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
考研
Read the following text and answer the questions by finding information from the left column that corresponds to each of the mar
Read the following text and answer the questions by finding information from the left column that corresponds to each of the mar
admin
2016-03-21
23
问题
Read the following text and answer the questions by finding information from the left column that corresponds to each of the marked details given in the right column. There are two extra choices in the right column. Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET.(10 points)
When veterans of the last dotcom boom name companies that symbolize the excesses of the late 1990s, they invariably include Webvan and Kozmo. com in their lists. Both promised to make it easy and cheap for people to order goods online and have them delivered swiftly. And both failed spectacularly after they discovered just how hard it is to make money trying to deliver on tight deadlines.
Now, three online giants that survived the dotcom bust are trying to succeed where those two firms failed. Amazon is leading the charge. It has launched Amazon Fresh, a same-day delivery service, in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle. "Place your order by 10 a. m. and have it by dinner," it boasts. The service, which offers a selection of over 500,000 items including perishables such as milk and eggs, delivers its wares in green vans.
Google and eBay are in the vanguard too. Google Shopping Express offers same-day delivery in the San Francisco Bay Area, as does eBay now, which is also available in Chicago, Dallas and New York. The two firms are in partnership with big retail chains and smaller local shops, which hold stock that they can tap into.
Delivery startups such as Instacart and Postmates are also working closely with retailers to avoid the fate of Webvan, which wasted a fortune building its own warehouses. Instacart, which focuses on groceries, relies on "personal shoppers" who use their own vehicles to collect and deliver goods. An Instacart smartphone app tells them which shops to visit, what to pick up and where to take it. Working out delivery schedules and routes is "a really challenging data-science problem" , explains Apoorva Mehta, the firm’s boss and a former Amazon employee.
Sofa-bound shoppers now have a host of options. In San Francisco, Amazon offers a 30-day free trial of Amazon-Fresh, after which customers pay $ 299 for a year’s membership. Members get free shipping on orders of more than $35. In Seattle, there is no annual fee, but orders worth less than $ 100 incur charges. Google Shopping Express, which has a much smaller selection of wares, is offering a six-month free trial while it decides what to charge: and Instacart gives customers various options, including a $3. 99 fee for delivery in less than two hours and an Amazon-like $99 annual membership that eliminates fees on orders worth more than $35.
Your correspondent placed orders with all three of the big online firms, and everything turned up on time and in good condition. There were only minor problems. His Google order came in two separate deliveries. And it was difficult to find details on Amazon Fresh’s web page of how a dissatisfied customer could avoid incurring the $299 fee at the end of a trial period.
Most competitors in the same-day business are focusing on cities with lots of rich consumers prepared to pay for time-saving services. But turning a profit will still not be easy. Andrew Schmahl of Strategy&, a consulting firm, says a survey of 1,000 American online shoppers it conducted last year showed most were reluctant to pay anywhere near enough to cover the cost of speedy deliveries. That may explain why other retailers have been hesitant to enter the business.
选项
答案
F
解析
根据Instacart and Postmates定位到第四段。该段首句指出:Delivery startups such asInstacart and Postmates are also working closely with retailers to avoid the fate of Webvan,whichwasted a fortune building its own warehouses.“像Instacart和Postmates这样的新兴快递公司也与零售商密切合作,避免重蹈Webvan公司的覆辙。”与该句表达接近的是选项[F]coop—crated with local shops and learned lessons from others“与地方商店合作,从别人身上吸取教训”,故[F]为答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/VesZ777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
AcrossthewesternUnitedStatesalone,trout(akindoffish)fishinggenerateshundredsofmillionsofdollarsannually.Buttro
Illegalimmigration,whichhassparkedpoliticalandsocialdisorderincommunitiesacrossthenation,isonthewane,according
Immigrantsaren’tseekingU.S.citizenshipasoftenthesedays—notsincetheAmericandreambecamemoreexpensive.Followin
Measuringtheperformanceofpeople,especiallymanagersandseniorexecutives,presentsaperennialconundrum.Withoutquantifi
SinceMichaelBloombergbecamemayorofNewYorkCityin2002,crime—alreadyfalling—hasgonedownbyanother35%.Welfareroll
Youprobablyalreadyknowthataviselikepressureinthechestisthemostcommonphysicalsignofaheartattack.Youmayeven
Itgoesagainsteverybody’sinnercynictoreadasentencelikethefollowing:Weareonthevergeofthegreatestageofcreati
Immigrationposestwomainchallengesfortherichworld’sgovernments.Oneishowtomanagetheinflowofmigrants;theother,
Planesmayaccountforonly2percentoftheworld’scarbonemissions,butitisafiguredestinedtorise.Theaviationindust
Mysteriousnight-shiningcloudsthatlightupthepolarskieshavebecomemoreshiningandfrequentinrecentyearsandclimate
随机试题
组织
目前认为关于肺气肿发生的机理,下列哪项不正确
以TPP为辅助因子的酶是
【背景资料】某公司中标承建中压A燃气管线工程,管道直径DN30mm,长26km,合同价3600万元。管道沟槽开挖过程中,遇到地质勘查时未探明的废弃砖沟,经现场监理工程师口头同意,施工项目部组织人员、机具及时清除了砖沟,进行换填级配砂石处理,使工程
出口危险货物包装检验包括性能检验和使用鉴定。( )
开设跨学科课程或建立跨学科专业体现了高等教育课程发展的()。
InancientEgypt(古埃及),peoplebelievedthatthecatwasagod.Whena【C1】______dieditsownersshowedtheirsadnessbythestra
设f(χ)在[0,1]上连续,在(0,1)内可导,f(0)=0,f()=1,f(1)=0.证明:(1)存在η∈(,1),使得f(η)-η;(2)对任意的k∈(-∞,+∞),存在ξ∈(0,η),使得f′(ξ)-k[f(ξ)-ξ]=1.
某高校为了使学生更好地进行职场定位和职业准备,提高就业能力,该校学工处将于2013年4月29日(星期五)19:30-21:30在校国际会议中心举办题为“领慧讲堂一一大学生人生规划”就业讲座,特别邀请资深媒体人、著名艺术评论家赵蕈先生担任演讲嘉宾。请根据上述
Isthat______newcar?
最新回复
(
0
)