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

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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 dirty hands instead of a soap habit, that remain killers only because we can’t figure out how to change people’s habit," said Dr. Curtis, the director the Hygiene Center at the 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, 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 habit 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 ruthless 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.  
The author’s attitude toward the influence of advertisement on people’s habits is______.
选项 A、indifferent
B、negative
C、positive
D、biased
答案B
解析 观点态度题。(Lines 3-4，Para．7)“…controversies have erupted when the tactics have been used to sell questionable beauty creams or unhealthy foods．”通过文章的最后一句作者担心利用商业广告促成某些生活习惯的形成从而达到成功销售商品的这个商业战略会被利用到销售问题的美容产品或食品上。所以我们可以判断本题选B。很显然选项A“漠不关心”和选项D“有偏见”可以首先排除(有偏见的文章怎能选为考题)。
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