The producers of instant coffee found their product strongly resisted in the market places in spite of their products’ manifest advantages. However, the advertising expenditure for instant coffee was far greater than which for regular coffee. Efforts were made to find the cause of the consumers’ seemingly reasonable resistance to the product. The reason given by most people were dislike of the taste. The producers suspected that there might be deeper reasons, however. This confirmed by one of motivation research’s classic studies, one often cited in the trade. Mason Haire of the University of California, constructed two shopping lists that were identical except from one item. There were six items common to both lists with the brands or amounts specify. The seventh item, in fifth place on both lists, read Maxwell House coffee on one list and Nestle Instant Coffee on other. One list was given to each one in a group of fifty women, and the other list to those in another group of the same size. The women were asked to study their lists and then to deseribe, as far they could, the kind of women (personality and character) who would draw up that shopping list. Nearly half of those who had received the list including instant coffee was described a house-wife who was lazy and a poor planner. On the other hand, only one woman in the other group described the housewife, who had included regular coffee on her list, as lazy.
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问答题乡下老家前面的空地，租给人家种桃花心木的树苗。树苗种下来后，植树人总是隔几天才来浇 水。他来的天数并没有规则，有时三天，有时五天，有时十几天来一次。浇水的量也不一定，有时浇 得多，有时浇得少。桃花心木有时就莫名地枯萎了，所以，他来的时候总会带几株树苗补种。我起先 以为他太懒，隔那么久才为树浇水。但是，懒的人焦么会知道有几棵树枯萎了呢他说：“种树是百 年基业，所以树木自己要学会在土地里找水源。我浇水只是模仿老天下雨，老天下雨是算不准。如 果无法在这种不确定中汲水生长，树苗很自然就枯萎了。但是，只要在不确定中找到水源，拼命扎根 的树，长成百年的大树就不成问题了。”

问答题I was slow to understand the deep grievances of women. This was because, as a boy, I had envied them. Before college, the only people I had ever known who were interested in art or music or literature, the only ones who read books, the only ones who ever seemed to enjoy a sense of ease and grace were the mothers and daughters. Like the menfolk, they fretted about money, they scrimped and made-do. But, when the pay stopped coming in, they were not the omens who had failed. Nor did they have to go to war, and that seemed to me a blessed fact. By comparison with the narrow, ironclad days of fathers, there was an expansiveness, I thought, in the days of mothers. They went to see neighbors, to shop in town, to run errands at school, at the library, at church. No doubt, had I looked harder at their lives, I would have envied them less. It was not my fate to become a woman, so it was easier for me to see the graces. Few of them held jobs outside the home, and those who did filled thankless roles as clerks and waitresses. I didn’t see, then, what a prison a house could be, since houses seemed to me brighter, handsomer places than any factory. I did not realize—because such things were never spoken of—how often women suffered from men’s bullying.

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