Rather than fight the crowds in the Chicago and San Francisco areas, thousands of busy people log on (登陆) to the Peapod, an online shopping and delivery service. Peapod is giving us a look into the future of retailing (零售业 ) -the virtual store. Peapod is a pioneer in a rapidly expanding industry that is devoted to enabling us to buy almost anything from PC.Peapod’s online shopping system is linked directly to its partner store’s computer systems. When you send your shopping list to Peapod, an order is delivered to the nearest partner store. A professionally trained shopper takes your order, grabs (抓) a shopping cart, and does your shopping for you. The professional shopper takes a fraction of the time you would take because the list is ordered by aisle (栏) and the shopper knows exactly what to get. The system saves people time and money.Busy people in Chicago and San Francisco do their shopping by entering (1) .Peapod is an online (2) service.Peapod system is linked directly to its (3) computer system.In the Peapod system, (4) does the shopping for the client.Peapod system can save people (5) . 5()
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Falling in love for the first time is like (discover) () a new universe full of pleasure and closeness.
张小兰一家原来租住在李一伦所有的一套房屋内,租赁合同由丈夫王某与李一伦签订,后来王某不幸死亡。张小兰经同事介绍,与陈某再婚,并随夫搬至陈某处居住。为此,原告李一伦起诉要求被告张小兰及其女儿张亦兰二人腾退承租的住房两间。但被告二人辩称:被告张小兰虽然再婚随夫居住,因其女被告张亦兰一人仍住在承租原告的两间住房里,每星期回来两次与女儿同住。故不同意原告的诉讼请求。据此,人民法院主持双方当事人调解希望原、被告之间平息纠纷,和睦相处,但未能成功。假如本案在开庭审理时,被告张小兰、张亦兰向人民法院申请通知出庭作证的证人孙某没有到庭,经电话联系,孙某表示不想得罪人,不愿意出庭作证了。则产生以下何种法律后果:
A. 追究孙某的妨碍民事诉讼行为的责任
B. 再次通知孙某,如果孙某再不到庭,则可以拘传
C. 孙某的证言将不能作为单独认定案件事实的依据
D. 如果孙某不能出庭是因病住院,那么可以采取其他方式作证,不影响证言的效力
What do we learn from this conversation()
A. Jack is dependable.
B. Tom always tells the truth.
C. Jack is wealthy.
D. Tom is sometimes more foolish than Jack.
Passage 3 Taste is such a subjective matter that we don’t usually conduct preference tests for food. The most you can say about anyone’s preference, is that it’s one person’s opinion. But because the two big cola(乐饮料)companies--Coca- Cola and Pepsi Cola are marketed so aggressively, we’ve wondered how big a role taste preference actually plays in brand loyalty. We set up a taste test that challenged people who identified themselves as either Coca- Cola or Pepsi fans: Find your brand in a blind tasting. We invited staff volunteers who had a strong liking for either Coca - Cola Classic (传统型) or Pepsi, Diet(低糖)Coke, or Diet Pepsi. These were people who thought they’d have no trouble telling their brand from the other brand. We eventually located 19 regular cola drinkers and 27 diet cola drinkers. (80)Then we fed them four unidentified samples of cola one at a time, regular colas for the one group, diet versions for the other. We asked them to tell us whether each sample was Coke or Pepsi; then we analyzed the r6cords statistically to compare the participants’ choices with what mere guess - work could have accomplished. Getting all four samples right was a tough test, but not too tough, we thought, for people who believed they could recognize their brand. In the end, only 7 out of 19 regular cola drinkers correctly identified their brand of choice in all four trials. The diet - cola drinkers did a little worse--only 7 of 27 identified all four samples correctly. While both groups did better than chance would predict, nearly half the participants in each group made the wrong choice two or more times. Two people got all four samples wrong. Overall, half the participants did about as well on the last round of tasting as on the first, so fatigue, or taste burnout, was not a factor. Our preference test results suggest that only a few Pepsi participants and Coke fans may really be able to tell their favorite brand by taste and price. According to the passage the preference test was conducted in order to ______.
A. find out the role taste preference plays in a person’s drinking
B. reveal which cola is more to the liking of the drinkers
C. show that a person’s opinion about taste is mere guess - work
D. compare the ability of the participants in choosing their drinks