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請回答下列第36題至第40題 One of the most fashionable ideas in business is that companies should earn their crust from subscribers, who are “locked in” for a period of time, rather than from customers who can easily switch to another provider at any time. Subscription models are seen by many investors and executives as the holy grail, because they promise a recurring stream of revenue. But the approach suffers from three underappreaciated problems. Acquiring subscribers can be eye-wateringly expensive. Their urge to run away is often only temporarily suppressed. And consumers may have more than one relationship at a time. The best-known subscription model is probably Amazon Prime. It has about 80m members in America alone and for $99 a year offers film and music, speedy delivery of goods and even discounts on goods such as baby food. There are many other examples. Netflix offers a wall of TV for a monthly fee. And more are coming. Venture-capital firms are pouring money into subscription-based home-delivery firms that bring to your doorstep meals, pills or even fresh underpants. Zuora, a software firm, talks of the rise of the “subscription economy.” Several star firms floating their shares this year have subscription models. Dropbox, a cloud-storage firm, listed on NASDAQ on March 23rd and is worth $13bn. It boasts 500m registered users and wants to convert them into “paying users,” of whom there are already 11m, who get a superior service. Spotify, a music streaming firm that listed on April 3rd, has 159m users but derives its $27bn valuation from 71m “premium subscribers” who pay to listen without adverts. On average each generates 13 times more sales and 27 times more gross profit than users who pay no fee.
請回答下列第36題至第40題 One of the most fashionable ideas in business is that companies should earn their crust from subscribers, who are “locked in” for a period of time, rather than from customers who can easily switch to another provider at any time. Subscription models are seen by many investors and executives as the holy grail, because they promise a recurring stream of revenue. But the approach suffers from three underappreaciated problems. Acquiring subscribers can be eye-wateringly expensive. Their urge to run away is often only temporarily suppressed. And consumers may have more than one relationship at a time. The best-known subscription model is probably Amazon Prime. It has about 80m members in America alone and for $99 a year offers film and music, speedy delivery of goods and even discounts on goods such as baby food. There are many other examples. Netflix offers a wall of TV for a monthly fee. And more are coming. Venture-capital firms are pouring money into subscription-based home-delivery firms that bring to your doorstep meals, pills or even fresh underpants. Zuora, a software firm, talks of the rise of the “subscription economy.” Several star firms floating their shares this year have subscription models. Dropbox, a cloud-storage firm, listed on NASDAQ on March 23rd and is worth $13bn. It boasts 500m registered users and wants to convert them into “paying users,” of whom there are already 11m, who get a superior service. Spotify, a music streaming firm that listed on April 3rd, has 159m users but derives its $27bn valuation from 71m “premium subscribers” who pay to listen without adverts. On average each generates 13 times more sales and 27 times more gross profit than users who pay no fee.
According to the passage, which of the following firms has had ten times more sales from their paying
users than users who pay no fee?
- A Amazon Prime
- B Zuora
- C Netflix
- D Dropbox
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如果題目要求你尋找關於「A 是 B 的幾倍」或「特定百分比」的資訊，你在快速掃視文章時，會優先尋找哪些特徵？是尋找特定的大寫字母、特定的專有名詞，還是尋找帶有數字或倍數關鍵詞（如 times）的句子呢？
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AI 詳解
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🌟 哦，不錯嘛，沒搞砸。
看來你總算沒在茫茫字海中迷失方向，勉強找到了那幾個關鍵數字。這證明了你還有點定位關鍵資訊（Scanning）的能力，至少沒瞎到無可救藥。
- 觀念驗證：文章最後，Spotify那段，明明就寫得清清楚楚，付費用戶產生的銷售額是那些白嫖仔的 $13$ 倍。『超過十倍』？嗯，$13$ 確實比 $10$ 大，你總算算對了。沒被那些總用戶數之類的廢話牽著鼻子走，算你走運。
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