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Some products respond to consumers’ needs; others, like Sony’s airboard, see
Some products respond to consumers’ needs; others, like Sony’s airboard, see
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2024-10-04
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Some products respond to consumers’ needs; others, like Sony’s airboard, seek to create them. Like sending e-mails from the pool, or curling up in bed with your favorite sitcom. This futuristic apparatus combines the functions of a television, a DVD player and the Internet into a portable tablet the size of a place mat. If it catches on, it could change the concept of being digital at home.
At 1.5 kg, the airboard is light enough to carry anywhere in the house, and can send and receive data wirelessly from a base station hooked up to home-entertainment equipment. A 10.4-inc.(26-cm)LCD screen delivers vivid moving images or can serve as a digital photo album, and a touch-panel display eliminates the need for a keyboard. Sony, which began selling the device in Japan late last year, praises it as the Walkman of the information age. "It is amazing," says company president Kunitake Ando, who loftily describes the device as a gateway connecting the home to the outside world and eventually linking all appliances within. "The wireless environment will become quite common pretty soon."
I tried out the airboard in my Tokyo apartment, and I have to admit: it’s way cool. First of all, airboarding is easy. I didn’t crack the instruction manual once to get the thing set up—and this is from someone who has trouble finding the "record" button on the VCR. Relaxing on my balcony, I could call up the airboard’s on-screen remote control and start playing video. By pressing another button, I could Net surf or check my e-mail account, while a split screen let me simultaneously watch my movie. The airboard’s base station—the size of a shoe box—doubles as a stand and battery charger. There is a slot for inserting a Sony memory stick, the gum-stick-sized cassette used to store photos and other digital files.
But the airboard is not for everybody. At $1,065, it costs as much as a laptop but isn’t meant for serious computing. Checking e-mail is easy, but a 56-kbps modem makes for pretty slow surfing. The touch panel is fine for sending quick messages, but pushing the on-screen buttons is tedious for anything longer. [br] The last paragraph is intended to point out
选项
A、the airboard’s advantages and disadvantages.
B、the conditions of using the airboard.
C、critics’ comments on the airboard.
D、the limitations of the airboard.
答案
D
解析
文章开头三段在介绍airboard这个新产品时,用的词句都表明它们是强调airboard的优点的,而最后一段用了四个but,强调与前三段相反,强调的是airboard的使用局限性,可见本题应选D。最后一段的内容不能支持A中的advantages,C中的critics’comments也没有原文依据。最具干扰性的是B,虽然最后一段提到了airboard不能用于serious computing,上网速度不快,只能用于发送quick messages,这些看起来都像是一些条件,但解题时关键要注意段落中的4个but,注意这一段与前三段行文的对比关系。
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