Before you start you should know the TEDx rules, which are. non-negotiable and mandatory. General rules * I We value and welcome young organizers, but if you re under 18 years old. you must be supervised by an adult. TED doesn't grant licenses to individuals associated with controversial or extremist organizations. * TED allocates one location-based license series per application. You must live in the city for which you are applying for a license. Your TEDx event must happen in the city for which you received the license. *Your event must maintain the spirit of TED itself. focused on the power of ideas to change attitudes or lives. Your event may not exceed (超过) one day in length. * Up to 100 individuals may attend your event. Only individuals who have attended an official TED conference may organize an event with more than 100 attendees. Having attended one or multiple TEDx events or TEDWomen does not qualify you to host an eventfor more than 100 guests. * TEDx events are named after locations, such as cities, neighborhoods, steets etc., andI aim to serve that named community. Event names must comply with the guideline laid outin naming your event. Special * A TEDx event is not a platform for professional speakers, such as motivational speakers and professional life coaches. Its purpose is to give a platform to those who don't often have one. * A TEDx event cannot be used to raise money. not even for a * A TEDx event can't be co-branded with an institution except under specific license types - for a college or university, or for internal events (for corporations and organizations). * TEDx events may not be used to promote spiritual or religious beliefs, commercialproducts or any kind of political agenda * Every TEDx event either shows only TED Talk videos to its audience, or shows both TED Talk videos and live speakers from the community. For events less than half a day in length. two TED Talks videos are required to be shown. For longer events, 25% of the total number of talks must be official TED Talk videos.
60. What do we know from the first part of the passage A. TED organization is not responsible for TEDx events. B. TEDx but ?t is operated independently.
C. People can give TEDx speeches under no conditions D, TEDx speeches should follow a single topic principle.
61. According to the General rules, a TEDx event organizer should ________. A. extend the event to one day B. hold a TED event first
C. name the event after locations D, host the event in different cities
62. Which of the following people may be allowed to make a TEDx speech
A. A member of a volunteer group who wants to collect money for the war victims. B. A college student who wants to advocate the use of green and renewable energy.
C. A CEO in a high-tech industry who wants to popularize its newest product. D. A professional speaker who wants to motivate people with successful stories.
(C)
In an industry with low margins (利润) where the traditional wisdom is led by Walmart, the key to success is lowering operating costs. A big part of those costs are in labor, so it is no surprise that the retail industry has been a leader in using more part-time workers to keep labor costs down, holding the line on wages, not training, and with few exceptions, seeing employees as a cost to be minimized, There is no doubt that these businesses fight for every dollar of margin. Unlike trend-leading hi-tech companies which spend a lot of money on employees to get them innovated, retail industry can spend very limited money on their employees.
What researchers found was that companies were often staffing their
stores far too low,and that many stores tended to perform better with higher staffing levels and were more profitable. Let's let that sink in for a minute. The stores were making more money (with all other things being equal) when they spent more on employees.
They also found that retailers didn't do a very good job when staffing levels are just the actual demand in those stores. In fact, they set staffing levels identically across stores, even when the needs of the. stores varied considerably. The average store did not appear to be understaffed, but there were enough that were understaffed and effect on overall company profitability was substantial.
Interestingly, the same researchers persuaded the retail chain to run an experiment with them and slightly raise staffing levels to the amount that their analysis of historical data suggests would be ideal. Yes, labor costs obviously jumped when they did that, but so did profits.' In retail, labor is. a small- percentage of costs the. biggest part is the cost of the products they sell. So,
the net effect was an increase in profits of $ million across 168stores on an annual basis.
What can. we learn from this One question worth thinking of is: How can traditional retail industry survive the increasingly severe market Especially now with the growth of online retail, the one thing stores still have going for them is one to one customer contact with sales people. If retailers cut that down to almost nothing. then they have effectively eliminated their competitive advantage against online stores.
63. In the first paragraph, Walmart is mentioned to indicate that ________. A. Walmart is suffering a low return on investments B. Walmart is followed by companies in controlling costs C. Walmart well balances investments and profits
D. Walmart should considerably cut costs on its employees
64. According to the passage. which of the following is true about retail industry A. It focuses on lowering costs of employees.. B. It intends to over staff employees in the stores. C. It attempts to maintain high income for the employees. D It invents a large sum of money on staff training.
65. What can we learn from the researchers experiment
A. It's acceptable to have equal staffing levels across stores. B. Understaffing helps the stores to operate profitably. C. Profitability has nothing to do with staffing.
D. A little over the standard staffing proved to be profitable.
66. Which of the following would the author probably agree with
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