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Exercise 486
Requesting Information / 資訊請求信函
 

I. Pre-Listening Exercise [Top]

Check the meanings of the following words and expressions:

  • pioneering work

  • published articles

  • extensively used

  • multi-criteria

  • potential risks

  • forecasting

  • assumptions

 


II. Listening Exercise [Top]
1. Listen to the conversation by pressing the "Play" button and then answering the following questions. Press the "Final score" button to check your quiz results.


1.  What area of Dr. Satty’s research is Ashley interested in?
A. 
decision theory
B.
 correlation data
C.
 the Analytic Network Process (ANP)  

 

2. What has Dr. Satty conducted pioneering work on?
A.
forecasting of outcomes
B.
multi-criteria decision problems that are large-scale and multiparty-oriented
C. 
decision theory

 

3. What has AHP often been applied to?
A.
 correlation data

  B. multi-criteria decision problems that are large-scale and multiparty-oriented

  C. the relationship between AHP and ANP

 

4. How many books has Dr. Satty written on decision theory, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and the Analytic Network Process (ANP)? 

A. more than 10 books
B.
12 books  
C. 
more than 12 books

 

5.  What has AHP been extensively used in?

A.  decision making in multi-criteria decision problems

  B.  decision making in business, industry and government

  C. decision making in the Analytic Network Process (ANP) 

 

 



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Post-Listening Exercise

Write a letter to request information (資訊請求信函) by including the following contents:

1.  Explaining why contact was made to request

    information 解釋請求資訊的目地

2. Summarizing one’s academic or professional

    experiences 說明學術專業經驗

Refer to additional examples of correspondence at http://www.chineseowl.idv.tw/html/correspondence/