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evable. and surprised. and moved. and happy. how long did the chain last? week. whole day. twelve hours. six hours. B Owning a smart phone may not be as smart as you may let you surf the Inter,listen to music and snap photos wherever you are…but they also turn you into a workaholic(工作狂) ,it seems. A study suggests that,by giving you access to s at all times,the smart phone adds as much as two hours to your working found that Britons work an additional 460 hours a year on average as they are able to respond to s on their study shows the average UK working day is between 9 and 10 hours,but a further 2 hours is spent responding to or sending work s,or making work calls. Almost one in ten admits spending up to three hours outside their normal working day checking work workers confess they are on call almost 24 hours a twothirds say they often check work s just before they go to bed and as soon as they wake up,while over a third have replied to one in the middle of the average time for first checking s is between 6 and 7 ,with more than a third checking their first in the period,and a quarter checking them between midnight. Ghadi Hobeika,marketing director of Pixmania,said:“The ability to access millions of Apps has made smart phone invaluable for many ,there are panies expect their employees to be on call 24 hours a day,seven days a week,and smart phones mean that people cannot get away from more constantly in contact we bee,the more is expected of us in a work capacity.” a smart phone the average UK working day is . to 12 hours to 10 hours hours hours could be inferred from the text that the British people . to check s in the morning crazy about different smart phone extra hours with smart phones their normal working hours does Ghadi Hobeika feel about smart phones? are unimportant for most of people. have disadvantages for some panies. are useful to improve a work ability. make it impossible for people to rest. can we conclude from the text? coin has two sides. that glitters is not gold. never rains but pours. ’s no good crying over spilt milk. C During this shopping season,salesmen will e up with different strategies to get your product panies use specific colors to cause positive emotions and pete for a ,sight is not the only one sensory detail that panies and smells can influence consumer purchasing decisions. Nobel Prizewinning research shows that our sense of smell has great power to cause an emotional study published earlier his year pared purchasing in a French flower shop when the smell of lavender(薰衣草) was given off and when it wasn’ found that the smell increased the number of customers purchasing items and the amounts of their earlier study using Nike shoes found that consumers desired the shoes more,and were willing to pay more,when the room had a mixed smell of the subconscious impact of smell,many stores apply artificial scents(香味) through their heating and airconditioning vents(通風口) or place scent machines above their instance,a coconut scent might make that bikini more appealing as you long for a vacation. Ever felt frenzied due to a store’s fastpaced music? Or calmed by a piece of light music? A retailer’s choice of music can have a big impact on customer study found that when subjected to loud music,customers will spend less time in a interestingly,the researchers did not find a difference in sales or customers interesting finding from a recent study was that customer actually shop longer when exposed to unfamiliar as department stores use different scents in certain departments,many use different music in some areas to appeal to varying consumers. Well,you could always leave the store and take a break,but the food court probably isn’t your best choice as brands like Cinnabon and Panera Bread also use scents as part of their customer retailers use a variety of other strategies to get your business,but you can always neglect those and enjoy the familiar scents of home. passage is mainly about______