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In a move that could revolutionize the way we buy groceries,Amazon opens its first supermarket without checkouts-human or self-service--to shoppers on Monday.Amazon Go,in Seattle,has been tested by staff for the past year.It uses hundreds of ceiling-mounted cameras and electronic sensors to identify each customer and track what items they select.Purchases are billed to customers'credit cards when they leave the store On entering the store,shoppers walk through gates,swiping their smartphones loaded with the Am-azon Go app.Then they are free to put anything into their own shopping bags.With the help of sensors on the shelves,items are added to customers'Amazon Go account as they pick them up-and delete any they put back.And an electronic receipt is issued as they exit The store opened to employees of the online retail giant in December 2016 and had been expected to allow the public in more quickly.But there were some teething problems with correctly identifying shoppers of similar body types--and children moving items to the wrong places on shelves,according to an Amazon insider.Gianna Puerini said the store had operated well during the test phase Hundreds of infra-red ceiling cameras have been trained over the last year to differentiate between customers as they move around the store,and between items for sale,even those with similar appearances.There are weight sensors on the shelves to help indicate if an item has been taken or put back And some items carry a visual dot code,like a bar code,to help cameras identify them.Amazon isnt offering any information on how accurate the system is.One thing we do know:they're on to the less-than-honest.A New York Times journalist had a go at shoplifting some cans of soft drink,but the system spotted it and put them on his bill Amazon has not said if it will be opening more Go stores,which are separate from the Whole Foods chain that it bought last year for$13.7bn（E10.7bn）.As yet the company has no plans to introduce the technology to the hundreds of Whole Foods stores.However,retailers know that the faster customers can make their purchases,the more likely they are to return.Making the dreaded supermarket queue a thing of the past will give any retailer a huge advantage over its competitors In its third quarter results in October,Amazon for the first time put a figure on the revenues generated by its physical stores:S 1.28bn.Yet almost all of that was generated by Whole Foods.While its stores may not yet be money spinners,analysts have said Amazon is using them to raise brand awareness and promote its Prime membership scheme.Brian Olsavsky,Amazon chief financial officer,recently hinted that rivals should expect more Amazon shops in the months and years ahead You will see more expansion from us-it's still early,so those plans will develop over time,he said in october
In Amazon go the cameras and electronic sensors can

A.Ensure the safety of the market and the shoppers
B.keep track of the service record of the customers
C.contribute to the automation of purchasing
D.help shoppers to locate the proper goods

In a move that could revolutionize the way we buy groceries,Amazon opens its first supermarket without checkouts-human or self-service--to shoppers on Monday.Amazon Go,in Seattle,has been tested by staff for the past year.It uses hundreds of ceiling-mounted cameras and electronic sensors to identify each customer and track what items they select.Purchases are billed to customers'credit cards when they leave the store On entering the store,shoppers walk through gates,swiping their smartphones loaded with the Am-azon Go app.Then they are free to put anything into their own shopping bags.With the help of sensors on the shelves,items are added to customers'Amazon Go account as they pick them up-and delete any they put back.And an electronic receipt is issued as they exit The store opened to employees of the online retail giant in December 2016 and had been expected to allow the public in more quickly.But there were some teething problems with correctly identifying shoppers of similar body types--and children moving items to the wrong places on shelves,according to an Amazon insider.Gianna Puerini said the store had operated well during the test phase Hundreds of infra-red ceiling cameras have been trained over the last year to differentiate between customers as they move around the store,and between items for sale,even those with similar appearances.There are weight sensors on the shelves to help indicate if an item has been taken or put back And some items carry a visual dot code,like a bar code,to help cameras identify them.Amazon isnt offering any information on how accurate the system is.One thing we do know:they're on to the less-than-honest.A New York Times journalist had a go at shoplifting some cans of soft drink,but the system spotted it and put them on his bill Amazon has not said if it will be opening more Go stores,which are separate from the Whole Foods chain that it bought last year for$13.7bn（E10.7bn）.As yet the company has no plans to introduce the technology to the hundreds of Whole Foods stores.However,retailers know that the faster customers can make their purchases,the more likely they are to return.Making the dreaded supermarket queue a thing of the past will give any retailer a huge advantage over its competitors In its third quarter results in October,Amazon for the first time put a figure on the revenues generated by its physical stores:S 1.28bn.Yet almost all of that was generated by Whole Foods.While its stores may not yet be money spinners,analysts have said Amazon is using them to raise brand awareness and promote its Prime membership scheme.Brian Olsavsky,Amazon chief financial officer,recently hinted that rivals should expect more Amazon shops in the months and years ahead You will see more expansion from us-it's still early,so those plans will develop over time,he said in october
In the last paragraph,Brian Olsavsky implies that

A.revenues generated by Go shops surpass that of Whole Foods
B.there will be more Amazon retailer stores in the future
C.Whole Food stores are more competitive than Go shops
D.the retailer stores will take place of the Whore Foods

资料：之后，经济学家Mr.U与你讨论了一些潜在的问题，请根据下列资料回答问题。
KGV is s traditional high-street music retailer.Based in Amsterdam,it has 12 stores in the Netherlands,three of which are mega stores.Some years ago,it expanded into the rest of Europe and now owns 65 stores-eight of these are mega stores.The company is at present going through a difficult period.Over the last three years,profits have steadily fallen,from 450m Euros to 290m Euros.The mega stores’sales have risen by ,accounting for of the company’s turnover, but the increased revenue has been achieved only by heavy expenditure on advertising and promotion. Fierce competition,a narrow product range and a lack of innovation are some of the reasons for KGV’s poor performance.The management are concerned,especially,that they are not exploiting the opportunities offered by selling through the Internet.

What kind company is KGV?（ ）

A.It is music studio.
B.It is an advertising agency.
C.It is a high-street music retailer.
D.It is a consulting firm.

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Paper or plastic?

Take a walk along the Chesapeake Bay,and you are likely to see plastic bags floating in the water. Ever since these now ubiquitous symbols of American super-consumption showed up in the supermarkets,plastic shopping bags have made their______(51)into local waterways,and from there,into the bay,where they can______（52)wildlife. Piles of them一the______（53)takes centuries to decompose一show up in landfills and on city streets.Plastic bags also take an environmental toll in the form of millions of barrels of oil expended every year to produce them.
Enter Annapolis______(54)you will see plastic bags distributed free in department stores and supermarkets.Alderman Sam Shropshire has introduced a well-meaning proposal to ban retailers ______(55) distributing plastic shopping bags in Maryland's capital. Instead,retailers would be required to offer bags______(56)recycled paper and to sell reusable bags.The city of Baltimore is considering a similar measure.Opponents of the idea,however,argue that______(57)bags are harmful,too:they cost more to make,they consume more______(58)to transport,and recycling them causes more pollution than recycling plastic.The argument for depriving Annapolis residents of their plastic bags is．______（59)accepted.Everyone in this______(60)is right about one thing:disposable shopping bags of any type are______(61),and the best outcome would be for customers to reuse bags instead.Annapolis's mayor is investigating how to hand out free,reusable shopping bags to city residents,a proposal that can proceed regardless of whether other bags are banned.A less-expensive______(62)would be to encourage retailers to give discounts to customers______(63)bring their own,reusable bags,a policy that a spokesman for the supermarket Giant Food says its chain already has in place.And this policy would be more______(64)if stores imitated furniture mega-retailer Ikea and charged for disposable bags at the checkout counter. A broad ban on the use of plastic shopping bags,which would merely replace some forms of pollution with others,is not the______(65).

_________(57)
A:cloth
B:paper
C:plastic
D:synthetic

Text 3 The rough guide to marketing success used to be that you got what you paid for.No longer.While traditional“paid”media–such as television commercials and print advertisements–still play a major role,companies today can exploit many alternative forms of media.Consumers passionate about a product may create“owned”media by sending e-mail alerts about products and sales to customers registered with its Web site.The way consumers now approach the broad range of factors beyond conventional paid media.Paid and owned media are controlled by marketers promoting their own products.For earned media,such marketers act as the initiator for users’responses.But in some cases,one marketer’s owned media become another marketer’s paid media–for instance,when an e-commerce retailer sells ad space on its Web site.We define such sold media as owned media whose traffic is so strong that other organizations place their content or e-commerce engines within that environment.This trend,which we believe is still in its infancy,effectively began with retailers and travel providers such as airlines and hotels and will no doubt go further.Johnson&Johnson,for example,has created BabyCenter,a stand-alone media property that promotes complementary and even competitive products.Besides generating income,the presence of other marketers makes the site seem objective,gives companies opportunities to learn valuable information about the appeal of other companies’marketing,and may help expand user traffic for all companies concerned.The same dramatic technological changes that have provided marketers with more（and more diverse）communications choices have also increased the risk that passionate consumers will voice their opinions in quicker,more visible,and much more damaging ways.Such hijacked media are the opposite of earned media:an asset or campaign becomes hostage to consumers,other stakeholders,or activists who make negative allegations about a brand or product.Members of social networks,for instance,are learning that they can hijack media to apply pressure on the businesses that originally created them.If that happens,passionate consumers would try to persuade others to boycott products,putting the reputation of the target company at risk.In such a case,the company’s response may not be sufficiently quick or thoughtful,and the learning curve has been steep.Toyota Motor,for example,alleviated some of the damage from its recall crisis earlier this year with a relatively quick and well-orchestrated social-media response campaign,which included efforts to engage with consumers directly on sites such as Twitter and the social-news site Digg.31.Consumers may create“earned”media when they are

A.obscssed with online shopping at certain Web sites.
B.inspired by product-promoting e-mails sent to them.
C.eager to help their friends promote quality products.
D.enthusiastic about recommending their favorite products.

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DVD for Rent

1.A pay-for-play system for video DVD will emerge by summer as an alternative,and
possibly a competitor,to the DVD format currently available.
2.The new system,called Digital Video Express(Divx),operates like a DVD player,
except for the specially coded discs.These will cost $5 for initial viewing over a 48-hour
period and can be viewed again for additional fees and even purchased for unlimited
viewing.
3.Divx combines the service of a video rental（出租的）store with the operation of a pay-
per-view TV channel.Unlike a rented videotape,though,the Divx disc needn't be
returned.Customers can retain the disc for replay in the future at an additional fee,or
simply throw it away.
4.Subsequent plays,or the purchase of unlimited-viewing rights,are billed to the customer's
Divx account and charged to a credit card.The player's built-in memory keeps track of all Divx
plays, and sends this information by toll-free phone modem（调制解调器）to the Divx
record-keeping centre.Each Divx disc and player has a unique identification code,so the
system knows which discs have been played and where.
5 Some Divx discs could be converted for unlimited play at a price likely to be lower than
buying a conventional DVD.Others,called Divx Gold,would be sold from the beginning
for unlimited play without further charge.Although conventional DVDs will run in a Divx
player,conventional DVD players will lack the decoding and communications ability to play
Divx discs.Divx players will be offered by Panasonic,RCA,and Zenith.
6 About 100 discs will be available initially from Disney, Dreamworks,Paramount,and
Universal, growing to 500 titles within a year. Other film makers have yet to adopt the Divx
system,which is owned by retailer Circuit City,the 350-store electronics chain that
bankrolled（提供资金）its development.

If converted for unlimited use,the Divx disc________.
A:will not be taken back by the shop
B:is specially coded
C:is bankrolled by儿nasonic,etc
D:is likely to be cheaper than the conventional DVD disc
E:has been played and where
F:is owned by retailer Circuit City

资料：之后，经济学家Mr.U与你讨论了一些潜在的问题，请根据下列资料回答问题。
KGV is s traditional high-street music retailer.Based in Amsterdam,it has 12 stores in the Netherlands,three of which are mega stores.Some years ago,it expanded into the rest of Europe and now owns 65 stores-eight of these are mega stores.The company is at present going through a difficult period.Over the last three years,profits have steadily fallen,from 450m Euros to 290m Euros.The mega stores’sales have risen by ,accounting for of the company’s turnover, but the increased revenue has been achieved only by heavy expenditure on advertising and promotion. Fierce competition,a narrow product range and a lack of innovation are some of the reasons for KGV’s poor performance.The management are concerned,especially,that they are not exploiting the opportunities offered by selling through the Internet.

What does the word “turnover” in paragraph 2 mean?（ ）

A.An act or result of turning over.
B.The aggregate of worker replacements.
C.The total amount of business done in a given time.
D.change from one position to another.