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.
供选择的答案：
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】
参考译文：应用程序的开发越来越多地意味着Windows的开发。直观化的开发工具的流行紧随着Windows本身的普及而发展。这些工具能生成漂亮的窗口式接口，其快速开发周期和易于学习的过程使它们成为多种PC开发项目的良好选择。今天的开发人员正利用这些工具和大量廉价而功能强有和PC机把力量的平衡移到台式机上。
随着世界坚定地朝着Windows和其他图形用户接口转移，开发人员可以在大量的面向直观化的工具中进行选择。流行的例子包括Microsoft公司的Visual Basic、Powersoft公司的Power Builder, Gupta技术公司的SQL Windows等。
【答案】A：② B：① C：③ D：④ E：①
