
D) The increasing awareness of mankind’s past stupidity.
49. What concerns did Hawking raise about AI?
A) It may exceed human intelligence sooner or later.
B) It may ultimately over-amplify the human mind.
C) Super-intelligence may cause its own destruction.
D) Super-intelligence may eventually ruin mankind.
50. What do we learn about some entrepreneurs from the technology industry?
A) They are much influenced by the academic community.
B) They are most likely to benefit from AI development.
C) They share the same concerns about AI as academics.
D) They believe they can keep AI under human control.
Passage Two
Questions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage.
The market for products designed specifically for older adults could reach $30 billion by next year, and startups (初创公司) want in on the action. What they sometimes lack is feedback from the people who they hope will use their products. So Brookdale, the country’s largest owner of retirement communities, has been inviting a few select entrepreneurs just to move in for a few days, show off their products and hear what the residents have to say.
That’s what brought Dayle Rodriguez, 28, all the way from England to the dining room of Brookdale South Bay in Torrance, California. Rodriguez is the community and marketing manager for a company called Sentab. The startup’s product, SentabTV, enables older adults who may not be comfortable with computers to access email, video chat and social media using just their televisions and a remote control.
“It’s nothing new, it’s nothing too complicated and it’s natural because lots of people have TV remotes,”says Rodriguez.
But none of that is the topic of conversation in the Brookdale dining room. Instead, Rodriguez solicits residents’ advice on what he should get on his cheeseburger and how he should spend the afternoon. Playing cards was on the agenda, as well as learning to play mahjong (麻将).
Rodriguez says it’s important that residents here don’t feel like he’s selling them something. “I’ve had more feedback in a passive approach,”he says. “Playing pool, playing cards, having dinner, having lunch,”all work better “than going through a survey of questions. When they get to know me and to trust me, knowing for sure I’m not selling them something—there’ll be more honest feedback from them.”
Rodriguez is just the seventh entrepreneur to move into one of Brookdale’s 1,100 senior living communities. Other new products in the program have included a kind of full-body blow dryer and specially designed clothing that allows people with disabilities to dress and undress themselves.
Mary Lou Busch, 93, agreed to try the Sentab system. She tells Rodriguez that it might be good for someone, but not for her.
“I have the computer and FaceTime, which I talk with my family on,”she explains. She also has an iPad and a smartphone. “So I do pretty much everything I need to do.”
To be fair, if Rodriguez had wanted feedback from some more technophobic (害怕技术的)seniors, he might have ended up in the wrong Brookdale community. This one is located in the heart of Southern California’s aerospace corridor. Many residents have backgrounds in engineering, business and academic circles.
But Rodriguez says he's still learning something important by moving into this Brookdale community: “People are more tech-proficient than we thought.”
And besides, where else would he learn to play mahjong?
51. What does the passage say about the startups?
A) They never lose time in upgrading products for seniors.
B) They want to have a share of the seniors’ goods market.
C) They invite seniors to their companies to try their products.
D) They try to profit from promoting digital products to seniors.
52. Some entrepreneurs have been invited to Brookdale to______.
A) have an interview with potential customers.
B) conduct a survey of retirement communities.
C) collect residents’ feedback on their products
D) show senior residents how to use IT products
53. What do we know about SentabTV?
A) It is a TV program catering to the interest of the elderly.
B) It is a digital TV which enjoys popularity among seniors.
C) It is a TV specially designed for seniors to view programs.
D) It is a communication system via TV instead of a computer.
54. What does Rodriguez say is important in promoting products?
A) Winning trust from prospective customers.
B) Knowing the likes and dislikes of customers.
C) Demonstrating their superiority on the spot.
D) Responding promptly to customer feedback.
55. What do we learn about the seniors in the Brookdale community?
A) Most of them are interested in using the Sentab.
B) They are quite at ease with high-tech products.
C) They have much in common with seniors elsewhere.
D) Most of them enjoy a longer life than average people.
26. I) minimum。 详解:名词辨析题。空格前面是不定冠词a,冠词之前是动词短语 be kept to,因此空格处需要填入名词单数形式。根据空格前的动词短语 be kept to可知,空格中填入的名词可能表示程度,再结合空格后的 to cut calories“减少热量”,推断该词与“少量”之类的意义相关,由此确定名词I) minimum“最小值;最低限度”为本题答案。备选的其他名词中,均与空格前的 be kept to 和空格后的 cut意义不相符合,均可排除。
27. L) shooting。 详解:动词辨析题。空格位于动宾结构 stop sb./ sth. doing之中,由此推断空格处需要填入动词- ing形式,并与副词 up 搭配构成宾语的补语。空格所在句的前半部分指出,营养学家一直建议尽可能少食用意大利面,以减少热量,防止脂肪堆积,结合之后的副词 up,可知此处的意思是要阻止血糖升高,动词- ing 形式的选项中只有 shooting 可与 up搭配,表示“猛增”之意,由此确定答案为L)。另外两个- ing形式的动词选项均与此意义不符,因此均可排除。
28. B) championed。 详解:动词辨析题。空格处前面是助动词 has been,后面有介词 by 表示动作的发出者,因此需要填入动词- ed形式。本段第一句提到,低碳水化合物饮食运动建议将意大利面等换成蔬菜和肉食,可知以蔬菜换意大利粉的趋势是受到支持的,由此确定 B) championed“支持;拥护”为本题答案。
29. N) systematic。 详解:形容词辨析题。空格前为不定冠词a,空格后为名词短语 review and analysis,因此空格处应填入形容词或动词分词形式,作其后名词的定语。空格所在句指出,加拿大研究人员对30项研究进行了综述和分析,再由其后的名词可以确定N) systematic“系统的”为本题答案。其余的形容词或动词分词形式均不能与名词 review 或 analysis搭配,故均排除。
30. G) lumped。 详解:动词辨析题。空格前面是助动词 had been,空格后是副词 in 和介词 with,因此推断空格处应填入动词过去分词作谓语,并与其后的 in with 构成短语,而 G) lumped“混在一起”可与 in with 搭配构成短语,表示“与……相混杂”,故为答案。另外一个过去分词 magnified“放大;夸大”与空格所在句意义不符,故排除。
31. E) contribute。 详解:动词辨析题。空格位于助动词 didn't之后,其后是介词to,应与其构成谓语,后接宾语 weight gain。由前文可知,以往意大利面这类碳水化合物含量高的食品被误当成减肥的禁忌,而本段所分析的研究与此看法相反,认为意大利面不会导致体重增加,故E) contribute与介词 to搭配,表示“导致”,故为答案。剩余的动词原形选项 intimate、 ration 和 subscribe均与原文意义不符,故均排除。
32. O) weighing。 详解:动词辨析题。空格位于 in引导的介词短语中,作介词宾语,而空格后为名词短语 the evidence,可知应填入动名词形式。前文提到,新研究是对过去的30项研究进行分析和综述,可推想研究方法中不乏对证据的比较和权衡,故O) weighing“权衡”符合句意,故为答案。剩下的一个动词-' ing 形式选项 radiating不符合句意,故排除。
33. A) adverse。 详解:形容词辨析题。空格前面是不定冠词 an,后面为名词 effect,可知空格处应填入形容词或动词的分词形式,且其发音以元音音素开头,在符合条件的选项中, adverse“相反的;不利的”与 effect搭配,与上下文相符,表示适当摄入意大利面不会对体重造成不利影响,故A)为答案。 intimate“亲密的;私人的”与此处意思不符,故排除。
34. D) contrary。 详解:形容词辨析题。空格位于一个独立结构之中,其后是 to引导的介宾短语 to concerns,而句子的主干为简单句,为判断和说明性文字,指出意大利面可能是健康饮食的一部分,可知此处应填入形容词,再由前文所提及的,过去的观点担心意大利面会增加体重,可确定D) contrary“相反的;对立的“符合题意,表示与担忧意大利面不健康的观点相反。
35. C) clinical。 详解:形容词辨析题。空格前是定冠词 the,其后为名词 trials“试验”,可知空格处应填入形容词或动词分词形式。再根据后文介绍有关食用意大利面的试验情况,可知本题答案为 C) clinical“临床的”。
36.详解:M)段最后两句提到,一项最近的研究对600多家互联网零售商进行了评分,而结果是几乎一半的网站没有达到及格的分数,只有18%的网站获得了A或B。可见消费者对这些零售商的反馈是不甚满意的。题干中的 a recent survey 对应原文中的a recent study,题干中的 nearly half 是对原文中 almost half的同义转述,题干中的 fail to receive satisfactory feedback 是对本段最后一句的概括,故答案为M)。
37.详解:文章G)段最后一句提到,创意零售商正利用互联网新技术来创新商店从管理库存到营销再到获得报酬的每一件事。题干中的 integrate internet technologies 是对原文中 using the new technologies 的同义转述,题干中的 create new retail models 是对原文中 innovate just about everything stores do 的同义转述,故答案为G)。
38.详解:D)段定位句提到,尽管统计局的数据显示实体零售业正在蓬勃发展,但其股价却下跌了。题干中的 the value of physical retail's stocks has been dropping 是对原文中 sinking stocks 的同义转述,故答案为 D)。
39.详解:I)段定位句提到,许多普遍预期的变化并不迅速,有些还没有真正开始。题干中的 didn't take place as quickly as widely anticipated 是对原文中 many widely anticipated changes weren't quick 的同义转述,故答案为I)。
40.详解:C)段定位句提到,统计局告诉我们,2016年第一季度,实体店的销售额占零售总额的92.3%。题干中的 brick and mortar sales still made up the lion's share of the retail business是对原文中 brick and mortar sales accounted for 92.3 percent of retail sales 的同义转述,故答案为 C)。
41.详解:H)段定位句列举了一些将线上销售和线下服务相结合的创新模式,并指出这会让传统零售商彻夜难眠。题干中的 companies that successfully combine online and off line business models 是对原文中 more than drones dropping a new supply of underwear on your doorstep, Apple's massively successful brick- and- mortar- and- glass retail stores and Amazon's small steps in the same direction 的概括归纳,题干中的 a big concern for traditional retailers是对原文中 keep old- fashioned retailers awake at night的同义转述,故答案为H)。
42.详解:F)段定位句提到,网络经济的破产让人们对大多数此类的预测不再确信,在随后的几年里,随着统计局数据持续报告称线上销售疲软,传统零售商对未来的信心也随之增强。题干中的 brick and mortar retailers' faith 是对原文中 conventional retailers' confidence 的同义转述,题干中的 the dot.com bubble burst是对原文中 the dot.com bust 的同义转述,故答案为F)。
43.详解:O)段定位句提到,尽管混乱不堪,实体店并不会很快消失。题干中的 despite the tremendous challenges是对原文中 despite the turmoil的同义转述,题干中的 stay for quite some time 是对原文中 won't disappear any time soon 的同义转述,故答案为O)。
44.详解:A)段定位句提到,互联网显然正在摧毁另一个行业。实体店似乎正在走黄页之路。题干中的 are likely to suffer the same fate as the yellow pages 是对原文中 seem to be going the way of the yellow pages的同义转述,故答案为A)。
45.详解:K)段定位句提到,手机的兴起也给零售业的变革过程增加了新的复杂性。题干中的 the wide use of smartphones 是对原文中 the rise of the mobile phone的同义转述,题干中的 made it more complex 是对原文中 added a new level of complexity 的同义转述,故答案为K)。
46. B)。详解:由文章首段可知,霍金认为强大的人工智能的创建将是“人类有史以来发生的最好或最坏的事情”,也就是说,他认为人工智能的发展对人类而言福祸难料,故答案为B)。
47. C)。详解:文章第二段第一句提到,霍金是在剑桥大学莱弗休姆未来智能中心(LCFI)的开幕式上发表的讲话,而回溯至上一段结尾,霍金赞扬专门研究智能前景的学术机构的创立是“对我们文明和我们物种的未来至关重要的”,这与C)项的表述意义相同,故答案为C)。
48. A)。详解:由文章第二段最后两句可知,霍金认为,以往的研究历史,只是了解到人类过去的愚昧,而目前的研究是关注未来的,这个变化值得称道,可以推知,他欢迎的是研究重心由过去转为未来,故答案为A)。
49. D)。详解:第三段第一句提到,霍金提及他的担忧,即如果人类创造出一种拥有自身意愿的超级智能,那么人类很可能是在自取灭亡,可知这与D) 项表述一致,故答案为D)。
50. C)。详解:最后一段最后一句指出,像著名企业家埃隆·马斯克这样来自科技工业的先驱者也表达了他们对超越人类智慧的人工智能可能对人类造成损害的担忧,而上一句指出,学术界也有类似的忧虑,可知关于人工智能,企业界和学术界的担忧是一致的,故答案为C)。
51. B)。详解:定位句指出,老年人专用产品的市场产值高达300亿美元,而初创公司的态度是 want in on the action(参与到其中),可知它们希望在老年人产品市场中分得一些份额,故答案为 B)。
52. C)。详解:文章第一段第三句提到,布鲁克代尔邀请了一些精英企业家来进驻几天,展示他们的产品,并听取居民的意见,可见这些企业家来社区的目的中包括听取居民反馈这一项,故答案为C)。
53. D)。详解:第二段第三句提到,森塔布电视让不太习惯使用电脑的老年人只需使用电视机和遥控器就可以查收电子邮件、进行视频聊天和访问社交媒体,由此可知,这种电视其实并非用来观看电视节目,而是一种通信系统,能让人们上网联系,只是其媒介不是电脑,而是电视机,故答案为D)。
54. A)。详解:第五段第一句指出,罗德里格斯说,重要的是这里的居民不觉得他是向他们卖东西。而该段最后一句说,当他们了解并信任他,确信他不是在推销东西的时候,就会给出更诚实的反馈,可知关键在于取得信任,故答案为A)。
55. B)。 详解:第九段第一句提到了布鲁克代尔社区,而随后一句对该社区进行具体介绍,指出这里位于南加州航空走廊的中心,许多居民都具有工程、商业和学术界的背景,而第一句说,如果想要一些更惧怕科技的老年人的反馈,到布鲁克代尔社区可能就错了,可见这些具有科技背景的老人对高科技产品很熟悉。第十段中又提到罗德里格斯说:“人们比我们想象的更精通技术。”综合判断可知答案为B)。