As a widely-adopted speech making device, the elevator pitch may benefit a variety of people EXCEPT ________.A.politiciansB.insurance agentsC.project managersD.doctors

Why are researches on parrots important according to the passage?

A. The Trust shows great concern for the programme.

B. We need to know more about how to preserve parrots.

C. Many people are interested in collecting parrots.

D. Parrots’ intelligence may some day benefit people.

When it comes to placing an interest hook in your elevator pitch and making it more contagious, you should speak proudly about your story as the listener is experiencing it.()

A

Many people have to work on the weekend. Some people do not mind. Other people think it is terrible.

One man thinks that working on the weekend can be dangerous. He is Graham Coates. Mr. Coates worked in an office in Brighton, England.

On Saturday, May 24, 1986, he went to the office to do some work. When he got in the elevator to go home, it stopped between floors. Mr. Coates could not get out of the elevator. He was trapped（困住了）! He started to shout, but no one heard him. Then Mr. Coates remembered that it was a holiday in England. No one was going to come to work until Tuesday!

There was nothing for Mr. Coates to do. He had to wait until one his coworkers came to work and found him. With nothing to eat or drink, Mr. Coates ended up sleeping for most of the time.

Early on Tuesday morning, the vice president of the company came into work and found the elevator was not working. When the elevator was opened, Mr. Coates came out cold, weak, and tired. He had been in the elevator for sixty-two hours!

Now Mr. Coates says, “I only uses elevators if they have telephones in them.”

36. Mr. Coates could not get out of the elevator because ______.

A. it was broken B. it was a weekend

C. it was a holiday D. it stopped on a wrong floor

You may get consumers who want very high quality services satisfied, but at a higher price. And the people who want no-frills service and cheap product will also get it at the other end of the market. So competition allows a range of variety to occur in a market. The benefit to society of competition is that it makes a major contribution to the fundamental economic issue, which is the scarcity of productive resources. It means that on the production side, there is maximum pressure to conserve the use of those scarce productive resources. On the demand side it also rations consumer demand appropriately, and it also tends to mean that the variety of consumer needs can be met.

1. From the first paragraph of the passage we can know that usually there are ()kinds of consumers who may get satisfied in a market.

A. two

B. three

C. four

2. What does “it” in the first sentence of paragraph 2 refer to()

A. fundamental economic issue

B. the scarcity of productive resources

C. The benefit of competition

3. The sentence in paragraph 1“So competition allows a range of variety to occur in a market” means ().

A. competition makes the market supply various products and services

B. competition makes a lot of things occur in a market

C. competition makes different things occur in a market

4. On the demand side competition also ()appropriately.

A. meets consumer needs

B. makes consumer rational

C. makes consumer satisfied

5. The best title of this passage is ().

A. Fundamental Economic Issue

B. The Benefit of Competition

C. Consumer Demand and Market

Which of the following statements about the elevator pitch are true?

A.It must grab the audience’s attention.

B.It is a well-structured concise speech.

C.It starts with some common concerns and ends up with an interesting hook.

D.It should arouse the listener’s further actions that the speaker wants.

According to the principles or the six key points proposed by Harvard Business School to judge the quality of an elevator pitch, it may be inferred that the example given in lesson five could be a defective one.()

An elevator pitch or named elevator speech or statement refers to such a talk as a speaker, like a salesman, tries to present a valuable idea to the listener in an elevator.()

A、before

B、during

C、after

Afunctional variety is a variety of a language spoken by people living in an area.()

A)except

B)except for

C)except to

D)except that