Four years ago, we asked ourselves: what if we could create a shopping experience with no waiting in lines and no checkout? Or could we create a physical store where customers could simply take what they want and go? Our answer to those questions is Amazon Go, where you could experience the idea of “just walk out shopping”.
Amazon Go is a new kind of store with no checkout required. We created the world’s most advanced shopping technology, so you never have to wait in line. With our “just walk out shopping” experience, simply use the Amazon Go app to enter the store, take the products you want, and go! No lines, no checkout.
Our checkout-free shopping experience is made possible by the same types of technologies used in self-driving cars: computer vision, sensor fusion, and deep learning. Our “just walk out technology” automatically detects when products are taken from or returned to the shelves and keeps track of them in your virtual cart. When you’re done shopping, you can just leave the store. Shortly after, we’ll charge your Amazon account and send you a receipt.
We offer delicious ready-to-eat breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack options made fresh every day by our on-site chefs and favorite local kitchens and bakeries. Our selection of foodstuff ranges from bread and milk to cheeses and locally made chocolates. You’ll find well-known brands we love, plus special finds we’re excited to introduce to customers. For a quick home-cooked dinner, pick up one of our chef-designed Amazon Meal Kits, and you can make a meal for two in about 30 minutes.
Our 1,800-square-foot shopping space is conveniently compact(紧凑的), so busy customers
can get in and out fast. It is located at 2131, 7th Ave, Seattle, WA, on the corner of 7th Avenue and Blanchard Street. All you need is an Amazon account, a supported smartphone, and the free Amazon Go app.
Amazon Go is currently only open to Amazon employees in our testing program, and will be open to the public soon.
1.From the passage, we can learn that Amazon Go .
A. is a checkout-free store B. sells all kinds of goods
C. is open to the public D. uses unknown technologies
2.What is mainly discussed in Paragraph 3?
A. When Amazon Go charges. B. How Amazon Go works.
C. Where Amazon Go lies. D. What Amazon Go sells.
3.Customers pay for the products from Amazon Go by .
A. paying cash at the counter B. walking out of the store
C. using their Amazon accounts D. scanning smartphones when leaving
4.The main purpose of the passage is to .
A. encourage people to shop online B. advise people to work for Amazon
C. inform people of a new concept store D. tell people of the shopping experience
科目：高中英语 来源：河南省南阳市联合体2016-2017学年高一下学期期末考试英语试卷 题型：阅读理解
The next time you eat a piece of chocolate, be sure to enjoy it, because according to two of the world’s largest chocolate maker—Mars Inc and Barry Callebaut, the treat may soon be in short supply. The problem? We are consuming the candy at a faster pace than farmers can grow cocoa. The can manufacturers say that in 2013, people consumed 70,000 tons more cocoa than was produced. Experts say that this is the worst supply-demand imbalance they have experienced m more than 50 years.
Parts of the reason for the condition is the large reduction in supply, caused by a continuous drought in the west African countries of Ivory Coast and Ghana, where more than 70 percent of the world’s cocoa is produced. Additionally, a certain disease known as frosty pod has destroyed 30 to 40 percent of global cocoa production. As a result, many farmers have turned to more profitable and easier grown crops like corn. This means that even if conditions improve, cocoa production may never get back to normal.
Meanwhile, the world is only getting hungrier for chocolate. The biggest increase in demand is from the residents of emerging market countries like India. Though their consumption is nowhere close to the amount European devour, their newly acquired amount for the treat, is making a huge dent (凹痕) in an already tight market.
There is also the growing desire for dark chocolate, which contains more than 70 percent cocoa compared to normal chocolates. Experts believe that if consumption continue at this pace, cocoa deficits (差额) could swell to one million tons by 2020 and to an even more worrisome, two million tons, by 2030.
Not surprisingly, cocoa prices have risen by 60% since 2012, a cost that manufacturers have offset by raising the prices of everyone’s favorite candy. As the situation worsens, the price of chocolate can only rise—so be sure to enjoy piece of the sweet treat, like it is your last!
1.The underlined phrase “supply—demand imbalance” probably means .
A. People consume more chocolate than production
B. Farmers grow more cocoa than people’s demand
C. More and more people like eating chocolates now
D. Chocolates are becoming more and more expensive
2.It is hard to raise cocoa production probably because .
A. The weather is changeable in the west Africa
B. A certain disease spread around the world
C. Many farmers don’t grow any longer
D. It is impossible for conditions to be improved
3.Where has the demand of chocolate been increasing greatly according to the passage?
A. In Asia B. In Africa
C. In Europe D. In America
4.According to the author’s prediction, we can know that .
A. Chocolate will become cheap sooner or later
B. The farmers will produce more cocoa in 2030
C. The price of chocolate will be going up all the way
D. Dark chocolate will be more popular than common one
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科目：高中英语 来源：安徽省宣城市2016-2017学年高一下学期期末调研测试英语试卷 题型：阅读理解
A scanner is recently created by a group of professors. It is believed to predict the perfect job for anyone simply by reading their fingerprints. The group says that in the future, fingerprints could help tell a person’s key personalities.
To use the scanner, people place their fingers upon the fingerprint reader and computer technology connected with sensors (传感器) reads back what sort of job could suit the individual. The machine bases its results on a collection of a large amount of information in the computer about how fingerprint shapes connect with job selection.
Local companies help researchers from the city’s Kuban University of Physical Education and Sport to test the technology.
Twenty - one - year - old Oscar Galkin, a mathematics graduate, said: “I got the result from the scanner that I would suit a job in IT, which is exactly what I want to do. I don’t know if it is luck or if it can really read a person’s talents, but it worked for me.”
And Zara Tokareva, aged 20, who feels uncomfortable at the sight of blood, said: “I want to be a house designer but the machine said I should be a nurse. So, no, I don’t think it is as clever as expected.”
Though fingerprint identification has been widely used in crime discovering, it is still a science that has a lot of possibility of being used, say experts, from discovering drug misuse to personality analysis - exactly as hand readers have been saying to do for centuries.
“The basic idea is that although everybody’s fingerprints are completely different, there are obvious features that are common on the fingers of certain professionals working in certain jobs,” said researcher Ravil Yudin.
It’s not really a new idea because hand readers have been saying for hundreds of years that you can tell a person’s future by reading their hands. We want to match that by looking at fingerprints and trying to tell what career path people would choose.
1.From the text we know that the fingerprint scanner .
A. matches fingerprints with jobs B. tells people’s personality
C. helps collect job information D. reads individual’s mind
2.What can we learn from what Ravil Yudin said?
A. The fingerprint scanner is based on a new idea.
B. Cerain people’s fingers actually have something in common.
C. Telling one’s future by reading his hands started a few years ago.
D. The technology of fingerprint identification can be used in many fields.
3.What is the main idea of the passage?
A. Hand readers are widely used in life.
B. A fingerprint scanner could tell a person’s personality.
C. A fingerprint scanner could predict a person’s job.
D. A fingerprint scanner could be used in crime discovering.
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科目：高中英语 来源：陕西省延安市大学区校际联盟2016-2017学年高二下学期期中考试（B）英语试卷 题型：完形填空
There was once a boy in India who was sent by his parents to a boarding school(寄宿学校). Before being sent away this boy was the brightest student in his class.
But the boy_________after leaving home and attending the boarding school. His grades started _______. He hated being in a group and he was _________all the time. And there were especially dark times when he felt like _______himself. All of this happened because he felt worthless and no one loved him.
His _______ started worrying about the boy. But they even didn’t know what was wrong with him. _________ his dad decided to travel to the boarding school and talk with him.
They sat _______ the bank of the lake near the school. The father started asking him casual questions about his classes, teachers and _______. After some time his dad said, “Do you know, son, _______ I am here today?”
The boy answered back, “To check my grades?”
“No, no,” his dad __________, “I am here to tell you that you are the most important person for me. I want to see you happy. I don’t __________ grades. I care about __________. I care about your happiness. YOU ARE MY WORLD.”
Those words caused the boy’s eyes to fill with tears. He __________ his dad. They didn’t say __________ to each other for a long time.
Now the boy had everything he wanted. He knew there was someone on this earth who cared for him deeply. He meant the __________ to someone. And today this young man is in college at the top of his class and no one has ever seen him sad!
1.A. changed B. improved C. escaped D. regretted
2.A. increasing B. rising C. balancing D. dropping
3.A. disappointed B. careless C. lonely D. busy
4.A. teaching B. killing C. helping D. enjoying
5.A. parents B. classmates C. teachers D. friends
6.A. And B. But C. Or D. So
7.A. toward B. along C. on D. opposite
8.A. work B. study C. sports D. education
9.A. when B. where C. why D. how
10.A. replied B. smiled C. called D. talked
11.A. check out B. care about C. worry about D. think about
12.A. it B. myself C. you D. us
13.A. forgave B. shook C. hugged D. begged
14.A. anything B. everything C. something D. nothing
15.A. life B. world C. hope D. need
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科目：高中英语 来源：安徽省蚌埠市2017届高三7月月考英语试卷 题型：短文填空
Everybody, welcome to1.(we)company. I am Luisa, Director of the department. Let me say something to you all. The starting of work can be exciting on the hand, and can also be 2. (worry) on the other. No matter what your future job is, you will have to work with others. Leaning to get on well with others must come first3. (include) all staff in the company and our 4. (custom)
And secondly, right after my introduction, spend some time reading the introduction of our company and get to know the people in your office and find out5.the company is like This afternoon you can walk around our workshops and know6. (much)about the products. No one is allowed7. (leave)the company before 5:30 pm. By the way, lunchtime8. (c ome)at 11:50 and it’s free9.charge.
Remember: Learning is so important 10.it can change your future life.
This is what I’d like to say to you at the moment. If you still have any question, please come to my office. Thank you.
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科目：高中英语 来源：内蒙古包头市2016-2017学年高二下学期期末考试英语试卷 题型：完形填空
My wood-shop teacher, Mr. August J. Bachmann, was the most influential teacher I ever had.I had gotten into ______ in his class: Another student had pushed me into a wood lathe (车床), and I became _____ and began to hit him. Mr. Bachmann stopped the ______, but instead of sending me to the office, he sat me down and asked a simple question:“Penna, why areyou ______ your life? Why aren't you going to college?”
I didn't know anything about ______ . No one had ever considered that a fatherless boy from the poorest neighborhood had a ______. That day, instead of rushing off for ______ , he stayed and explained possible______ options to me. At the end of our ______ , he sent me to see a secretary who had a child at a state college. This was in 1962.
Well, 53 years have passed, and what have I done with the ______he gave me? I gained a PhD from Fordham University when I was only 29. I ____
English and social studies and then ________ the chain of command from teacher to headmaster.I've sat on the board(董事会) for Magnet Schools of America and ______ that organization at the United Nations. I've won a number of prestigious (声望很高的) educational awards. ______ where would I be if atruly ______ teacher had not taken the time out of his lunch period to speak to me?It was ______ only his confidence in me that pushed me forward.I have
____ his kindness hundreds of times by encouraging misguided youngsters to ______ higher. If I have ______ any children, it is because of him. If I have been a ______ educator, it is because I had a great role model in Mr. Bachmann.
1.A. debt B. water C. prison D. trouble
2.A. afraid B. angry C. brave D. curious
3.A. play B. game C. fight D. quarrel
4.A. wasting B. ending C. changing D. living
5.A. schools B. colleges C. friendship D. teamwork
6.A. role B. try C. job D. future
7.A. work B. rest C. lunch D. emergency
8.A. education B. interest C. exercise D. career
9.A. talk B. class C. trip D. silence
10.A. money B. knowledge C. luck D. experience
11.A. chose B. quitted C. taught D. learned
12.A. set up B. moved up C. gave up D. took up
13.A. founded B. supported C. helped D. represented
14.A. So B. Or C. But D. And
15.A. caring B. honest C. clever D. humorous
16.A. after all B. without question C. in reality D. beyond expectation
17.A. repaid B. shown C. recognized D. received
18.A. jump B. climb C. aim D. feel
19.A. praised B. surprised C. understood D. saved
20.A. successful B. confident C. strict D. special
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科目：高中英语 来源：黑龙江省2016-2017学年高一下学期期末考试英语试卷 题型：短文改错
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处，每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧), 并在此符号下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（ ＼）划掉。
修改： 在错的词下划一横线, 并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意:：1、每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2、只允许修改十处, 多者(从第11处起) 不计分。
It was a Sunday afternoon. I am playing in the park with my friend when I saw an old man lying on the ground. I tried to help him standing up, and he couldn’t move and seemed in pain. Not knowing what to do, I asked my friend call an ambulance. Soon the ambulance arrived at. We helped carry the old man into the ambulance. The doctor praised us for that we did, which made us very happily.
In my opinion, every one of them should have a sense of responsibilities and a caring heart. Whenever we see someone in need of help, we should give them the hand immediately.
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科目：高中英语 来源：安徽省巢湖市2016-2017学年高二下学期期末考试英语试卷 题型：书面表达
假定你是李华，从网上得知一美国中学正在招募中国中学生志愿者。本次招募旨在通过网络帮助美国学生体验中国春节。请用英语写一封电子邮件提出申请，内容包括：1.愿意参加；2.自身优势；3.计划与期望。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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科目：高中英语 来源：2017年全国普通高等学校招生统一考试英语（浙江卷精编版） 题型：七选五
How to Do Man-on-the Street Interviews
The man-on-the-street interview is an interview in which a reporter hits the streets with a cameraman to interview people on the spot. 1. But with these tips, your first man-on-the-street interview experience can be easy.
• When your boss or professor sends you out to do man-on-the –street interviews for a story, think about the topic and develop a list of about ten general questions relating to it. For example, if your topic is about environmental problems in America, you might ask, “Why do you think environmental protection is important in America?” 2.
• Hit the streets with confidence. 3. Say, “Excuse me, I work for XYZ News, and I was wondering if you could share your opinion about this topic,” This is a quick way to get people to warm up to you.
• Move on to the next person if someone tells you she is not interested in talking on camera. Don’t get discouraged.
• 4. Each interview that you get on the street shouldn’t be longer than ten minutes. As soon as you get the answer you need, move on to the next person. Make sure that as you go from interview to interview, you are getting a variety of answers. If everyone is giving you the same answer, you won’t be able to use it. A safe number of interviews to conduct is about six to ten. 5.
• If your news station or school requires interviewees to sign release forms to appear on the air, don’t leave work without them.
A. Limit your time.
B. As you approach people, be polite.
C. If you don’t own a camera, you can buy one.
D. For new reporters, this can seem like a challenging task.
E. To get good and useful results, ask them the same question.
F. That number of interviews should give you all the answers you need.
G. With a question like this, you will get more than a ‘Yes” or “No” reply.
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