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智 课 网 托 福 备 考 资 料 什么影响着我们的消费？-智课教育旗下智课教育 什么影响着我们的消费？我们因为什么决定买东西呢？现在就跟着 智课教育小编一起来看看吧！ 每个人都不是生活在自给自足的年代了，你总要消费的，可是你的 消费会被什么影响呢?你在面对不同的产品的时候会怎样选择呢?现在就 跟着智课教育小编一起来看看这些资料中经常出现的词汇吧!希望可以帮 助大家提升托福口语，在托福口语 考试中取得好成绩! Now listen to part of a lecture in a business class. (female) If a consumer has to choose between two products, what determines the choice? Assume that someone, a purchaser, is choosing between two products that cost the same. Ok? If people have a choice between two identically-priced products, which one will they choose? They choose the one they think is of the higher quality, of course. But what does it mean for a product to be a high-quality product? Well, business analysts usually speak of two major factors of quality: one factor is reliability and the other is what we called features. So reliability. What’s reliability? Well, a product is reliable if it works the way we expect it to work, if it can go a reasonable amount of time without needing repairs. If a product, a car for example, doesn’t work the way it should and needs repairs too soon, we say it’s unreliable. So product reliability means, basically, the absence of defects or problems that you weren’t expecting. It used to be that when people thought about product’s quality, they thought mainly about reliability. Today, it’s different. People still do care about reliability, don’t get me wrong, it’s just that manufacturing standards are now so high that, we’ll take cars for example today. Today’s cars are very reliable. So reliability is important but it’s not gonna be the deciding factor. So if reliability isn’t the deciding factor anymore, what is? Features! All those extras! The things a product has that aren’t necessary but that make it easier to use or to make it cool! For example, new cars today are loaded with features like electric windows, sun roofs, air-conditioning, stereos and so forth. When people are comparing pr