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The golf balls were sent back to che manufacturer because_______________.
A.the distributor was ignorant of the symbolic meaning of numbers
B.the golfer wanted them to be repackaged
C.the manufacturer didn’t consider the quantity of items when packaging
D.the distributor was not able to sell them all
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更多“The golf balls were sent back to che manufacturer because_______________.A.the distributor”相关的问题
A．They were sent to wrong places.
B．They were not properly packaged.
C．Four was considered equal to death.
D．The quality of the golf balls was poor.
听力原文： Major cultural differences in selling techniques include the relationship between the salesman and the customer. As an expert advises his colleagues, "In many foreign countries, personal relationships are more important than company regulations and products. Developing relationships takes time, but it is decisive to the selling process."
International trade fairs have become extremely important places for conducting business, yet very few domestic sales organizations understand how to take advantage of the opportunities that these shows present. Unlike U.S. trade shows, at which there is an open display of one's goods and services and a lot of looking but not buying, a European trade show is relatively closed and only open to those who are there to conduct business.
In some societies, the first thing people care about is quality; in other societies, the first thing on a customer's mind is the cost; and in other countries, the concern is style. The color, size, and quantity of items need to be considered in packaging any product. The color blue is for funerals in some countries, smaller items are preferred over large items, and the number of items in a package can be critical. For example, a golf ball company packaged their golf balls in groups of four and then sent 50,000 units to their Asian distributor who promptly sent them all back, advising the company to package the golf balls again in packages of three. In many of the countries where the golf balls were to be sent, the number four was considered as being equal to death whereas the number three is the symbol of long life.
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A．Get down to business first.
B．Develop relationships.
C．Call each potential customer.
D．Hold trade fairs.
阅读材料，回答题。
My father was a foreman of a sugar-cane plantation in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. My first jobwas to drive the oxen that plowed the cane fields. I would walk behind an ox, guiding him with abroomstick. For $1 a day, I worked eight hours straight, with no food breaks.
It was very tediou work, but it prepared me for life and taught me many lasting lessons. Be-cause the plantation owners were always watching us, I had to be on time every day and work ashard as I could. I&39; ve never been late for any job since. I also learned about being respectful andloyal to the people you work for.. More important, I earned my pay.
I was only six years old, but I was doing a man&39; s job. Our family needed every dollar wecould make because my father never earned more than $18 a week. Our home was a three-roomwood shack with dirty floor and no toilet. Nothing made me prouder than bringing home money tohelp my mother, father, two brothers and three sisters. This gave me self-esteem, one of the mostimportant things a person can have.
When I was seven, I got work at a golf course near our house. My job was to stand down thefairway and spot the balls as they landed so the golfers could find them. Losing a ball meant youwere fired, so I never miss one. Some nights I would lie in bed and dream of making thousands ofdollars playing golf and being able to buy a bicycle.
The more I dreamed, the more I thought. Why not？ I made my first golf club out of guavalimb and a piece of pipe. Then I hammered an empty tin can into the shape of a ball. And finallyI dug two small holes in the ground and hit the ball back and forth. I practiced with the same devo-tion and intensity I learned working in the field--except now I was driving golf balls with club, notoxen with a broomstick.
What was the writer‘ s first job？ 查看材料
A.To stand down the fairway at a golf course
B.To spot the balls as they landed so the golfers could find them
C.To drive the oxen that plowed the cane fields
D.To watch the sugar-cane plantation
A. Golf balls
B. Golf clubs
C. Golf bats
D.无
The example of golf ball shows that ______.
A．the golf hall manufacturer is ignorant
B．the number of items in a package can be crucial to the selling process
C．the number of golf balls in each package is more important than the quality of the product actually
D．both B and C
Section D
Have you ever thought about inventing something？ Were you worried that your idea was too strange or unrealistic？ Well, maybe you should think again.
Strange and unrealistic ideas never stopped Arthur Pedrick. Pedrick was a British inventor. Originally a government clerk, he spent his retirement in the 1960s and 1970s developing new and unusual ideas. Some of these ideas contradicted basic physics, but that didn’t stop Pedrick. One of his strangest ideas was a plan to connect Australia and Antarctica using large tubes, a distance of 10, 000 km! These tubes were designed to carry giant ice balls from Antarctica to Australia. The ice would then melt in the Australian desert, and the water would be used for irrigation. Another of Pedrick’s inventions was a radio-controlled golf ball. A golfer could change the speed and direction of the golf ball using small flaps attached to the ball, which could be controlled by computer chips. Using radio waves, golfers could also find their lost golf balls. Arthur Pedrick had thousands of bizarre ideas for inventions, most of which were never constructed.
Though many of Pedrick’s inventions were never developed, a lot of other strange ideas have been. In 1989, a company designed and sold a theft-prevention device for expensive cars. As part of this device, several tubes were attached to the bottom of a car. If someone tried to steal the car, super hot flames were emitted from the tubes and burned the car thief. Some people who were not thieves, however, were seriously injured by this device which they accidentally set off by walking past the car.
Other strange inventions include underwear for dogs and pens with drinkable ink. The underwear keeps dogs from making a mess when they go out for a walk. Also if you were ever thirsty during a test, a pen with drinkable ink would be very handy!
If you have an idea that seems a little out in left field, don’t let that stop you from trying it. You' 11 be in good company.
Summary:
Most inventions are for useful things that help people in everyday life. Some inventions, however , are just【46】Some of the world’s weirdest ideas for inventions came from a man named Arthur Pedrick. Pedrick’s inventions included irrigation【47】that would carry ice from Antarctica to Australia and【48】golf balls. Not all weird inventions came from Pedrick, however. Every year many people【49】products that could be【50】unusual. Things like underwear for dogs and pens with drinkable ink are good examples.
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The writer's first job was______.
A．to stand down the fairway at a golf course
B．to watch over the sugar-cane plantation
C．to drive the oxen that ploughed the cane fields
D．to spot the balls as they landed so the golfers could find them
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Refer to Figure 4-4. Which of the following movements would illustrate the effect in the market for golf balls of an increase in green fees？
A、Point A to Point B
B、Point C to Point B
C、Point C to Point D
D、Point A to Point D
？Read the extract of an article below about product promotion.
？In most of the lines 34-45 there is one extra word. It is either grammatically incorrect or does not fit in with the sense of the text. Some lines, however, are correct.
？If a line is correct, write CORRECT.
？If there is an extra word in the line, write the extra word in CAPITAL LETTERS.
Choosing the Right Promotional Product Can Attract Buzz
34. be motivated by it. while another group will see it as something which they
35. can use it to re-gift to someone else, And unless your product ends up in the
36. hands of the person you intended to, the influence over their behavior. you
37. were hoping to leverage is completely lost. "It's got to have lasting value
38. and that doesn't necessarily mean a high cost. "says a client. 'I've got a
39. flashlight at home that use every time when the power goes out and it's still
40. got the name of the company that gave it to me on it. 'Size is also a factor. If
41. most of your attendees are within their driving distance of your event then
42. you can give them something so big because it's not going to be a problem
43. to take home. But if the majority of attendees have been flown in. then a
44. smaller, more portable item would be a better bet. High-quality T-shirts. the
45. latest high-tech mouse pad or a few high-end golf balls may be fit the bill.
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There is usually a price for pleasure so mindless. In the case of TV golf, it is listening to the commentators analyze the players’ swings. What looks to you like a single, continuous, and not difficult act is revealed, via slow motion and a sort of virtual-chalkboard graphics, to be a sequence of intricately measured adjustments of shoulder to hip, head to arm, elbow to wrist, and so on. Where you see fluidity, the experts see geometry; what to you is nature is machinery to them—parallel lines, extended planes, points of impact. They murder to examine. Yet, apparently, these minutes and individualized measurements make all the difference between being able reliably to land a golf ball in an area, three hundred yards away, the size of a bathmat and, say, randomly hitting a car, which, let’s face it, only a fool would drive right next to a golf course. There is a major disproportion, in other words, between the straightforwardness of the game and the fantastic precision required to play it, a disproportion mastered by a difficult but, to the ordinary observer, almost invisible technique.
Short stories are the same. A short story is not as restrictive as a sonnet, but, of all the literary forms, it is possibly the most single-minded. Its aim, as it was identified by the modern genre’s first theorist, Edgar Allan Poe, is to create “an effect”—by which Poe meant something almost physical, like a sensation or an extreme excitement.
第31题：The author quotes his own experience with golf to show that _____.
［A］ things are often not so simple and easy as they seem
［B］ his experience with golf has been a frustrating failure
［C］ that experience of his offered much for his later life
［D］ apparent truths are more often than not unreliable
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