第1题
来源:大陆
话题分类:Sociology 属性:小范围核心预测
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标题:reward power
定义:指经理能够通过回报来影响员工的工作效率的能力。虽然掌握更多的公司资源可以帮助经理提高reward power, 但是也可以用creative 的方式影响员工的工作效率
听力要点
【听力】
例子:Kris 是一家造纸公司的销售团队的组长。该公司一般会通过举行party 来激励员工,虽然他不能掌控party 的预算,但是他知道员工需要被认可,于是1, 给月度最佳销售拍照并挂在墙上。2,写信祝贺他们取得的成就。这两种方式并不花钱,但是很好的激励了员工。
第2题
来源:大陆
话题分类:Business 属性:小范围核心预测
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标题:create grouping
定义:group the items in a new way in order to increase the sales
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例子:The professor uses watch as an example to illustrate this concept. He said that in the past, watches are seen as expensive and luxury jewelry, always use gems or expensive metal to make watches and people are willing to pay big money on them. One company started to make watches, they use plastic materials instead of metal, and they made their watches fun and fashion, people will pay less money to get a watch like that and it also changed the way people buy it, instead of just buy one watch a time, people are more tend to buy several watches a time cuz they are cheap.
第3题
来源:大陆
话题分类:Psychology 属性:小范围核心预测
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标题: You too fallacy
定义:When you give other people suggestions or advices, they will think it is completely useless and ignore you when the suggestions or advices are not in accordance with theirs, despite the fact that such suggestions or advices may be very useful objectively.
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例子:The professor uses his brother’s example to illustrate this. His brother recently told the professor that he was lack of energy. The thing is his brother was eating sugary food junk food, in want of vegetables and nutritious food. The professor suggested his brother eat vegetables and keep healthy and balanced diet, which is scientifically proved to be a good way to regain energy. But his brother just regards this suggestion as stupid and silly one and he will never change his eating habit, for he thinks that the professor himself eats junk food also.
第4题
来源:大陆
话题分类:Plant 属性:小范围核心预测
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标题:Floral Robbing
定义:某些生物吃了果实而没有帮助其传播花粉,因此剥夺了其传播机会的现象。
听力要点
【听力】
例子:rocket flower 是一种有很长的tube, 而且sweet nectar 的花。Humming bird 和bee 同时会吃其nectar, 因为前者有long beak 就会伸到tube 里面 同时会触碰到其pollen, 并帮助传播花粉;而bee 只能在花朵的底部咬开一个洞,并不会接触到pollen,因此只是享有了nectar, 而没有帮助传播花粉。
第5题
来源:大陆
话题分类:Psychology 属性:小范围核心预测
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标题:egocentric thinking in the children
定义:小孩子会觉得别人眼里看到的世界和他们看到的是一样的。
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【听力】
例子:实验者把一个小朋友带到房间的前面,他让孩子看房间里面,那里有一个红色的娃娃,然后让一个researcher背对着房间,那里只有一面墙,实验者问小男孩你觉得那个researcher能看到什么,小朋友说他能看到一个红色的娃娃。因为他觉得researcher看到的应该和他看到的一样。