Broadly speaking, the Englishman is a quiet, shy, reserved person who is fully (21) only among people he knows well.In the presence of strangers or foreigners he often seams inhibited. (22) embarrassed. You have only to (23) a commuter train any morning or evening to see the truth of this. Serious looking businessmen and women sit reading their newspapers or dozing in a corner; no one speaks. In fact, to do so would seem most unusual. (24) , there is here an unwritten but clearly understood code of behavior which. (25) broken, makes the person immediately the object of (26) .It is a well-known fact that the English have a (27) for the discussion of their weather and that, given half a chance, they will talk about it (28) . Some people argue that it is because English weather (29) forecast and hence is a source of interest and. (30) to everyone. This may be so. (31) Englishmen cannot have much (32) in the weathermen, who, after promising fine, sunny weather for the following day, are of- ten proved wrong (33) a cloud over the Atlantic brings rainy weather to all districts! The man in the street seems to be as accurate — or as inaccurate — as the weathermen in his (34) . The overseas visitors may be excused for showing surprise at the number of references (35) weather that the English make to each other in the course of a single day. Very often conversational greetings are (36) by comments on the weather. "Nice day, isn’t it" "Beautiful!" may well be heard instead of "Good morning, how are you" (37) the foreigner may consider this exaggerated and comic, it is worthwhile pointing out that it could be used to his ad- vantage. (38) he wants to start a conversation with an Englishman but is (39) to know where to begin, he could do well to mention the state of the weather. It is a safe subject which will (40) an answer from even the most reserved of Englishmen. 36().
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D. proposed
With its 2X optical zoom lens, 3.2 megapixels and the size of a credit card, the Canon Digital Power- Shot S230 camera, introduced in September, 2002, might strike some as a marvel. But the company is bet- ting that its new target market of young white-collar women, who have not been the primary buyers of dig- ital cameras, will love the tiny wonder for its look.Inspired by companies like Nokia, which early on emphasized design in an effort to sell cellphones to the increasingly style-conscious public, camera makers, too, are now promoting their products as fashion accessories. Canon is among a growing number of manufacturers playing up not only the latest in fancy technology but also what marketers call the "cool factor", a combination of high-tech features and streamlined, compact design.In its print and television ad campaigns, the Canon PowerShot dangles from a clothes hanger. "Stain- less steel goes with everything, "the copy reads. Casio, the maker of the Exilim, has taken a similar style. Its print ads show a photo of a fashionable young woman in jeans, her compact digital protruding from her hip pocket over the slogan "No visible cameralines". Now that digital technology is no longer a novelty, Sony is also seeking a new group of consumers, mostly women in their 20’s and early 30’s. And the latest of Sony’s print ads features a shapely blonde sheathed in a clingy black dress, an ATM-car-size CyberShot U suspended like a necklace. "It looks like cool jewelry, and that’s the point," Jim Malcolm, Sony’s senior marketing manager for digital cameras, said. What are the target consumers of Digital PowerShot S230 camera()
A. Young white-collar men.
B. Middle-aged white-collar men.
C. Young white-collar women,
D. Middle-aged white-collar women.