Cirque du Soleil officials said their top concern was______.
A. regulations against job discrimination
B. the safety of other performers and the audiences
C. doing the right thing
D. making a lot of money
What can we infer from the first three paragraphs?
A.In both East and West, names are essential to success.
B.The alphabet is to blame for the failure of Zoё Zysman.
C.Customers often pay a lot of attention to companies' names.
D.Some form. of discrimination is too subtle to recognize.
【B1】
Chinese-Americans have had three Noble【43】winners, all in physics. Many more have PhDs, especially from high【44】universities. Among academics, Asians publish more than【45】blacks or whites.
(36)
A.employed
B.employee
C.employer
D.employing
(1)至少一个周六晚上不能在家过夜的旅客才可以购买特价机票。
(2)坚持将水泥送货上门,并以购买者的住址为定价基础。
(3)销售食品加工机时附送10美元折扣的优惠券。
(4)对卫生纸提供临时促销价。
(5)给高收入病人做整形外科手术的要价高于低收入病人。
Price discrimination requires the ability to sort customers and the ability to prevent arbitrage. Explain how the following can function as price discrimination schemes and discuss both sorting and arbitrage:
a. Requiring airline travelers to spend at least one Saturday might away from home to qualify for a low fare.
b. Insisting on delivering cement to buyers, and basing prices on buyers' locations.
c. Selling food processors along with coupons that can be sent to the manufacturer to obtain a S 10 rebate.
d. Offering temporary price cuts on bathroom tissue.
e. Charging high-income patients more than low-income patients for plastic surgery.
It has long been known that a taxi firm called AAAA cars has a big advantage over Zodiac cars when customers thumb through their phone directories. Less well known is the advantage that Adam Abbott has in life over Zoë Zysman. English names are fairly evenly spread between the halves of the alphabet. Yet a suspiciously large number of top people have surnames beginning with letters between A and K.
Thus the American president and vice-president have surnames starting with B and C respectively; and 26 of George Bush’s predecessors (including his father) had surnames in the first half of the alphabet against just 16 in the second half. Even more striking, six of the seven heads of government of the G7 rich countries are alphabetically advantaged (Berlusconi, Blair, Bush, Chirac, Chrétien and Koizumi). The world’s three top central bankers (Greenspan, Duisenberg and Hayami) are all close to the top of the alphabet, even if one of them really uses Japanese characters. As are the world’s five richest men (Gates, Buffett, Allen, Ellison and Albrecht).
Can this merely be coincidence? One theory, dreamt up in all the spare time enjoyed by the alphabetically disadvantaged, is that the rot sets in early. At the start of the first year in infant school, teachers seat pupils alphabetically from the front, to make it easier to remember their names. So short-sighted Zysman junior gets stuck in the back row, and is rarely asked the improving questions posed by those insensitive teachers. At the time the alphabetically disadvantaged may think they have had a lucky escape. Yet the result may be worse qualifications, because they get less individual attention, as well as less confidence in speaking publicly.
The humiliation continues. At university graduation ceremonies, the ABCs proudly get their awards first; by the time they reach the Zysmans most people are literally having a ZZZ. Shortlists for job interviews, election ballot papers, lists of conference speakers and attendees: all tend to be drawn up alphabetically, and their recipients lose interest as they plough through them.
第46题:What does the author intend to illustrate with AAA A cars and Zodiac cars?
A A kind of overlooked inequality.
B A type of conspicuous bias.
C A type of personal prejudice.
D A kind of brand discrimination.