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Over the past decade, many companies had perfected the art of creating automatic behaviors— habits — among consumers. These habi

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问题     Over the past decade, many companies had perfected the art of creating automatic behaviors— habits — among consumers. These habits have helped companies earn billions of dollars when customers eat snacks or wipe counters almost without thinking, often in response to a carefully designed set of daily cues.
    "There are fundamental public health problems, like hand washing with soap, that remain killers only because we can’t figure out how to change people’s habits," said Dr. Curtis, the director of the Hygiene Center at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. "We wanted to learn from private industry how to create new behaviors that happen automatically."
    The companies that Dr. Curtis turned to—Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive and Unilever— had invested hundreds of millions of dollars finding the subtle cues in consumers’ lives that corporations could use to introduce new routines.
    If you look hard enough, you’ll find that many of the products we use every day—chewing gums, skin moisturizers, disinfecting wipes, air fresheners, water purifiers, health snacks, antiperspirants, colognes, teeth whiteners, fabric softeners, vitamins — are results of manufactured habits. A century ago, few people regularly brushed their teeth multiple times a day. Today, because of shrewd advertising and public health campaigns, many Americans habitually give their pearly whites a cavity-preventing scrub twice a day, often with Colgate, Crest or one of the other brands.
    A few decades ago, many people didn’t drink water outside of a meal. Then beverage companies started bottling the production of far-off springs, and now office workers unthinkingly sip bottled water all day long. Chewing gum, once bought primarily by adolescent boys, is now featured in commercials as a breath freshener and teeth cleanser for use after a meal. Skin moisturizers are advertised as part of morning beauty rituals, slipped in between hair brushing and putting on makeup.
    "Our products succeed when they become part of daily or weekly patterns," said Carol Berning, a consumer psychologist who recently retired from Procter & Gamble, the company that sold $76 billion of Tide, Crest and other products last year. "Creating positive habits is a huge part of improving our consumers’ lives, and it’s essential to making new products commercially viable."
    Through experiments and observation, social scientists like Dr. Berning have learned that there is power in tying certain behaviors to habitual cues through relentless advertising. As this new science of habit has emerged, controversies have erupted when the tactics have been used to sell questionable beauty creams or unhealthy foods.
Bottled water, chewing gum and skin moisturizers are mentioned in Paragraph 5 so as to______.
选项 A、reveal their impact on people’ habits
B、show the urgent need of daily necessities
C、indicate their effect on people’ buying power
D、manifest the significant role of good habits
答案A
解析 本题所提到的bottled water,chewing gun and skin moisturizers和上一段最后一句提到的Colgate，Crest同样都是例证。显然作者意欲通过多条例证证明一个观点，根据我们对事例分析题的解题思路，要证明的观点位于事例(如果有多条例证，就是第一个事例)的前一句话：If you look hard enough，you’ll find that many of the products we use every day are results of manufactured habits．。本句大意为：如果你认真观察，你会发现我们每天使用的许多产品都是被制造的习惯。由此可见bottled water，chewing gun and skin moisturizers都是被制造的习惯的具体例证，因此本题答案为A。
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