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
2018-10-16
24
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.
According to Cyber Dialogue, ______.
选项
A、online shopping will not replace the traditional shopping habits
B、customers seek information via the Internet more often than via any other means
C、Internet users only seek information online without making real purchases
D、fewer and fewer people purchase what they want via the Internet
答案
A
解析
末段末句中的Cyber Dialogue所提供的数据是为了说明本段的观点,即本段的第1、2句的观点,即网络购物只是一种补充,不会代替传统的购物方式,因此A为本题答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/kyH7777K
0
大学英语六级
相关试题推荐
Naturally,inagroupofanimalsasdiverseasthesnakes,andwithsomanyvariedenemies,therearenumerousdefensivereactio
"Theworld’senvironmentissurprisinglyhealthy.Discuss."Ifthatwereanexaminationtopic,moststudentswouldtearitapart
UsingFacebookmakespeoplesadder,atleastaccordingtosomeresearch.Butjustwhatisitaboutthesocialnetworkthattakes
Womenareconsidered"heavydrinkers"iftheyhaveeightormoredrinksaweek,accordingtotheCentresforDiseaseControland
Womenareconsidered"heavydrinkers"iftheyhaveeightormoredrinksaweek,accordingtotheCentresforDiseaseControland
A、Inacrowdedclassroom.B、Inanemptyroom.C、Inabusystreetcorner.D、Inashoppingcentre.B推断题。根据Whatanice,quietspota
ItwasmusictomyearstohearthattheGovernment’schiefadviseron【C1】______,SusanJebb,wantsparentsto【C2】______fruitj
ArecentBBCdocumentary,"TheTownThatNeverRetired",soughttoshowtheeffectsofincreasingthestatepensionagebyputti
A、Theyhavethought.B、Theyreplaceourjobs.C、Theyperformboringtasks.D、Theycreateexplosions.B录音开头提到,机器人占领世界或许并非如此戏剧性,他们
随机试题
患者,男,62岁,素有哮喘,发作2个月,时轻时重,近2日喘咳加剧,喘急面青,烦躁不安,汗出如油,舌质青黯,脉细数不清,治宜
使用收益法时,重要的是科学、合理地确定方法运用中的各种指标,这些指标主要有
晚期产后出血的常见病因是
与周缘血中的中性多形核白细胞趋化功能异常无关的牙周病是染色体隐性遗传引起的先天性疾病是
治疗耳聋实证,应选用以下哪组经脉为主()
能抑制肠内细菌生长,减少氨的形成和吸收的药物是
1999年9月20日,中国A市甲公司作为买方与作为卖方的位于意大利B市的乙公司在北京签订购买全套由意大利CO综合机械厂制造的生产PP与HDPE两种塑料单丝的生产线合同,合同号为056合同约定,买方应在卖方交付设备之前1个月通过中国银行开出以卖方为受益人的不
下列有机物中,对于可能处在同一平面上的最多原子数目的判断,正确的是:
对自行开发并按法律程序申请取得的无形资产,按在研究与开发过程中发生的材料费用、直接参与开发人员的工资及福利费、开发过程中发生的租金、借款费用,以及注册费、聘请律师费等费用作为无形资产的实际成本。()
甲向乙银行贷款,以其别墅设定抵押。之后,甲在别墅院内建造了独立车库。贷款到期,甲无力偿还。乙银行享有优先受偿权的财产()(2015年非法学基础课单选第39题,2015年法学基础课单选第19题)
最新回复
(
0
)