时间:2018-11-29 作者:英语课 分类:英语专业四级听写


英语课

Passage 8

Display of Goods

Are supermarkets designed to persuade us to buy more?

Fresh fruit and vegetables are displayed near supermarket entrances. This gives the impression that only healthy food is sold in the shop. Basic foods that everyone buys, like sugar and tea, are not put near each other. They are kept in different aisles 1 so customers are taken past other attractive 2 foods before they find what they want. In this way, shoppers are encouraged to buy products that they do not really need.

Sweets are often placed at children’s eye level at the checkout 3. While parents are waiting to pay, children reach for the sweets and put them in the trolley 4.

More is bought from a fifteen-foot display of one type of product than from a ten-foot one. Customers also buy more when shelves are full than when they are half empty. They do not like to buy from shelves with few products on them because they feel there is something wrong with those products that are there. (166 words)



1 aisles
n. (席位间的)通道, 侧廊
  • Aisles were added to the original Saxon building in the Norman period. 在诺曼时期,原来的萨克森风格的建筑物都增添了走廊。
  • They walked about the Abbey aisles, and presently sat down. 他们走到大教堂的走廊附近,并且很快就坐了下来。
2 attractive
adj.有吸引力的;引起注意的
  • Bright colours are attractive to children.鲜艳的颜色对儿童有吸引力。
  • The food has an attractive taste.这食品的味道很诱人。
3 checkout
n.(超市等)收银台,付款处
  • Could you pay at the checkout.你能在结帐处付款吗。
  • A man was wheeling his shopping trolley to the checkout.一个男人正推着购物车向付款台走去。
4 trolley
n.手推车,台车;无轨电车;有轨电车
  • The waiter had brought the sweet trolley.侍者已经推来了甜食推车。
  • In a library,books are moved on a trolley.在图书馆,书籍是放在台车上搬动的。
学英语单词
Acanthopodina
acquisition of shell
ahermatypic
air break disconnecting switch (abds)
air-water valve
all-high
aminobenzoic acids
Bandar Khomeini
batter car
bilineatus
bituminous distributor
bladder infections
bus control chip
c(a)espitose plant
cantilever erection method
cardinal tetra
Caroline Ra.
categories of groups
CCS
centre boiler
Chietla
chlorizating
cholestadienone
chondralgia
close out sale
collector-ring lead
community centre
complex hilbert space
coniism
copal ester
crystal notation
Dagomba
dambrod pattern
Direct Diazo Black BH
etched zinc plate
etching condition
fanhole
for the time to come
force of mortality
general agents
God's medicine
grazing fire
Gyrus postcentralis
head-roping
kelletts
L. L. R.
La Chapelle-Basse-Mer
laser imagery recorder
lavendul
lever-operated valve
linear-measuring instrument
macadamed
macrochromosome
mechra belqsiri (mechra al ksiri)
meganopteron poshihi
moist clay
Myriophyllum alterniflorum
net working capital turnover
nominal rate of the spring
non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug
obreptions
oceanaria
on-timer
Orient Bay
osmunda biformis makino
Osteoform
osterie
overexquisite
pairled
panama, isthmus of
park-baseds
play-pens
portogra
power bay
primary moment
profluous
Prokofiev
R1
radioactive air contamination monitor
radiohumeral
regional meteorological office
release program device operation
resistance cyst
routledges
royal optimizing assembly routine (roar)
run time debug symbol table
sectional floating dock
self consistency
servo circuit
Sigmund Freud
smo(u)lder
SNPP
sperm counting
SSBG
sympatheticotonus
thesaurer
timimi
Tleta Sidi Bouguedra
Totland
towel rails
tripe de roche
volage