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Advertising has been among England’s biggest growth industries since the war, in terms of the ratio of money earnings to demonst
Advertising has been among England’s biggest growth industries since the war, in terms of the ratio of money earnings to demonst
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2019-05-04
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Advertising has been among England’s biggest growth industries since the war, in terms of the ratio of money earnings to demonstrable achievement. Why all this fantastic expenditure?
Perhaps the answer is that advertising saves the manufactures from having to think about the customer. At the stage of designing and developing a product, there is quite enough to think about without worrying over whether anybody will want to buy it. The designer is busy enough without adding customer-appeal to all his other problems of man-hours and machine tolerances and stress factors. So they just go ahead and make the thing and leave it to the advertiser to find eleven ways of making it appeal to purchasers after they have finished it, by pretending that it confers (授予) status, or attracts love, or signifies manliness. If the advertising agency can do this authoritatively enough, the manufacturer is in clover(生活舒适).
Other manufacturers find advertising saves them from changing their product. And manufacturers hate change. The ideal product is one which goes on unchanged for ever. If, therefore, for one reason or another, some alteration seems called for, how much better to change the image, the packet or the pitch made by the product, rather than go to all the inconvenience of changing the product itself.
The advertising man has to combine the qualities of the three most authoritative professions: Church, Bar, and Medicine. The great skill required of our priests, most highly developed in missionaries but present, indeed mandatory, in all, is the skill of getting people to believe in and contribute money to something which can never be logically proved. At the Bar, an essential ability is that of presenting the most persuasive case you can to a jury of ordinary people, with emotional appeals masquerading as logical exposition: a case you do not necessarily have to believe in yourself, just one you have studiously avoided discovering to be false. As for Medicine, any doctor will confirm that a large part of his job is not clinical treatment but faith healing. His apparently scientific approach enables his patients to believe that he knows exactly what is wrong with them and exactly what they need to put them right, just as advertising does—"Run down? You need...""No one will dance with you? A dab of... will make you popular."
Advertising men use statistics rather like a drunk uses a lamppost for support rather than illumination. They will dress anyone up in a white coat to appear like an unimpeachable authority or, failing that, they will even be happy with the announcement,"As used by 90% of the actors who play doctors on television." Their engaging quality is that they enjoy having their latest ruses uncovered almost as much as anyone else.
According to the passage, doctors are most successful when they are______.
选项
A、authoritative
B、logical
C、emotional
D、scientific
答案
A
解析
根据题干定位至原文第四段第四、第五句:As for Medicine,any doctor will confirm that a large part of his job is not clinical treatment but faith healing.His apparently scientific approach enables his patients to believe that he knows exactly what is wrong with them and exactly what they need to put them right…(至于医药,任何一位医生都会确信其工作在很大程度上不是临床治疗,而是信念治疗。他用看起来科学的方法使病人相信医生确切知道他们的病情所在,以及需要用什么加以救治……);以及最后一段的第二句:They will dress anyone up in a white coat to appear like an unimpeachable authority or…(他们会让随便一个人穿上白大褂、使其看起来像无可置疑的权威……)故答案为[A]。
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