Application development increasingly means Windows development, and the popularity of visual development tools has { A } in tandem with Windows itself. These tools create beautiful windowing { B } , and their fast development cycles and easy learning curves make them a good { C } for many types of PC development projects. Today's developers are leveraging these tools and the abundance of cheap, powerful PCs to shift the balance of power to the desking.

　　As the world moves inexorably toward Windows and other { D }user interfaces, developers can choose from an abundance of { E } oriented tools. Popular examples in clude Microsoft Corp's Visual Basic, Powersoft Corp's PowerBuilder, Gupta Technology Corp's SQL Windows, and so on.

　　供選擇的答案：

　　A：①rise ②risen ③rised ④rising

　　B：①interfaces ②pictures ③graphs ④books

　　C：①choose ②selections ③choice ④select

　　D：①graphics ②graph ③graphitic ④graphical

　　E：①visually ②lively ③quickly ④specially

　　【解析】

　　參考譯文：應用程序的開發越來越多地意味著Windows的開發。直觀化的開發工具的流行緊隨著Windows本身的普及而發展。這些工具能生成漂亮的窗口式接口，其快速開發周期和易于學習的過程使它們成為多種PC開發項目的良好選擇。今天的開發人員正利用這些工具和大量廉價而功能強有和PC機把力量的平衡移到臺式機上。

　　隨著世界堅定地朝著Windows和其他圖形用戶接口轉移，開發人員可以在大量的面向直觀化的工具中進行選擇。流行的例子包括Microsoft公司的Visual Basic、Powersoft公司的Power Builder, Gupta技術公司的SQL Windows等。

　　【答案】A：② B：① C：③ D：④ E：①