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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 According to an unpublished paper the group produced, "It is possible to use these techniques to predict not only whether people will remember and have specific emotional reactions to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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The last sentence of this passage implies that ______.

A. If the experiments' results can be applied to the practice, the customers will be very likely to buy things according to the ads.
B. If the Harvard group can succeed in finishing the research, they will use it in attracting more and more consumers into the market.
C. The financial supporting corporations such as Coca Cola. General Motors can employ the experiments in their own marketing.
D. The consumers may discover that those ads will always annoy them by jingling out of their heads and cause them headaches.

听力原文:W: How's your secretary, dear? Does she come on time?
M: Yes... well, in fact, she resigned today.
What happened to the secretary?

A. The secretary was fired.
B. The secretary was a poor typist.
C. The secretary quit her job.
D. The secretary was critical of her boss.

We can infer from the second paragraph that nowadays the children ______.

A. are very anxious about their parents for their hard work
B. are looking forward to being with their parents
C. are very considerate about their parents
D. are very ambitious to change their parents' work

Part A
Directions: You will hear 10 short dialogues. For each dialogue, there is one question and four possible answers. Choose the correct answer ― A, B, C or D, and mark it in your test booklet. You will have 15 seconds to answer the question and you will hear each dialogue ONLY ONCE.
听力原文:W: Do you tire very far from your work?
M: The distance is about 20 miles. But it doesn't seem that far. The road is good and here's not much traffic.
How does the man seem to feel about driving from his home to his work?

A. He is satisfied with driving from his home to work.
B. The distance is about 20 miles.
C. The road is good but there's a lot of traffic.
D. He lives very far from his work.

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