2021年06月四级第3套选词填空原文翻译及答案解析

Nowadays you can't buy anything without then being asked to provide a rating of a company's performance on a five-star scale.

如今，你买任何东西，都会被要求对公司的表现进行五星评级。

I've been asked to rate my "store __26__" on the EFTPOS terminal before I can pay. Even the most __27__ activities, such as calling Telstra or picking up a parcel from Australia Post, are followed by texts or emails with surveys asking, "How did we do?"

我在EFTPOS终端支付前，被要求对“商店表现”进行评级。即使是像打电话给Telstra或从Australia Post取包裹这样最日常的活动，之后也会收到短信或邮件调查，询问“我们做得如何？”

Online purchases are __28__ followed up by a customer satisfaction survey. Companies are so __29__ for a hit of stars that if you delete the survey the company sends you another one.

网购后总是会收到客户满意度调查。公司如此渴望获得五星好评，以至于如果你删除了调查，公司还会再发一份。

We're __30__ to rate our apps when we've barely had a chance to use them. One online course provider I use asks you what you think of the course after you've only completed __31__ 2 per cent of it.

我们被要求对应用进行评级，而我们几乎还没机会使用它们。我使用的一个在线课程提供商，在你只完成大约2%的课程时，就询问你对课程的看法。

Economist Jason Murphy says that companies use customer satisfaction ratings because a __32__ display of star feedback has become the nuclear power sources of the modern economy.

经济学家Jason Murphy表示，公司使用客户满意度评级，因为闪亮的星星反馈展示已成为现代经济的核动力源。

However, you can't help but __33__ if these companies are basing their business on fabrications (捏造的东西). I __34__ that with online surveys 1 just click the __35__ that's closest to my mouse cursor (光标) to get the damn thing off my screen. Often the star rating I give has far more to do with the kind of day I'm having than the purchase 1 just made.

然而，你不禁怀疑这些公司是否将业务建立在捏造的东西上。我承认，在做在线调查时，我只是点击离鼠标光标最近的选项，以便赶紧关掉它。通常，我给出的星星评级与我当天的心情关系更大，而不是我刚刚购买的商品。