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Extensive research has shown
that the effects of short-term price promotions on sales are themselves Lineshort-term.Companies’ hopes that (5)promotions might have a positive aftereffect have not been borne out for reasons that researchers have been able to identify.A price promotion entices only a brand’s (10)long-term or “loyal” customers; people seldom buy an unfamiliar brand merely because the price is reduced.They simply avoid paying more than they have to when one of (15)their customary brands is temporar- ily available at a reduced price.A price promotion does not increase the number of long-term customers of a brand, as it attracts virtually (20)no new customers in the first place. Nor do price promotions have linger- ing aftereffects for a brand, even negative ones such as damage to a brand’s reputation or erosion of (25)customer loyalty, as is often feared. So why do companies spend so
much on price promotions?Clearly price promotions are generally run at a loss, otherwise there would (30)be more of them.And the bigger the increase in sales at promotion prices, the bigger the loss.While short-term price promotions can have legitimate uses, such as (35)reducing excess inventory, it is the recognizable increase in sales that is their main attraction to manage- ment, which is therefore reluctant to abandon this strategy despite
its effect on the bottom line.
Q6:
It can be inferred from the passage that if a company ceased to run short-term price promotions for a particular product, an effect of this change would be to
- reduce excess inventory of the product
- lose some of the product’s long-term customers
- reduce the product’s overall sales
- inhibit growth in the number of the product’s customers
答案为C 问题中的cease to do 我理解为停下来去做某事(同stop to do) .而答案显然是相反的,问题是问停下这事 请问大家知道还有哪些词的用法和stop to do 一样吗 考试时理解错了 答案可就差十万八千里了 谢谢大家
Q6:
It can be inferred from the passage that if a company ceased to run short-term price promotions for a particular product, an effect of this change would be to
- reduce excess inventory of the product
- lose some of the product’s long-term customers
- reduce the product’s overall sales
- inhibit growth in the number of the product’s customers
答案为C 问题中的cease to do 我理解为停下来去做某事(同stop to do) .而答案显然是相反的,问题是问停下这事 请问大家知道还有哪些词的用法和stop to do 一样吗 考试时理解错了 答案可就差十万八千里了 谢谢大家
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