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Choose the best word to fill each blank from the choices A, B, C and D given after the passage. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet. 从A、B、C、D中选择最正确的答案，并填写在答题卷上。

Last December I bought myself a video cassette recorder described as ―simple to use‖. In the first week, I failed to program the machine to record from the TV, ____(1) even after months of practice I still made mistakes. I am not ____(2) it seems. According to a survey last year, more than one ____(3) four VCR owners never use the timer on their machines to record a program.

So why do producers keep on

designing and producing VCRs that are difficult to use if problems are so obvious? First, the problems are not

obvious to designers who have years of experience and who are ____(4) to

understand how these things work. Secondly, designers tend to add one or two features at a time to each model, whereas you or I face all a machine’s features ____(5). Thirdly, although finding problems in a ____(6) product is easy, it is too late by then to do anything about the design. Finally, if producers can ____(7) selling products that are difficult to use, it is not worth the

A. but B. that C.

since D. and

A. along B. lonely

C. alone D. lone A. to B. in

C. for

D. by

A. training

B.

trained

C. having trained

D. was trained

A. at once

B. at times

C. all in one

D. once

and for all A. fulfilled B. done

C. made D. finished

A. get away with

B.

get through with C. get

behind with D. get over

with

(5) (6) (3) (2) (1) (4) (7) effort of any of them to make improvements.

Some producers say they like to provide a wide ____(8) of features (8)

A. degree C. scope

B. range D. extent

B. do

(9)

A. doesn’t rather than making the machines easy to use. But that gives rise to the question, ―Why ____(9) you have features that are easy to use?‖ The answer is you can.

In an ideal world, there would be some ways of controlling quality ____(10) repeatedly redesigning the VCR until, say, 90 percent of users can work 90 percent of the features correctly 90 percent of the time.

C. can’t

D. can

A. for example

B.

much

like

C. such as

D.

that is

(10)

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