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2010年在职研究生GCT英语试题(三)预览_试题下载  The supposed importance of influentials derives from a plansible sounding but largelyuntested theory called the “tow-step flow of communication”. Information allows from the media to the influentials and from them to everyone else Marketers have embraced the two-step flow because it suggests that if they can just find and influence the influentials, those select people will do most of the work for them. The theory also seems to explain the sudden and unexpected popularity of people was wearing, promoting or developing whatever it is before anyone else paid attention. Anecdotal evidence of this kind fits nicely with the idea that only certain special people can drive trends.

  In their recent work, however, some researchers have come up with the finding that influentials have far less impact on social epidemics than is generally supposed. In fact, they don’t seem to be required of all.

  The researchers’ argument stems from a simple observing about social influence, with the exception of a few celebrities like Oprah Winfrey-whose outsize presence is primarily a function of media, not interpersonal, influence-even the most influential members of a population simply don’t interact with that many others. Yet it is precisely these non-celebring influentials who according to the two-step-flow theory, are supposed to drive social epidemics, by influcenciny their friends and colleagues directly. For a social epidemic to

  occur, however, each person so affected, must then influence his or her own acquaintances, who must in turn influence theirs, and so on; and just how many others pay attention to each of these people has little to do with initial influential. If people in the network just two degrees removed from the initial influential prove resistant, for example the casecade of change won’t propagate very far or affect many people.

  Building on the basic truth about interpersonal influence, the researchers studied the dynamics of populations manipulating a number of variables relating to people’s ability to influence others and their tendencies to be.

  31. By citing the book The Tipping Point, the author intends to

  [A] analyze the consequences of social epidemics

  [B] discuss influentials’ function in spreading ideas

  [C] exemplify people’s intuitive response to social epidemics

  [D] describe the essential characteristics of influentials

 

  32. The author suggests that the “two-step-flow theory”

  [A] serves as a solution to marketing problems

  [B] has helped explain certain prevalent trends

  [C] has won support from influentials

  [D] requires solid evidence for its validity

 

  33. What the researchers have observed recently shows that

  [A] the power of influence goes with social interactions

  [B] interpersonal links can be enhanced through the media

  [C] influentials have more channels to reach the public

  [D] most celebrities enjoy wide media attention

 

  34. The underlined phrase “these people” in paragraph 4 refers to the ones who

  [A] stay outside the network of social influence

  [B] have little contact with the source of influence

  [C] are influenced and then influence others

  [D] are influenced by the initial influential

 

  35. What is the essential element in the dynamics of social influence?

  [A] The eagerness to be accepted

  [B] The impulse to influence others

  [C] The readiness to be influenced

  [D] The inclination to rely on others

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