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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、retailers
B、vendors
C、conspirator
D、designers
答案B
解析 retailers零售商；(流言等的)传播人、vendors(主要为法律用语)卖主、conspirator阴谋家；共谋者、designers设计者。本题是一道段落语意连接题。本文第二段叙述许多大公司(高新技术装置的卖方)已经做出了战略决策等事宜。本段继续第二段的话题深入探讨："为了了解这些卖方(大公司)头脑里究竟是如何打算的，人们最好去看一看卖方(这些大公司)在大场地和贸易展览处所构建的模拟家庭"。由此可以推断本题的正确答案应该是"vendors"(卖主)，即本文第二段中曾出现的大公司。
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