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  3. The following paragraphs are given in a wrong order. For Questions 41-45, you are required to reorganize these paragraphs into a

The following paragraphs are given in a wrong order. For Questions 41-45, you are required to reorganize these paragraphs into a

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问题 The following paragraphs are given in a wrong order. For Questions 41-45, you are required to reorganize these paragraphs into a coherent article by choosing from the list A-G. Some of the paragraphs have been placed for you. (10 points)

A. In any case, omnipresent chipping is years away. Undaunted, RFID chipmaker VeriChip is looking for big banks and credit-card firms interested in offering RFID-based e-wallets. If successful, they would truly give shouldering up to the bar for a drink a whole new meaning.
B. As the Baja Beach Club trial shows, RFID can tag people as well as goods. Some hospitals ate using RFID bracelets on newborn babies and elderly patients with dementia. Children in one Japanese school wave RFID cards to alert their parents that they’ve arrived.
C. For some retailers, RFID is a way to provide a more seamless shopping experience. British re tail giant Marks & Spencer is currently tagging men’s suits in several London stores as part of a test. When you buy a size 42, the stockroom—alerted by the tag—sends up another. In Prada’s New York store, if you hold a dress near a monitor, you’ll see models wearing it on a runway.
D. Antoine Hazelaar has a chip on his shoulder—or rather just beneath the skin of his left arm. It’s a piece of silicon the size of a grain of rice, and it emits wireless signals that are picked up by scanners nearby. Ever since the 34-year-old Web-site producer had the chip implanted in his arm, he’s enjoyed VIP status at Barcelona’s Baja Beach Club. Instead of queuing up behind velvet ropes, Hazelaar allows the guard to scan his arm, and strolls right in. If he wants a drink, the bartender waves an electronic wand that deducts from the 100 Euro tab on Hazelaar’s chip.
E. Such science-fictional clubbing is made possible by Radio Frequency Identification, or RFID, technology—tiny digital chips that broadcast wireless signals. RFID tags are cheap and small enough to be disposable, and they’re getting cheaper and smaller by the day. Retail stores are beginning to use them as glorified bar codes, putting them on cases of bananas or Coke so they can keep track of their inventory. The technology has the potential to transform our relationship to the objects around us. The prospect is exciting, but it raises troubling questions about the invasion of privacy.
F. For now, businesses see it as a way to save money and improve service. Big groceries, department stores and other retailers around the world are asking suppliers to put RFID tags on shipments of goods. Staff will know exactly where items are and when they came in. Customers will never have to leave the store empty-handed because items will never run out—wireless signals will alert staffers to dwindling supplies of soap. What’s more, RFID will help combat theft or forging, problems that cost businesses $500 billion a year.
G. Privacy implications remain a big obstacle. The fear is that companies or governments could use the tags as a means of monitoring. Proponents counter that RFID tags transmit for only a few meters, and the data can be deactivated once a product leaves the store. Nevertheless, CASP LAN and other watchdog groups have won concessions from retailers. Wal-Mart and Benetton will only use the tags on pallets, not on individual items, and Metro has gotten rid of RFID-enabled loyalty cards.

Order: D is the first paragraph and A is the last.
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答案E
解析 首段D描述了一个在俱乐部轻松付费的场景：肩膀装有芯片的Antoine Hazelaar只要用机器扫描一下胳膊就可以轻松付费了。根据英文结构可知，首段进行描述通常是为引入主题做铺垫，从该场景可以预测，这里谈论的应该是高科技在生活中的应用问题，因此第二段引入的主题应该是支持这种功能的新技术。E段开始的Such science-fictional clubbing是对D描述的最佳总结，clubbing与D中的club属于词汇复现，后面提到的RFID technology也与对下文预测的内容一致，符合上下文语义关系，故E为答案。
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