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What have they ordered?

A. Pizza, chicken salad and iced water.
B. Soup, hamburger and cola.
C. Sandwich and red wine.
D. Spaghetti, coffee, Coke and iced water.

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Which of the following is not true according to the passage?

A. Sometimes people will conceal what they think when being questioned by the market researchers.
B. Stephen Kosslyn and Gerald Zaltman overlook the experiments and criticize the purpose of the study.
C. Harvard researchers have found the corresponding relations between people's brain and behavior.
D. There are many large organizations endorsing and financing the Harvard group's further investigations.

听力原文:M: It was the third time Ranger had phoned me to say that he had a new job.
W: It's difficult to keep a young man in one job for life nowadays.
What does the woman mean?

A. Young people are too quick in making decisions.
B. Young people seldom stay long on the same job.
C. Young people lose their jobs easily.
D. Young people are too eager to succeed.

听力原文:M: I have never seen that animal before. What is it?
W: It's a polar bear. it's been here for two years.
Where does the conversation most probably take place?

At the North Pole.
B. In the zoo.
C. On the street.
D. In the woman's house.

Now, in a way, that is possible. At the "Mind of the Market" laboratory at Harvard Business School, researchers are looking inside shoppers' skulls to develop more effective advertisements and marketing pitches. Using imaging techniques that measure blood flow to various parts of the brain, the Harvard team hopes to predict how consumers will react to particular products and to discover the most effective ways to present information. Stephen Kosslyn, a professor of psychology at Harvard, and business school professor Gerald Zaltman, oversee the lab. "The goal is not to manipulate people's preferences," says Kosslyn, "just to speak to their actual desires." The group's findings, though still preliminary, could radically change how firms develop and market new products.
The Harvard group use position emission tomography (PET) scans to monitor the brain activity. These PET scans, along with other non-invasive imaging techniques, enable researchers to see which parts of the brain are active during specific tasks (such as remembering a word). Correlations have been found between blood flow to specific areas and future behavior. Because of this, Harvard researchers believe the scans can also predict future purchasing patterns. According to an unpublished paper the group produced, "It is possible to use these techniques to predict not only whether people will remember and have specific emotional reactions to certain materials, but also whether they will be inclined to want those materials months later."
The Harvard group is now moving into the next stage of experiments. They will explore how people remember advertisements as part of an effort to predict how they will react to a product after having seen an ad. The researchers believe that once key areas of the brain are identified, scans on about two dozen volunteers will be enough to draw conclusions about the reactions of specific segments of the population. Large corporations including Coca Cola, Eastman Kodak, General Motors, and Hallmark - have already signed up to fund further investigations.
For their financial support, these firms gain access to the experiments but cannot control them. If Kosslyn and Zaltman and their team really can read the mind of the market, then consumers may find it even harder to get those advertising jingles-out of their heads.
Which of the following statements can be the best title for this passage?

A. Reading the Mind of the Market
B. Controlling the Consumers' Preferences
C. Improving the Styles of Advertising
D. Finding Out the Way to Predict

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