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
alexipharmacon
as merry as a lark
b.r.o.t.h.e.r
barred nebula
benzolin
burned
camera timing indicator
chickenlike
climax prairie
Collinsia parviflora
continuous mapping
continuous stocktaking system
cytherelloidea abei
deferred shares of stock
disorderly close-down
drawlink
EHG
emergency cords
error frequency
ex aequo et bono
exacted money and gifts
excitation control
Finno Ugrian
forceps base
forpit
GB (grid bias)
general goods
give a green light to
give with vocals
gum stock solutions
harmonic balance method
heavy loader
hemiexarate pupa
hemopiezometer
ice station
impetigo simplex
in grant
in-the-line service
interrupt trap
Kharal
kinky-haired
lim sup
Liparis kawakamii
luttinger
magnetic toolface angle
masseteric vein
metashale
Miller radiator
misguess
molophilus (molophilus) nigripes
moriston
movable target image processor
multispan beam
Naurskaya
osseins
over-head ground wire
pazner
Pencilfishes
per quod
phosphous
placentophagy
playlike
pod setting
polyfunctional exchanger
posole
pre-assessment
pre-experimental design
Pull in your ears neck !
quality of coded picture
raiks
re-change
realised
reducible left ideal
reggiani
reinsertion voltage
reloader
roadworn
rock and roll music
rouland
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structural rolled steel
subserous plexus
SWJ
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taking notice
tararas
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test and measurement
thermal performance test
thickness map
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transversely hinge-connected slab method
two way ring down trunk circuit
UHF ceramic capacitor
ultraintensive
unhogged
weighted market capitalization
wightin
womanishness
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zap crater