5 . Living Divani Furniture

Extrasoft Living Divani: no limits to your fantasy €5,735

Extrasoft Living Divani is a sofa that lives up to the promise in its name: to be a really comfortable sofa. Enjoy creating your dream sofa, matching the different bases, armrests, and backrests and choose your favourite fabrics and leathers: fantasy is your limit. Furnish your living room with made in Italy furniture, now available for you at a special price.

Frog Interweave Armchair €6,048

Frog by Living Divani is an armchair with an essential and modern design. It has a steel frame and woven with the following materials: cut in natural and colored natural leather, hemp cord, profile in PVC. Available in different colors.

Living Divani Neowall: modular sofa perfection €3,672

Neowall by Living Divani is an incredible sofa, and not because of its price. Its uniqueness lies in the exclusive design, the high-quality materials and the maximum comfort it guarantees. Sober, modern and characterized by clean lines, the masterpiece of designer Piero Lissoni is able to adapt to the most varied needs, thanks to adaptable elements, fabrics, and colours. Neowall is the canapé(长沙发) that fully reflects the taste in furnishing those who choose it, telling its story.

Flow Rocking Chair €2,715

Flow by Living Divani is a light and versatile rocking chair, perfect for unique relax moments. The minimal design, with essential shapes, makes it perfect in every living area. A fashionable alternative to a classic armchair.

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1. What is worth a try if you buy Extrasoft Living Divani?

A．Getting a masterpiece by Piero Lissoni.	B．Rocking the chair to relax yourself.
C．Customizing a sofa to your taste.	D．Cutting naturally colored leather.

2. What makes Living Divani Neowall special?

A．Its reasonable price.	B．Signature of the designer.
C．The touching story behind.	D．Top-grade materials.

3. Where might you read this article?

A．On a trading platform.	B．In a newspaper.
C．In a financial report.	D．On a government website.

8 . Buyer beware: There’s a reason why online ticket sellers hit you with last-second fees. A massive experiment by Berkeley professsor Tadelis with the online ticket marketplace StubHub concluded that “drip pricing”, where additional fees are only disclosed when customers are ready to confirm their purchases, resulted in people spending more. “Websites incorporating ‘hidden fees’ are making more money than they would if they chose to honestly display all fees upfront,” Tadelis said.

The study set out to find out how “drip pricing” affects both the quantity and types of ticket purchases through a large-scale, real-world randomized experiment. For the experiment, StubHub randomly assigned half of all the users to an experimental hidden-fee structure where buyers saw only the ticket list price as they shopped, and extra fees were only displayed on the checkout page, which generally amounted to 15% of the ticket price including shipping. The other half of StubHub users continued to see the all-inclusive prices. This setup allowed Tadelis and his colleagues to compare the choices made by the two groups, such as purchases and clicks towards checkout.

Overall, users who weren’t shown the additional fees upfront spent about 21% more on tickets and were 14% more likely to complete a purchase compared with those who saw all-inclusive prices from the start. Among all those who made purchases, customers in the hidden-fee group bought tickets that were about 5% more expensive than those in the upfront fee group, buying more tickets for seats located closer to the field or the event stage.

The findings raise questions for whether the misinformed consumers have a right to full price disclosure upfront. Professor Tadelis noted that some governments have considered regulating this behavior to increase transparency—Canada, for example, has banned the use of drip pricing for ticket sales. “I can’t think of a good reason to allow this practice in any country as the harm to consumers is clear from our study,” Tadelis said.

1. Online ticket sellers reveal the extra fees only at the last moment to________.

A．offer cheaper tickets	B．increase the selling transparency
C．make more profits	D．allow buyers more time to consider

2. What can we learn about the experiment from Paragraph 2?

A．Participants were divided into halfs at their will.

B．All users could see the additional fees in advance.

C．Shipping fees amount to 15% of the ticket price.

D．Researchers compared the two groups’ choices.

3. What do we know about “dripping price”?

A．It made 14% more customers buy tickets.

B．It helped to increase ticket profits by 5%.

C．It has been regulated by the governments.

D．It caused customers to spend more money.

4. What is professor Tadelis’ attitude towards “drip pricing”?

A．It is practical and deserves promoting.	B．It is harmful and should be banned.
C．It is costly but can be accepted.	D．It is beneficial but needs regulating.