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  3. Excerpt 1: Sales of e-readers surged during the Christmas holiday season, according to a Pew Research Center report, which s

Excerpt 1: Sales of e-readers surged during the Christmas holiday season, according to a Pew Research Center report, which s

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问题    Excerpt 1:
   Sales of e-readers surged during the Christmas holiday season, according to a Pew Research Center report, which showed that the number of adults in the United States who owned tablets nearly doubled from mid-December to early January.
   Excerpt 2:
   Apple, based in Cupertino, California, controls 73% of the market, while Samsung Electronic Co. , Sony Corp. and Toshiba Corp. are among companies making constant improvements on tablets without bringing services that cut into the market share, Sarah Rotman Epps, an analyst at Forrester, said in the report.
   Excerpt 3:
   Under Square’s year-long pilot program, an iPad would be installed in the space where Taxi TVs currently sit, and the driver would have an iPhone to process credit-card payments. The technology would allow drivers to accept a passenger’s card at any point during the ride, then enter the amount later. The system charges drivers less in credit card transaction fees than the current rates.
   Excerpt 4:
   When Apple introduced the iPad tablet computer in 2010, it was doing what it likes to do best: creating a new category to dominate, as it had done with the iPod and iPhone. By the end of the year, the company had sold nearly 15 million iPads, generating about $9. 5 billion in revenue.
   Just two years later, the chief executive of Apple, Timothy D. Cook, has a prediction: the day will come when tablet devices like the Apple iPad outsell traditional personal computers.
   Excerpt 5:
   Apple has made its first attempt to quantify how many American jobs can be credited to the sale of its iPads and other products, a group that includes the Apple engineers who design the devices and the drivers who deliver them—even the people who build the trucks that get them there.
   On Friday, the company published the results of a study it commissioned saying that it had "created or supported" 514,000 American jobs. The study is an effort to show that Apple’s benefit to the American job market goes far beyond the 47, 000 people it directly employs here.
   Excerpt 6:
   People who read e-books on tablets like the iPad are realizing that while a book on a black-and-white Kindle is straightforward and immersive, a tablet offers a menu of distractions that can fragment the reading experience, or stop it in its tracks.
   E-mail lurks tantalizingly within reach. Looking up a tricky word or unknown fact in the book is easily accomplished through a quick Google search. And if a book starts to drag, giving up on it to stream a movie over Netflix or scroll through your Twitter feed is only a few taps away.
Tablet devices can miraculously perform many functions but they also cause the problem of______.
选项 A、its rivals succeeding in cutting into the market share
B、failing to process credit-card payments with an iPhone
C、e-book readers being distracted from their normal reading
D、misleading the trucks that get them to the tablet market
答案C
解析 细节题。本题做题的关键是正确理解题目，并抓住题目关键词。本题的意思是：平板电脑出色地完成了多项任务，但是也引起了怎样的问题?题目关键词cause the problem，原文中只有Excerpt 6第一段最后一句提到了平板电脑存在的问题。根据原文中的表述a tablet offers a menu of distractions that can fragment the reading experience，or stop it in its tracks(平板电脑提供了可能让人分心的菜单内容，它们会割裂阅读经历或者中断阅读)可以发现正确答案是C选项。而A选项its rivals succeeding in cutting into the market share(它的竞争对手正在侵吞它的市场份额)、B选项failing to process credit-card payments with an iPhone(没能通过iPhone进行信用卡付费)和D选项misleading the trucks that get them to the tablet market(误导了将它们运送到市场的卡车)均是原文未涉及的内容，与原文不符。
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