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Shopping has always been something of an impulsive activity, in which objects that catch our fancy while strolling are immediate

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问题     Shopping has always been something of an impulsive activity, in which objects that catch our fancy while strolling are immediately bought on a whim. Advertisers and sellers have taken advantage of this fact, carefully positioning inexpensive but attractive items on paths that we are most likely to cross, hoping that our human nature will lead to a greater profit for them. With the dawn of the Internet and its exploding use across the world, the same tactics apply.
    Advertisers now place " banners" , links to commercial web sites decorated with attractive pictures designed to catch our eyes while browsing the webs, on key web sites with heavy traffic. They pay top dollar for the right, thus creating profits for the hosting web site as well. These actions are performed in the hopes that during the course of our casual and leisurely web surfing, we’ll click on that banner that sparks our interest and thus, in theory, buy the products advertised.
    Initial results have been positive. Web sites report a huge inflow of cash, both from the advertisers who tempt customers in with the banners and the hosting web sites, which are paid for allowing the banners to be put in place. As trust and confidence in Internet buying increases and information security is heightened with new technology, the volume of buying is increasing, leading to even greater profits.
    The current situation, however, is not quite as optimistic. Just as magazine readers tend to unconsciously ignore advertisements in their favorite periodicals, web browsers are beginning to allow banners to slip their notice as well. Internet users respond to the flood of banners by viewing them as annoyances, a negative image that is hurting sales, since users are now less reluctant to click on those banners, preferring not to support the system that puts them in place. If Internet advertising is to continue to be a viable and profitable business practice, new methods will need to be considered to reinvigorate the industry.
    With the recent depression in the technology sector and slowing economy, even new practices may not do the trick. As consumers are saving more and frequenting traditional real estate businesses over their Internet counterparts, the fate of Internet business is called into question. The coming years will be the only reliable indication of whether shopping on the worldwide web is the wave of the future or simply an impulsive activity whose whim has passed.
The author’s attitude toward online shopping is______.
选项 A、conservative
B、positive
C、negative
D、objective
答案D
解析 尾题设置作者态度题，考生应重点关注尾段的主观感受词或态度提示词。根据尾段尾句The coming years will be the only reliable indication of whether shopping on the world wide web is the wave of the future or simply all impulse activity whose whim has passed．(网络购物究竟是一个未来的趋势还是一个激情逝去的冲动性行为，只有未来数年才会证明这一切)，此句中whether…or…(是……还是……)是涉及两种完全不同结果的表达，对此作者认为“只有未来才能回答”(only reliable indication)，显然作者的态度是辩证性的，即“客观的”，故D为正确项。
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