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第1题
What does Curtis Gans think of the Internet voting?
A.It is not serious to vote by means of the Internet.
B.Internet voting is a natural behaviour just like sending an e-mail.
C.Government should make the polls easier for voters to get to.
D.Fewer and fewer people are interested in Internet voting.
第3题
Donny Deutsch emphasizes the importance of______as the key to success.
A.smartness
B.humbleness
C.diligence
D.confidence
第6题
Mayfield Electric Cooperative
Service Summary
Account number: 8237987324-CJ
Name: Curtis Holliday
Billing Date: 10/24
Due Date: 11/15
Service Dates: 09/01-10/01
Days of Service: 31
Readings
Meter Number: AS-23987498008
Current Reading: 938493
Prior Reading: 988362
Account Activity
Previous Balance $82.92
Payments $82.92
Adjustments 0.00
Balance Forward 0.00
Facility Charge $20.00
Electricity Service $98.93
Sales Tax $3.50
Power cost Adjustment $ 1.00
Public Benefits $2.50
Due Date: 11/15
Net Due $125.93
After Due Date $127.19
Sam and Luisa,
Here is the copy of the electric bill. As you can see, our usage is higher, which means we have to pay more this month. I was hoping that our electricity bill would go down after the summer because we wouldn't be using the air conditioner as much.
We all have to pay about $42 each. Please have it to me as soon as possible so I can pay.
I'd also like to have dinner sometime this week so we can discuss this. I'll make pasta or something. Let me know what day is good for you. I'm free every evening after 6 p.m.
What is the bill for?
A.Gas
B.Water
C.Internet
D.Electricity
第7题
Over the past decade, many companies had perfected the art of creating automatic behaviors-habits-among consumers. These habits have helped companies earn billions of dollars when customers eat snacks or wipe counters almost without thinking, often in response to a carefully designed set of daily cues.
"There are fundamental public health problems, like dirty hands instead of a soap habit, that remain killers only because we can't figure out how to change people's habit," said Dr. Curtis, the director the Hygiene Center at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. " We wanted to learn from private industry how to create new behaviors that happen automatically. "
The companies that Dr. Curtis turned to-Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive and Unilever-had invested hundreds of millions of dollars finding the subtle cues in consumers' lives that corporations could use to introduce new routines.
If you look hard enough, you'll find that many of the products we use every day-chewing gums, skin moisturizers, disinfecting wipes, air fresheners, water purifiers, health snacks, teeth whiteners, fabric softeners, vitamins are results of manufactured habits. A century ago, few people regularly brushed their teeth multiple times a day. Today, because of shrewd advertising and public health campaigns, many Americans habitually give their pearly whites a cavity- preventing scrub twice a day, often with Colgate, Crest or one of the other brands.
A few decades ago, many people didn't drink water outside of a meal. Then beverage companies started bottling the production of far-off springs, and now office workers unthinkingly sip bottled water all day long. Chewing gum, once bought primarily by adolescent boys, is now featured in commercials as a breath freshener and teeth cleanser for use after a meal. Skin moisturizers are advertised as part of morning beauty rituals, slipped in between hair brushing and putting on makeup.
"Our products succeed when they become part of daily or weekly patterns", said Carol Berning, a consumer psychologist who recently retired from Procter & Gamble, the company that sold $76 billion of Tide, Crest and other products last year. "Creating positive habit is a huge part of improving our consumers' lives, and it's essential to making new products commercially viable. "
Through experiments and observation, social scientists like Dr. Berning have learned that there is power in tying certain behaviors to habitual cues through ruthless advertising. As this new science of habit has emerged, controversies have erupted when the tactics have been used to sell questionable beauty creams or unhealthy foods.
According to Dr. Curtis, habits like hand washing with soap______.
A.should be further cultivated
B.should be changed gradually
C.are deeply rooted in history
D.arc basically private concern
第8题
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If you want a job of taking care of children, which ad will you answer?
A.LOST AND FOUND
B.ROOMMATES
C.FOR SALE
D.HELP WANTED
第9题
There are many other "Dutch" expressions in English, many of which were invented in Britain in the seventeenth century, when the Dutch and the English were commercial and military rivals. The British used "Dutch" to refer to something bad, cheap and sham. A "Dutch bar- gain" at that time was an uneven, one-sided deal; "Dutch reckoning" was an unitemized account; and "Dutch widow" was slang for prostitute. Later centuries brought in "Dutch courage", for bravery induced by drink; "Dutch concert", for discordant music; "Dutch nightingale", meaning a frog; and "double Dutch", for incomprehensible language, or unintelligible talk.
Some of the expressions are still in use today, but some are not. In fact, in American English, some "Dutch" expressions have nothing to do with the Dutch, but something with the Ger- man. It was probably because of the similar spelling and pronunciation that people made a mistake in distinguishing between "Dutch" and "Deutsch" (the German word for German), when German immigrants came to America in the 1700s. For instance, "the Pennsylvania Dutch" refers to the German descendants, instead of the Dutch descendants, living in Pennsylvania.
If someone invites you to dinner and says "let's go Dutch", he means ______.
A.that he'll invite you to a Dutch restaurant.
B.That he'll buy your dinner.
C.That you'll buy his dinner.
D.That you are expected to pay your own meal.