The superficially equalizing promise that customers everywhere can enjoy unprecedented convenience with a mere click has intensified the differences in the choices available to the rich and the poor. MacGillis describes how, while rich corporations and their top employees have settled in a small number of wealthy coastal cities, the rest of the American landscape has been deprived of opportunities. Portraying the phenomenon as a widening urban-rural divide is the simplistic version of a more subtle and bigger story, MacGillis emphasizes.
思考题：
According to MacGillis, the widening urban-rural divide is___.
A.not supported by facts
B.not an all-sided account
C.not a complex problem
D.not clear in coastal cities
词汇突破
1. superficially 肤浅地，面上的
2. equalizing 平等
3. unprecedented 无可比拟的
4. deprive 剥夺
5. urban-rural divide 城乡差距
6. simplistic 过于简单的！（这是一个贬义词）
7. subtle 微妙
8. emphasize 强调
句子解析
注：黄色是主干，红色是定语，绿色是状语，紫色是同位语，蓝色是作为灵活机动的表示
第一句：
The superficially equalizing promise that customers everywhere can enjoy unprecedented convenience with a mere click has intensified the differences in the choices available to the rich and the poor.
参考译文：表面上对于平等的承诺，即世界各地的用户只要轻轻一点就可以享受前所未有的便利，其实强化了富人和穷人选择权上的差异。
第二句：
MacGillis describes how, while rich corporations and their top employees have settled in a small number of wealthy coastal cities, the rest of the American landscape has been deprived of opportunities.
参考译文：麦克吉利斯写道，富有的企业及其高级员工定居在少数富裕的沿海城市，但美国的其他地区却成了机会的荒漠。
第三句：
Portraying the phenomenon as a widening urban-rural divide is the simplistic version of a more subtle and bigger story, MacGillis emphasizes.
参考译文：他强调，若将这一现象描述为不断扩大的城乡差距，是把一个更微妙、更宏大的叙事过分简单化了。
背景信息
要衡量亚马逊对美国人生活的影响有无数种方法。注册亚马逊高级会员的人数比上次大选中给任何候选人的投票数量都要多：超过1亿。美国人线上购物的支出有一半都被亚马逊收入囊中。
非盈利性组织Pro Publica的记者麦克吉利斯认为，以亚马逊为代表的互联网企业的崛起表面上让所有人都有了更多的选择，实际上极大地加深了既有的贫富差距，也令美国内部的区域不平等愈加严重。
1969年，30个人均收入最高的都市区域包括底特律、克利夫兰和其他三个中西部城市。2019年，这个单子上只有两个中西部城市：芝加哥和明尼阿波里斯，其他的均为沿海城市。
即使在发达的沿海城市，区域间的贫富差距也极大，上涨的房价和可负担住房的紧缺令西雅图成为全美流浪汉数量排名第三的城市。
