第1题
来源:大陆
话题分类:School Arrangement 属性:小范围核心预测
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标题:Notice on policy change in room transfer requirements
变化:将原来的学期初接受调换寝室请求改为开学5周后。
原因1:学生中心学期初的事务太多。
原因2:给已经确定寝室的学生一个好的环境。
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态度:赞成
原因1:学期初的时间应该留给工作人员处理higher priority 的事务。
原因2:总会有很多move-in and move out, 很干扰学习,而学期初的学业表现很重要。
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:Nudge Marketing
定义:To gently push customers toward buying a product by using indirect cue or signal.
听力要点
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例子:A grocery store wants to persuade customers to buy more fresh vegetables. They first put up a big poster to meet their end. However, their customers didn’t respond. Then they spare a section in their carts and put it in green color so as to remind customers eat more vegetables. The customers turned out to fill it up with more vegetables and the grocery store made a bigger profit.
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:consensus bias
定义:People will think that the rest of the world will think and behave like themselves.
听力要点
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例子:experiment: ask some students if they’re willing to go into a crowded but quiet library, and sit sown ,starting to talk to themselves loudly, could be any topic, silly ones, like maybe talk about ice cream. Some students said they r willing to do so, others refused immediately. Then the next question is “what do you think others will do?” The student who said yes will also think other students will say yes, and students who refused to do so also consider other students will refuse this silly action.
第4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:Constrained Risks
定义:人们喜欢享受那些看似真实的危险,因为他们直到这些危险不会对他们造成伤害,他们只是喜欢体验刺激的感觉。
听力要点
【听力】
例子: 教授提到了辛辣食物,特别是Chilly Pepper。教授说人们喜欢吃辛辣的食物,尽管他们的舌头会有灼热感,会感到很痛苦,但是他们直到这些感觉都会过去,不是真的。因此他们很享受。教授还说,一个最新的调查显示,那些喜欢吃辛辣食物的人们,当食物越为辛辣,他们越是感到刺激。
第5题
来源:大陆
话题分类:Animal 属性:小范围核心预测
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标题:Stimulates Discrimination
定义:Animals respond to sounds and noises known as stimuli created by the environment, they have developed capacity to distinguish the stimuli as to whether or not they are dangerous is known as stimulates discrimination.
听力要点
【听力】
例子:Professor used an example of seal, it is an animal threatened by whales. However, only one type of whale will eat seal, the other types eat fish. The whales make rather slightly different noises that can be distinguished by seals. Whether the seal is about to run for its life depends on the noise it hears. The type of whale that eats seal makes a simple anonymous sound with one note, when the seal hears it, it will run away. The other type of whales that pray on fish make a complex sound, when the seal hears it, it will continue eating rather than wasting energy and time on running.