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单选题A middle-aged couple sits in front of a TV set. He flicks idly through a magazine, she holds a drink．An advertisement for Marks & Spencer, a British retailer, comes on. It is a humdrum domestic scene，one that could have been captured at any point in the past 50 years.
The husband and wife are playing back a programme that they have captured on a digital video recorder-something they do often. They do not need to watch advertisements. Indeed, they claim never to do so. Whenever an ad comes on during a recorded programme, the husband says in an interview, he zips through it at 30 times the normal speed.
Just outside Brighton, on England's south coast, Sarah Pearson watches people watch television. She has almost 100,000 hours of video showing utterly banal scenes-people channel-surfing, fighting over the remote control and napping. Her findings are astonishing. There turns out to be an enormous gap between how people say they watch television and how they actually do. This gap contains clues to why television is so successful, and why so many attempts to transform it through technology have failed.
In the past few years viewers have gained much more control over television. Video-cassette recorders have been replaced by DVD players and digital video recorders ( DVRs)，both of which are easier to use．Cable and satellite firms offer a growing number of videos on demand. TV has gone online and become mobile．As a result, viewers’ expectations have changed dramatically．Katsuaki Suzuki of Fuji Television，Japan's biggest broadcaster, says nobody feels they need to be at home to catch the 9 p.m. drama any more.①
But a change in expectations is not quite the same as a change in behaviour．Although it is easier than ever to watch programmes at a time and on a device of one's choosing, and people expect to be able to do so, nearly all TV is nonetheless watched live on a television set．② Even in British homes with a Sky + box, which allows for easy recording of programmes, almost 85 % of television shows are viewed at the time the broadcasters see fit to air them．③
“People want to watch ‘Pop Idol’ when everyone else is watching it,” says Mike Darcey of BSkyB．If that is not possible, they watch it as soon as they can afterwards. Some 60% of all shows recorded on Sky + boxes are viewed within a day.
阅读以上文章，回答题
According to the passage, the husband is __________．
[A] a programmer
[B] an interviewee
[C] a producer
[D] an employee
The husband and wife are playing back a programme that they have captured on a digital video recorder-something they do often. They do not need to watch advertisements. Indeed, they claim never to do so. Whenever an ad comes on during a recorded programme, the husband says in an interview, he zips through it at 30 times the normal speed.
Just outside Brighton, on England's south coast, Sarah Pearson watches people watch television. She has almost 100,000 hours of video showing utterly banal scenes-people channel-surfing, fighting over the remote control and napping. Her findings are astonishing. There turns out to be an enormous gap between how people say they watch television and how they actually do. This gap contains clues to why television is so successful, and why so many attempts to transform it through technology have failed.
In the past few years viewers have gained much more control over television. Video-cassette recorders have been replaced by DVD players and digital video recorders ( DVRs)，both of which are easier to use．Cable and satellite firms offer a growing number of videos on demand. TV has gone online and become mobile．As a result, viewers’ expectations have changed dramatically．Katsuaki Suzuki of Fuji Television，Japan's biggest broadcaster, says nobody feels they need to be at home to catch the 9 p.m. drama any more.①
But a change in expectations is not quite the same as a change in behaviour．Although it is easier than ever to watch programmes at a time and on a device of one's choosing, and people expect to be able to do so, nearly all TV is nonetheless watched live on a television set．② Even in British homes with a Sky + box, which allows for easy recording of programmes, almost 85 % of television shows are viewed at the time the broadcasters see fit to air them．③
“People want to watch ‘Pop Idol’ when everyone else is watching it,” says Mike Darcey of BSkyB．If that is not possible, they watch it as soon as they can afterwards. Some 60% of all shows recorded on Sky + boxes are viewed within a day.
阅读以上文章，回答题
According to the passage, the husband is __________．
[A] a programmer
[B] an interviewee
[C] a producer
[D] an employee
参考答案：B进入在线模考
推断题。由题干中的husband定位至第二段。末句指出“the husband says in an interview，he zips through it at 30 times the normal speed”，从句中的interview可以看出，该人是一名受访者，故[B]为答案。虽然该段提到programme，但均指电视节目，没有涉及节目编排者和制片人，排除[A]和[C]；文中也没有提到雇佣关系，排除[D]。
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