| Shopping has always been something of
an impulse activity, in which objects that catch our fancy while strolling are
immediately bought on a whim. Advertisers and sellers have taken advantage of
this fact, carefully positioning inexpensive but attractive items on paths that
we are most likely to cross, hoping that our human nature will lead to a greater
profit for them. With the dawn of the Internet and its exploding use across the
world, the same tactics apply. Advertisers now place "banners", links to commercial web sites decorated with attractive pictures designed to catch our eyes while browsing the webs, on key web sites with heavy traffic. They pay top dollar for the right, thus creating profits for the hosting web site as well. These actions are performed in the hopes that during the course of our casual and leisurely web surf A. has taken the place of more traditional methods of advertising. B. is one of the most effective ways to make profits on the web. C. is paralleling advertising methods in traditional business settings. D. seeks to tempt customers through impulse shopping methods. [单项选择]Beauty has always been regarded as something praiseworthy. Almost everyone thinks attractive people are happier and healthier, have better marriages and have more respectable occupations. Personal consultants give them better advice of finding jobs. Even judges are softer on attractive defendants. But in executive circle, beauty can become a liability.
While attractiveness is a positive factor for a man on his way up the executive ladder, it is harmful to a woman. Handsome male executives were perceived as having more integrity than plainer men; effort and ability were thought to account for their success. Attractive female executives were considered to have less integrity than unattractive ones; their success was attributed not to ability but to factors such as luck. All unattractive women executives were thought to have more integrity and to be more capable than the attractive female executives. Interestingly, though, the rise of the unattractive overnight A. A．1,) most probably means ______. disadvantageB. instabilityC. unfortuneD. burden [单项选择]
Oceanography has always been regarded as the science of our oceans mixing geology, biology, chemistry, and physics to unveil the secrets of our seas. Scientists once defined oceanography as "the application of all sciences to the study of the sea". Before the nineteenth century, very few scientists showed an interest in the sea. Newton, a well-known scientist, explored some aspects of it theoretically in his works at one time, but later he was unwilling to have a further study on it. 我来回答: 提交
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