单选题
Online dating, it"s now universally agreed, has its limits. In an effort to combat such digital deception tactics, one of the biggest online dating services, Match.com, has decided to get people out from behind their computers to come out and play. Ironic? No.
Regular dating has its weaknesses too, including extreme initial awkwardness when two people first meet and the even extremer awkwardness of the next few hours when a date proves to be a nonstarter. Match. corn believes that with its database of single-but-searching folks, its algorithm (配对规则) for finding compatibility, it can put together a heck of a singles mixer.
The company has been quietly inviting members to gatherings for the past few years so far, it has hosted about 60 singles events. After all, it knows where the singles are, and it knows what they say they like. So encouraged has Match been by the results, it has just launched an event service known as Stir, which will host 2,000 to 3,000 singles parties a year, hitting 24 cities in June and 70 in September.
Since everyone at the events is looking for a date, the awkwardness is a shared burden and will be easier to shrug off, reasons the company. Also, the dating service is digging deep into its database of 3 million singles, so it can
slice and dice
the guest list. If it wanted to host a singles event on the south side of Topeka in which everybody was a single parent between the ages of 30 and 40 with an interest in Shar-Pei breeding, it could do that—all while making sure that the ratio of male to female dog lovers is perfectly balanced.
Many companies have already tried to turn their online presence into a singles meet-up business. Match.com"s advantage here is the size of its singles pool and the depth of information it has about their preferences.
Match"s VP of Strategy and Analytics Amarnath Thombre says the Stir meet-ups are not in response to recent studies that have questioned the effectiveness of compatibility algorithms such as the one Match.com offers but a natural area of development for a company that just wants to get people together. Nevertheless it seems to suggest that online dating might have found its natural limits; it cannot find a mathematical formula for chemistry.
To say the dating company has high ambitions for Stir is an understatement. Match considers its foray into the offline world the biggest news in its 17 years of existence. "We will be the largest singles event company in the world," predicts Match. com president Mandy Ginsberg. "We could potentially serve half a million people a year." She also excited about stimulating local economies and revitalizing downtown areas by bringing customers to the local bars where the gatherings take place.
单选题
What contributes to Match.com"s idea of offline dating, according to the passage?
单选题
The phrase "slice and dice" (Para. 4) most probably means "______".
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[考点] 词组含义
此题考查考生根据文章上下文内容判断词语含义的能力。问题问：文章第四段中的短语“slice and dice”是什么含义?文章第四段提出，交友服务公司(“默契网”)深入挖掘其数据库，已拥有300万会员，所以它可以将会员名单进行______，比如，如果它想在托皮卡南部举办年龄介于30～40岁之间，而又喜欢养沙皮犬的单亲父母聚会的话，它就一定能办成，只要确保爱狗的男士和女士比例均衡即可。由此可以推断，slice and dice的意思是“分成不同部分”。所以本题正确答案是A：分割。
干扰项B：应用；干扰项C：分类；干扰项D：信任。