The last-minute victory of the Texas Longhorns in this year’s Rose Bowl--America’s college football championship--was the kind of thing that stays with fans forever. Just as well, because many had paid vast sums to see the game. Rose Bowl tickets officially sold for＄175 each. On the internet, resellers were hawking them for as much as ＄ 3,000 a pop. "Nobody knows how to control [this]," observed Mitch Dorger, the tournament’s chief executive.
Re-selling tickets for a profit, known less politely as scalping in America or touting in Britain, is booming. In America alone, the "secondary market" for tickets to sought-after events is worth over ＄10 billion, reckons Jeffrey Fluhr, the boss of StubHub, an online ticket market. Scalping used to be about burly men lurking outside stadiums with fistfuls of tickets. Cries of "Tickets here, tickets here" still ring out before kick off. But the internet has created a larger and more effi
A. U2 concert
B. Super Bowl in early February
C. Rolling Stones concerts
D. the soccer World Cup in Germany
| In a paper just published in Science,
Peter Gordon of Columbia University uses his study of the Piraha and their
counting system to try to answer a tricky linguistic question. The Piraha, a
group of hunter-gatherers who live along the banks of the Maiei River in Brazil,
use a system of counting called "one-two-many". In this, the word for "one"
translates to "roughly one" (similar to "one or two" in English), the word for
"two" means "a slightly larger amount than one" (similar to "a few" in English),
and the word for "many" means "a much larger amount". This question was posed by Benjamin Lee Whorl in the 1930s. Whorl studied Hopi, an Amerindian language very different from tile Eurasian languages that had hitherto been the subject of academic linguistics. His work led him to suggest that language not only influences thought but, mo A. the Dani’s thought was strongly restricted by their language B. the Dani could recognize more than they could name C. it is doubtful language influences what people think about D. there is considerable proof indicating language’s decisive role [判断题]强心针剂可代替手工呼吸和胸外心脏挤压两种急救措施。( )
A.正确 B.错误 [填空题]最适宜回流比取为最小回流比的[BLANK1]倍。
[单选题]1物料提升机按结构形式分类，分为()。
A.龙门架式和井架式 B.上回转式和下回转式 C.高架和低架 D.行走式和固定式 [多选题]劳动争议仲裁公开进行,但当事人协议不公开进行或者涉及( )的除外。
A.国家秘密 B.商业秘密 C.劳动报酬 D.个人隐私 [单选题]隐形眼镜护理用品生产企业应根据产品质量特点对每个投料批次生产的产品按照《隐形眼镜护理液卫生要求》(GB19192)进行等消毒效果指标检测;无特定有效成分含量检测方法的,应对有效成分含量除外的其他理化指标进行检测。()
A.理化指标 B.微生物污染指标 C.细菌、霉菌指标 D.以上全对 [简答题]1 应填用变电站第一种工作票的情况是----。
[判断题]制定有特别规定的内河通航水域，《内河避碰规则》所有内容不再适用。
A.正确 B.错误 我来回答: 提交
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