You’ve got the butter, the eggs, the organic salad greens and the laundry soap. And so you make your way to the front of the grocery store, which is where you’ll face your moment of truth:
Will you step in behind the mom with a wiggly baby and a full cart? Or take your chances with the young couple you spotted arguing over the best milk in Aisle 3B?
Better make up your mind, quick. Because, faster than the guy with “just one item” who’s about to cut in line, this whole scene is going to disappear.
Amazon recently opened its own convenience store, Amazon Go, in Seattle. It’s the first of its kind: a truly cashless grocery experience in which shoppers enter through gates that look like subway turnstiles (闸机), take what they want from the shelves and exit the way they came. No carts, no lines, no waiting. The store accurately lists what you take and charges your Amazon account, efficiently delivering an electronic receipt after you’ve left. Like most things that Amazon does, this smells like inevitability. We know, as surely as we knew the day that first Amazon box showed up on the doorstep, that the future of shopping has arrived.
Like all progress, it comes at a cost. “Based on data”, says Manoj Thomas, a professor of marketing at Cornell University, “we know that when people use any abstract form of payment, they spend more. And the type of products they choose changes too.”
Decades of psychological research has reinforced the knowledge that the further we are removed from “the pain of paying,” the less we understand how much were really spending. “If you are paying by credit card,” says Thomas, “you might pause at the checkout and suddenly think,” Should I be buying this? “Or if you are paying cash, that reflection happens at the very beginning. Both will be gone with the Amazon store.” Unhealthy impulse purchases and overspending will result from it, he says. “Both are completely related because they are influenced by our impulse urges.”
Win Is Thomas advocating that we all make a run for the atm and attempt to turn back time by using old hard currency? “No, no, no,” he says.
He envisions a world in which you’ll be able to set budget or calorie limits on an app that will recognize when you pick up unhealthy or budget-busting items and will warn you that they fall outside your goals. He expresses confidence that there is some tech hero out there right now, figuring out this exact solution to keep us all on the straight and narrow.
1.What does the underlined phrase “this whole scene” in Paragraph 2 refer to?
A.Customers arguing over the best item. B.Customers lining up at the checkout.
C.Customers cutting in line for the bargains. D.Customers doing shopping with their babies.
2.What might you experience if you do shopping in Amazon Go?
A.Less “pain of paying” at the checkout counter.
B.Convenient entering through subway turnstiles.
C.Overspending on more than you actually need.
D.Quicker delivering of goods to your car.
3.Manoj Thomas probably holds the view that ________.
A.abstract payment contributes to market prosperity
B.impulse consumption may be regulated with the new app
C.extra spending will surely not happen with the warning of the app
D.it is better for people to use cash or credit cards to avoid overspending
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*First-year fall applicants
*Transfer students through the transfer admission process
How to Apply
For each class, we bring together a varied mix of high-achieving, intellectually gifted students from diverse backgrounds to create an exceptional learning community.
We care about what students have accomplished in and out of the classroom. The process is highly selective. In recent years, we’ve offered admission to less than 7 percent of applicants.
As you prepare your application, help us to appreciate your talents, academic accomplishments and personal achievements. We’ll ask for your transcript (成绩单) and recommendations, and we will want to know more than just the statistics in your file. Tell us your story. Show us what’s special about you. Tell us how you would seize the academic and nonacademic opportunities at Princeton and contribute to the Princeton community. Above all, please write in a style that reflects your own voice.
Princeton accepts the Coalition Application and Common Application. Princeton treats them all equally. To apply, you will need to submit online either the Coalition Application or the Common Application, plus the Princeton Supplement.
When to Apply
You have two choices for applying to Princeton for first-year admission—single-choice early action or regular decision. Before you begin preparing your application, we strongly encourage you to review our standardized testing policy, which includes detailed information regarding our standardized testing requirements.
*Single-choice Early Action, also known as restrictive early action (If you have thoroughly researched your college options and have decided that Princeton is your first choice)
Nov. 1 Application Due
Nov. 9 Princeton Financial Aid Application Due
*Regular Decision
Jan. 1 Application Due
Feb. 1 Princeton Financial Aid Application Due
1.What should be included in the application to Princeton University?
A.Talents that you have great appreciation for.
B.Stories that reflect what people think of you.
C.Statistics that show your academic accomplishments.
D.Contributions that you have made to the Princeton community.
2.We can learn from the passage that ________.
A.transfer students are not qualified for application
B.students need to submit their application by fax
C.the chance of being admitted is relatively low
D.applicants should take Princeton as their single choice
Struggling to Let Go of My College-Student Daughter
When I sent my daughter, Emma, off for her freshman year of college a few years ago, I was sad down to my bones.
Indeed, this is the season when countless articles are published recommending helicopter parents to stop hovering (盘旋) so much. _________ based on Emma’s college schedule “helicopter children” may be more _________.
The first one out of my _________ has come fluttering back home nearly every month of the year. In the meantime, _________ keeps our children connected far more than I was with my _________ in the late 70s. I used to call home once a week from a pay phone. Emma calls, texts or e-mails me almost every day.
Given all this, missing Emma seems kind of _________; I’ve never really gotten the chance. So why, then, have I still felt that I’ve experienced a great _________?
All Summer long _________ Emma left that first year, I cried _________—at everything. I took Emma out for countless mother-daughter breakfasts, lunches, coffees and walks.
At the same time, I was unusually __________. In my eyes, Emma had spent the weeks going out with her friends too much, not working enough and __________ not spending enough time with me!
Although it’s taken quite a while to __________ what was happening, I now understand that my unhappiness and anxiety are not a(n) __________ of how much time Emma and I spend together.
__________ how often she comes home, Emma is now gone in a far grander sense. She is well on the road to __________, and from this, she will never __________.
I know full well that this is completely __________. And I take pride and joy in seeing Emma make her way so confidently and capably. She’s going to be fine and we will always remain __________.
Nonetheless, Emma’s going to college has __________ the passing of something that I cherished—her childhood and my __________ to her as a child—and I can’t help being a little sad about that.
1.A.So B.But C.And D.Or
2.A.ambiguous B.formal C.accurate D.dull
3.A.nest B.favour C.way D.head
4.A.love B.technology C.respect D.responsibility
5.A.classmates B.teachers C.colleagues D.parents
6.A.addictive B.accessible C.absurd D.adorable
7.A.insight B.loss C.shift D.belief
8.A.after B.before C.since D.beyond
9.A.openly B.angrily C.loudly D.constantly
10.A.critical B.punctual C.economical D.practical
11.A.certainly B.exactly C.probably D.gradually
12.A.reject B.neglect C.dismiss D.realize
13.A.composition B.collection C.application D.reflection
14.A.Apart from B.Instead of C.Regardless of D.According to
15.A.innocence B.adulthood C.happiness D.success
16.A.return B.respond C.regret D.recover
17.A.apparent B.excellent C.unique D.normal
18.A.close B.guilty C.distant D.indifferent
19.A.contradicted B.defined C.signaled D.recalled
20.A.complaint B.cruelty C.relationship D.disappointment
—Don’t be nervous when you have a CT picture taken, OK?
—________.
A.Well, I won’ t B.That’s true C.Yes, I’d love to D.OK, I will
—________, and every man his hour.
—But mine seems a very long time coming.
A.a cat has nine lives B.Rats desert a sinking ship
C.Every dog has his day D.Fine feathers make fine birds
Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, died hopelessly, ________ against the floor by a policeman for nine minutes, which gave rise to protests throughout the USA
A.having pinned B.to be pinning C.pinning D.having been pinned
