Hot Shot Electronics is designing a packing box for its new line of Acoustical Odyssey spe
A.75
B.60
C.48
D.27
E.18
A.75
B.60
C.48
D.27
E.18
A、simple linear progression
B、split progression
C、constant progression
D、derived hyperthematic progression
In 1998 the consumer electronics industry set the groundwork for the switch to digital products from analogue products, as companies formed alliances and introduced new products in the personal computer gadget, digital camera and digital television arenas. Digital technology produces sharper, higher-resolution images and crisper sound.
Personal computer-type gadgets are perhaps most reflective of the oncoming digital age, and 3 Com Corp’s Palm Pilot is everyone's favorite example. It offers calendar and address book functions and the latest version will allow access to the Internet and real-time data such as stock quotes.
As PC gadgets become hot items, home networking will grow, and may eventually reach a level in which everything in the home is computerized.
In the near-term, however, networks that enable users to connect multiple PCs to printers and other PC gadgets in the home will grow, especially as users get broadband Internet access, analysts said.
Other digital products that have received attention recently include CD-writeable products, which allow consumers to record on compact discs, and minidisk players.
Diamond Multimedia Systems Inc. has elicited an uproar from record studios with its device that allows music to be downloaded from the Internet.
"We will see more varieties of products and different storage capacities coming to market-provided Diamond survives the litigation process here," said Kevin Hause, an analyst at International Data Corp. "It's going to be an interesting race to watch."
On the video end there is DVD, which is entering the home entertainment realm. However, Paine Webber said in its 1999 technology forecast that DVD will not make major progress in the market against CD-ROMs due to continued vendor wrangling over standardization.
Still, the products are attracting users. In the first 18 months of sales, 365,000 people started using CDs, 394,000 VCRs and 1.07 million DVDs, said Jeff Joseph of the Consumer Electronics Manufacturing Association (Cema).
Digital Video Disk Recorders are expected to be the next hot video item, as consumers become attracted to their real-time pause and personalized viewing abilities.
And then there was this past autumn's high-definition TV launch. The year 1998 witnessed digital TV's first steps toward the mainstream, with manufacturers and networks putting forth high-definition television (HDTV).
In November, digital signals were transmitted in major US markets and stores began carrying high-priced HDTV sets for curious consumers. Although some in the industry are pegging the advent of digital TV to be as momentous as the introduction of color TV, many industry analysts expect it to be a long time for the now costly technology to have any impact on the mainstream consumer.
Cema expects the industry to have sold about 150,000 HDTV sets by the end of 1999. However, other analysts are more conservative, saying it will take at least until 2(D2 or 2003 for all the issues involved to be set- fled and standardization to occur.
Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A.The digital revolution began in U.S..
B.Gadget products are welcomed by everyone.
C.The digital gadgets are expected to take a stronger hold of the market this year.
D.Only scientists are aware of the advantages of the digital products.
【C1】
A.beside
B.next
C.near
D.behind
【C1】
A.beside
B.next
C.near
D.behind
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Travel Across Africa
For six hours we shot through the barren (荒芜的) landscape of the Karoo desert in South Africa. Just rocks and sand and baking sun. Knowing our journey was ending, Daniel and 1 just wanted to remember all we had seen and done. He used a camera. I used words. I had already finished three notebooks and was into the fourth, a beautiful leather notebook I&39;d bought in a market in Mozambique.<br>
Southern Africa was full of stories and visions. We were almost drunk on sensations. The roaring of the water at Victoria Falls, the impossible silence of the Okavango Delta in Botswana.<br>
And then the other things: dogs in the streets, whole families in Soweto living in one room, a kilometer from clean water.<br>
As we drove towards the setting sun, a quietness fell over us. The road was empty--we hadn&39;t seen another car for hours. And as I drove, something caught my eye, something moving close enough to touch them, to smell their hot breath. I didn&39;t know how long they had been there next to us.<br>
I shouted to Dan: "Look! but he was in a deep sleep, his camera lying useless by his feet."<br>
They raced the car for a few seconds, then disappeared far behind us, a memory of heroic forms in the red landscape.<br>
When Daniel woke up an hour later I told him what had happened.<br>
"Wild horses? "he said. "Why didn&39;t you wake me up, Sophia?"<br>
"I tried. But they were gone after a few seconds."<br>
"Are you sure you didn&39;t dream it?"<br>
"You were the one who was sleeping! "<br>
"Typical," he said. "The best photos are the ones we never take."<br>
We checked into a dusty hotel and slept the sleep of the dead.
Daniel and Sophia drove slowly through the busy desert. 查看材料
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
Part A
Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. (40 points)
The swine flu will probably return in force earlier than seasonal flu usually begins, federal health officials predicted Friday, saying they expected it to erupt as soon as schools open rather than in October or November.
The swine flu is still circulating in the United States, especially in summer camps, even though hot weather has arrived and the regular flu season ended months ago, "so we expect challenges when people return to school, when kids are congregating together," Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of respiratory diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in a telephone news conference held jointly with vaccine experts from the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services.
It is still unclear how many doses of a swine flu vaccine will be available by then, and officials have been reluctant to make firm predictions beyond saying that they expect tens of millions, rather than hundreds of millions, and they plan to distribute them to people who are the most vulnerable, like pregnant women and people who are the most likely to encounter the flu, like health care workers.
The number of doses available will depend on how fast seed strains grow, how much protection a small dose provides, and whether immune-system boosters called adjuvants are needed and prove to be safe; adjuvants are not used in American flu vaccines now.
Clinical trials testing those questions are expected to take another couple of months, said Dr. Jesse L. Goodman, director of the F. D.A.'s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research.
Assuming a swine flu vaccination campaign begins, it will be voluntary, Dr. Schuchat emphasized, but she "strongly encouraged" pregnant women to get both a seasonal flu shot and a swine flu shot when they are available.
The C.D.C.has been closely following the disease in the Southern Hemisphere winter, and it is mimicking the patterns seen in the United States and Mexico in the spring, she said.
Most infections and most serious cases are in children and young adults, and those with underlying conditions, including pregnancy, are the most likely to die. Dr. Schuchat likened the spread's unpredictability to that of popcorn: one city could see an explosion of cases and overwhelmed hospitals while another saw few.
Her most important message, she added, was that "the virus isn't gone, and we fully expect there will be challenges in the fall. "
Why did officials expect the swine flu to erupt as soon as schools open rather than in October or November?
A.There will be sufficient swine flu vaccines then.
B.The swine flu is still circulating.
C.The cold weather then will hinder their work.
D.People will be plunged into panic by then.
The center of the excitement was the first dual deck videotape recorder available to US consumers, the VCR 2, made by the tiny Arizona based Go video company. The VCR 2 enables its users to make high quality duplicates of prerecorded tapes easily. It also lets viewers watch a tape while simultaneously recording off the. air. Go-video hopes to have a limited supply of the VCR 2 in stores by Christmastime, priced at just under $1,000. But the machine's move from freeze frame. to faster forward has not been easy. For starters, Go-video could find no Japanese companies, which control manufacture of crucial VCR parts, willing to provide needed components. For another thing, US movie studios opposed the machine. So the company sued 15 Japanese and Korean makers, plus the Hollywood studios, claiming restrain of trade. Several manufactures have now settled with Go-video, and Korea's Samsung, is tooling up to produce the VCR 2. Meanwhile, Hollywood has modified its opposition because Go-video agreed to install circuitry that will prevent the VCR 2 from copying movies protected by antitheft coding. Still movie makers may see double for a while. Many of the films on store shelves, including hot new rentals like Coming to America and Crocodile Dundee 11, do not contain the coding.
VCR has many advantages, but it also has its limits which lie in ______.
A.it's not easy to duplicate prerecorded movies
B.it can not duplicate prerecorded movies
C.it can not be operated easily
D.it takes too long to duplicate prerecorded movies
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B、Binhai Electronics Ltd.
C、BinHai Electronics Ltd.
D、Bin Hai Electronics Ltd.
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