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Shopping has become a very secret and mysterious affair. Conspicuous consumption does not look good during a recession, which ex
Shopping has become a very secret and mysterious affair. Conspicuous consumption does not look good during a recession, which ex
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2023-02-10
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问题
Shopping has become a very secret and mysterious affair. Conspicuous consumption does not look good during a recession, which explains why so many of us are embracing e-commerce. Online shopping on these shores is projected to grow from sales of S8.9bn to around £21.3bn by the end next year.
Often people proclaim they’ve embraced e-commerce because it’s "
green
". This is understandable. If many shopping bags in a recession look bad, bricks and mortar retail—huge out-of-town shopping centres, retail emporia (大百货店) that insist on leaving their doors open even in winter and grocery stores full of the most inefficient freezers—look terrible during an ecological emergency.
Should we buy the idea that e-commerce is any better? Several studies have tried to answer this with cold, hard data. A 2000 study on Webvan, a US online grocer that does not exist any more, concluded that a wider adoption of e-commerce would not give us environmental gains, while a 2002 study of US book retailing found no greater energy savings selling online. But the study that all e-retailers are talking about is a new one from Carnegie Mellon University, which has found that shopping online via Buy.com’s e-commerce model for electronic products uses 35 per cent less energy consumption and CO
2
emissions than a traditional bricks-and-mortar model.
This is largely because it avoids the usual retail distribution model and, of course, the impact of consumers driving to a store. And, from the shopper’s perspective, online buying often allows you to avoid the ephemera (便宜的日常小用品) of retail, like the 100m coat hangers that end up in landfill each year, or lengthened cash register receipts.
But both models are flawed, because online or on the high street, retailers are dependent on a hydrocarbon-fuelled delivery system. Trucks deliver 4.8m tonnes of freight each day in the UK, which works out at about 80kg per person. To make matters worse, after a truck drops off the goods it often returns empty to the storehouse. A 2002 study of 20,000 haulage trips found that only 2.4% of return journey legs found suitable backloads. This journey represents a large part of the impact of what we buy.
Online shopping may prove marginally greener in terms of energy saving, but we shouldn’t forget progressive traditional retail. Places such as Ludlow in Shropshire, a trade town based on ethical trading ideas, where the independent high street has been hard earned. It brings consumers face to face with products with a just background, shortened supply chain and with values. This is a wiser and wider retail experience; anything else could leave you feeling short changed.
The author is most likely to think that Ludlow in Shropshire________.
选项
A、provides pleasant shopping experience
B、makes less profit than online shopping
C、will soon be greener than online retail
D、should try to extend its supply chain
答案
A
解析
该段第2句提到的ethical、independent,第3句提到的just、values和第4句提到的wiser等词都表明作者对Ludlow in Shropshire做出了正面的评价,表明在Ludlow in Shropshire的购物经历会很好、很愉快。因此,本题应选A。该段第2句中的hard earned是被动结构has been hard earned的一部分,这一结构应理解为independent high street是来之不易的,所以这一句并不是说这条商业街很难赚钱,应排除B;该段第1句提到同上购物可能略有较为绿色环保的性质,因此C不正确;原文中的shortened supply chain(缩短了的供应链)是Ludlow in Shropshire的一个优点,供应链短了,购物者的中间费用就能减少,这样一个优点是不需要更改的,D错误。
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