首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
It was going to have roughly the effect of a neutron bomb attack on high streets and shopping malls. The buildings would be left
It was going to have roughly the effect of a neutron bomb attack on high streets and shopping malls. The buildings would be left
admin
2016-04-01
40
问题
It was going to have roughly the effect of a neutron bomb attack on high streets and shopping malls. The buildings would be left standing but the people would vanish. Such was the superior efficiency of selling things via the Internet that brick-and-mortar stores would be unable to compete on price, choice or even service. Book and music sellers had already been "Amazoned". Soon web-based "category-killers", in everything from toys to pet supplies, would overwhelm their physical-world competitors. Shoppers would never be more than a mouse-click from the best deals. Traditional retailers, terrified of cannibalizing(同 类相食)sales and destroying the value of their expensive properties, were already too late to meet the challenge. "In some categories," said Mary Meeker, a seer(预言家)of the Internet at Morgan Stanley, "it’s already game over."
These are convenient beliefs for anyone justifying some e-commerce share prices, but they are already mostly wrong. The reasons should surprise no one. The Internet is not a dominant technology but rather a network of people. It is a rich and highly flexible means of communicating that is rapidly achieving pervasiveness because more and more people find it easy and convenient to use. But it is those people’s preferences that will count; and for most people, shopping is more than just a means to an end. Even if the Internet provided a perfectly efficient way to shop it would not provide a satisfactory alternative to the physical enjoyment of sniffing a ripe melon, say, or trying on a cashmere sweater.
Of course, some products, such as music and banking, can be distributed electronically with success and cost saving. But most purchases cannot be reduced to digital code. And distributing physical goods is cumbersome(笨重的)and expensive. Behind even the most exciting user interface there are old-fashioned warehouses and lorries, customers who decline to sit at home waiting for purchases to arrive, and goods that must be re-wrapped and expensively returned. No wonder that the cost of getting goods to customers’ homes so often soaks up the notional price advantages of e-commerce.
What Internet shoppers have quickly realized is that the web is an addition to, and not a substitute for, their shopping habits. It is wonderful for gathering up-to-date information about products and prices. Cyber Dialogue, a research firm, estimates that in 1998 23m Americans sought information online, but then made their purchases offline, compared with only 17.7m who did the whole thing online.
The author compares______of the online sale to the effect of neutron bomb attack.
选项
A、the efficiency .
B、the choice
C、the price
D、the service
答案
A
解析
作者在首段开头指出It会造成中子弹一样的冲击,但It指代什么,作者在第3句才说明,通过Such联系上下文的功能可以知道,It指的就是网上销售的高效率,由此可见,A为本题答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/B3L7777K
0
大学英语六级
相关试题推荐
EatingDisordersA)Eatingdisordershavebeenmostcommonlyassociatedwithwomenandthereforemoststudiesonanorexianervosa
BonAppetiteA)Wealllovethefoodwegrowupon,butwealsoseekadventureinthefoodwehavenevertasted.Ahugelypopular
BonAppetiteA)Wealllovethefoodwegrowupon,butwealsoseekadventureinthefoodwehavenevertasted.Ahugelypopular
FemaleRelationshipsA)Severalnewbooksandfilmsexplorethecomplexrelationshipsbetweenwomen.LucyScholesexplainswhyan
Emotionisafeelingaboutorreactiontocertainimportanteventsorthoughts.Peopleenjoyfeelingsuchpleasantemotionsasl
ReadingtheWorldin196BooksA)WriterAnnMorgansetherselfachallenge—toreadabookfromeverycountryintheworldinone
Informationgatheringhashadalonghistoryandtherearemanywaystodoit.【C1】______placeslikelibrariesandmuseumsgather
Parenthoodisn’tacareer-killer.Theeffectofparenthoodisnotthatsevereaspeopleimagine.Infact,economistswithtwoor
A、Hewasoutofhismind.B、Hewasunemployed.C、Hiswifedesertedhim.D、Hischildrenweresick.B对话中男士告诉女士,被控犯有偷窃罪的那位男士已经有段日子没
Lessthantwomonthsintoherbreastcancertreatment,AlexandraJn-CharleswascalledintoanewroomatSUNYDownstateMedical
随机试题
完全预期理论认为远期利率等于短期利率的预期,市场收益率曲线是水平的。( )
BSC协议中的肯定确认(ACK)的监控报文占多少字节?多少比特?
ImustgothereearlierJohnhassuggestedthatI_____anhourbeforethediscussionbegins.
下列关于HCO3-在近端小管重吸收的描述,正确的是
阿米卡星属于哪种结构类型的抗生素
A.小便点滴不通,或量极少而短赤灼热,小腹胀满,口苦口黏,舌质红,苔黄腻,脉沉数B.小便不畅,或点滴不通,咽干,烦渴欲饮,呼吸急促,舌苔薄黄,脉数C.小腹坠胀,时欲小便而不得出,或量少而不爽利,精神疲乏,食欲不振,气短语声低细。舌质淡,苔薄,脉象沉弱
()是独立中介理财机构理财发展方向。
王娟的丈夫是一家公司的经理,因与公司的秘书产生了感情,提出与王娟离婚。离婚后的王娟感觉自己的生活失去了意义,每天把自己关在家中,情绪低落,不愿与家人沟通,喜欢自言自语,有时会大笑,笑完后又大哭。家人感觉王娟的精神出现了问题,找到社区工作者小雷寻求帮助。小雷
张闻天
A、ThestoriesofHarryPotterarecriticizedinsomeothercitiesinU.SexceptNewMexiconB、YoungpeoplearefascinatedwithH
最新回复
(
0
)