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Passage Two
Dr. Allen Hersh designs smells for businesses.
He says that it doesn’t take a whole lot of smell to affect you.
Store owners can lure you to the candy aisle, even if you don’t realize
your are smelling candy. This idea scares a lot of people.
Groups that protect the rights of shoppers are upset.
They say the stores are using a kind of brainwashing
which they call “smell-washing”. “It’s pretty dishonest,” says Mark Silbergeld.
He runs an organization that checks out products for consumers.
The scientists hired to design the scents disagree.
“There’s soft background music. There’s special lighting.
There’re all sorts of bells being used,” says Dr. Hersh, “why not smells?”
“One reason why not,” says Silbergeld, “is that some people are allergic
to certain scents pumped into products or stores.”
But there is a whole other side to this debate, “do the smells really work?”
So far, there is little proof one way or the other.
But Dr. Hersh has run some interesting experiments.
In one of Hersh’s experiments, 31 volunteers were led into a shoe store
that smells slightly like flowers. Later, another group shopped
in the same store, but with no flower odor. Dr. Hersh found that
84% of the shoppers were more likely to buy the shoes
in the flower-scented room, but Hersh found out something even stranger.
“Whether the volunteers like the flower scent or not didn’t matter,” Hersh says,
“Some reported that they hated the smell,
but they still were more likely to buy the shoes in the scented room.”
Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.
Q29. Why are some people against the use of smells to attract customers?
Q30. What is Dr. Hersh’s attitude to the use of smells for business?
Q31. What did Hersh’s experiment show?
Passage Three
This is Ray McCarthy with the news. Reports are coming in
of a major train crash in Japan. A passenger train
carrying hundreds of workers home from the center of Tokyo
is reported to have hit an oncoming goods train.
Both were traveling at high speed. Figures are not yet available
but it is believed that the death toll could be as high as 300,
with hundreds more injured. Emergency and rescue services
rushed to the scene. But our reporter says
it will take days to clear the track and
to establish the numbers of the dead and injured.
There was a similar accident on the same stretch of track four years ago.
There was another bomb scare in a large London store last night
during late night shopping. Following a telephone call to the police
from an anonymous caller, hundreds of shoppers were shepherded
out of the store while roads in the area were sealed off.
Police dogs spent hours searching the store for a bag
which the caller claimed contained 50 pounds of explosives.
Nothing was found and the store was given the all-clear
by opening time this morning. A police spokesman said that
this was the third bomb scare within a week and that
we should all be on our guard.
And finally, the motoring organizations have issued a warning
to drivers following the recent falls of snow in many parts of the country.
Although the falls may be slight, they say extra care is needed.
Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
Q32: What accident happened recently in Japan?
Q33: What do the reports say about the recent accident in Japan?
Q34: Why did people have to leave the London store last night?
Q35: What did motoring organizations advise drivers to do?
| 重点单词 | 查看全部解释 | |||
| avoid | [ə'vɔid] | 联想记忆 | ||
| rescue | ['reskju:] | 联想记忆 | ||
| spread | [spred] | |||
| spare | [spɛə] | |||
| optimistic | [.ɔpti'mistik] | |||
| affected | [ə'fektid] | 联想记忆 | ||
| theoretical | [θiə'retikəl] | |||
| understand | [.ʌndə'stænd] | |||
| sponsor | ['spɔnsə] | |||
| communicate | [kə'mju:nikeit] | 联想记忆 |
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