2008毕金献阅读理解电子书节选（6）
Unit1Part C
Directions:
Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET 2.(10 points)
Not long ago, technology in the home was carved up into well-defined territories: The PC - care of Microsoft, Intel, Dell, and the like - presided over the home office. The television and stereo were king and queen of the living room. These days, though, the digital revolution is shaking up that comfortable ease. (26)With the advent of MP3 music files, personal video recorders, game machines, digital cameras, and a host of other media and services, it's no longer clear who controls which bit of home floor. And that has set off a battle for dominance in home entertainment.
The shake-up covers the technology spectrum. Microsoft Corp. is spending billions on entertainment initiatives such as its X-Box video game console. Compaq Computer Corp. and HewlettPackard Co. sell MP3 music players that plug into home-stereo systems. Philips Electronics sells a stereo that hooks into a high-speed Internet connection to play music from the Web.
Consumers are getting the message. (27) Sales of many of these devices should take off this year and next: U.S. shipments of MP3 digital music players for listening to songs downloaded from the Net are expected to jump by more than 50% this year, to 7 million units, according to researchers International Data Corp. Sales of personal video recorders, such as TiVo, which let you record TV shows for later viewing, should nearly triple this year in the U.S., to 2.2 million units.
Even high-definition television(HDTV) - the durable Next Big Thing - may soon take off. (28) By the end of 2003, nearly 6 million U.S. homes should have HDTV sets, and by yearend, some 7.7 million American homes are expected to have networks to tie their digital gear together, with strong growth spurred by a new standard for wireless links called WiFi.
Call it the next big wave of technology. (29) After the PC era and the Internet Age, many consumers have grown comfortable with tech: Two-thirds of U.S. homes own PCs today, while 60%have Internet access, according to researchers Gartner Data-quest. To reach the rest of the market, technology companies need to build simpler devices that offer more entertainment. (30) And these new machines need to work together as readily as stereo components do today, and should be nearly as easy to set up and use as a telephone or a television. That is leading to the consumerization of technology over the next five to ten years. The future is about MP3 players, digital video, and the like.
Notes:
① carve up瓜分
② care of由......转交；通过......
③ console控制/操纵台/板
④ take off起飞；大受欢迎，迅速流行
【答案】
Part C
26. 随着MP3音乐文档、个人录像机、游戏机、数码照相机及许多其它媒体和服务器的问世，究竟谁会占据家庭中的哪块地盘，就很难说了。
27. 今明两年，这些电器中许多产品的销售量会急剧上升，据国际数据公司的研究人员估计，能收听从网上下载歌曲的MP3数码音乐播放机，美国今年出货预计跃升50%以上，达到700万套。
28. 到2003年末，近600万美国家庭拥有高清晰电视机，而到年终，随着称作WiFi 的无线连接新技术标准所激发的迅猛发展，预计约有770万美国家庭用网络系统把他们的数码装置联成一体。
29. 许多消费者在经历过个人电脑时代和互联网时代之后，对新技术业已应付自如；据Gartner数据调查公司的研究人员统计，现在2/3的美国家庭拥有个人电脑，而60%的家庭有互联网接口。
30. 而且，这些新机器需要像现在的立体音响部件那样容易地组合起来运行，同时它们还应该几乎像电话机或电视机一样容易安装和使用。
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