Four years ago, we asked ourselves: what if we could create a shopping experience with no waiting in lines and no checkout? Or could we create a physical store where customers could simply take what they want and go? Our answer to those questions is Amazon Go, where you could experience the idea of “just walk out shopping”.
Amazon Go is a new kind of store with no checkout required. We created the world’s most advanced shopping technology, so you never have to wait in line. With our “just walk out shopping” experience, simply use the Amazon Go app to enter the store, take the products you want, and go! No lines, no checkout.
Our checkout-free shopping experience is made possible by the same types of technologies used in self-driving cars: computer vision, sensor fusion, and deep learning. Our “just walk out technology” automatically detects when products are taken from or returned to the shelves and keeps track of them in your virtual cart. When you’re done shopping, you can just leave the store. Shortly after, we’ll charge your Amazon account and send you a receipt.
We offer delicious ready-to-eat breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack options made fresh every day by our on-site chefs and favorite local kitchens and bakeries. Our selection of foodstuff ranges from bread and milk to cheeses and locally made chocolates. You’ll find well-known brands we love, plus special finds we’re excited to introduce to customers. For a quick home-cooked dinner, pick up one of our chef-designed Amazon Meal Kits, and you can make a meal for two in about 30 minutes.
Our 1,800-square-foot shopping space is conveniently compact(紧凑的), so busy customers
can get in and out fast. It is located at 2131, 7th Ave, Seattle, WA, on the corner of 7th Avenue and Blanchard Street. All you need is an Amazon account, a supported smartphone, and the free Amazon Go app.
Amazon Go is currently only open to Amazon employees in our testing program, and will be open to the public soon.
1.From the passage, we can learn that Amazon Go .
A. is a checkout-free store B. sells all kinds of goods
C. is open to the public D. uses unknown technologies
2.What is mainly discussed in Paragraph 3?
A. When Amazon Go charges. B. How Amazon Go works.
C. Where Amazon Go lies. D. What Amazon Go sells.
3.Customers pay for the products from Amazon Go by .
A. paying cash at the counter B. walking out of the store
C. using their Amazon accounts D. scanning smartphones when leaving
4.The main purpose of the passage is to .
A. encourage people to shop online B. advise people to work for Amazon
C. inform people of a new concept store D. tell people of the shopping experience
I am Henry Jekyll. I was born in the 1800s. I inherited(继承) a large fortune, a healthy body and an excellent mind. I was naturally hard-working and soon I was very successful in my job. So the outside world saw a serious, hard-working, successful doctor. Behind this quiet character, however, was a wild, fun-loving, irresponsible young man. Both of them were me. They lived together in the same body.
“Was it possible,” I wondered, “to find a drug that could give each side of my character its own separate face and body?”
After much thought and careful study I believed I had found the answer. I had read many scientific books and spent many hours in my laboratory, searching for the right mixture of chemicals to make my drug. At last I got everything ready.
Late one night, I mixed everything together and prepared my drug. I watched the smoke rising from the liquid as its color changed from red to purple and at last to green. Then, bravely, I drank every bitter drop.
I felt a violent sickness in my stomach and a terrible pain in all my bones. The room seemed to turn round and round and I trembled with fear. Then the fear and pain disappeared and a strange, sweet feeling took its place. Wild thoughts danced through my mind—the wild passions of an evil and cruel stranger. But inside myself I felt younger, lighter, more carefree than ever before. “If this is pure evil,” I thought, “I like it.”
I stood there, enjoying these strange new thoughts and passions and suddenly realized that I was shorter. So I decided to go to my bedroom in my new body and take a look at myself in the mirror there. As I came into my room, I saw Edward Hyde for the first time.
At that time, the good side of my character was stronger than the evil side. Henry Jekyll had his faults, but he was mostly a good, kind man. I believe that is the reason why Edward Hyde was so much smaller than Henry Jekyll. But that was not the only difference between the two men. Henry Jekyll had a kind, open, honest face. But pure evil stared out of Edward Hyde’s eyes. I felt no dislike, however. Indeed, I welcomed him. Edward Hyde was me, young and strong and full of life.
1.In others’ eyes, the writer was ______.
A. wild and successful B. fun-loving and responsible
C. quiet and irresponsible D. serious and hard-working
2.The writer wanted to find a drug to ______.
A. discover the right mixture of chemicals
B. create separate bodies for both sides
C. observe the change of the chemicals
D. make himself smaller but stronger
3.From the passage we can learn that the writer ______.
A. felt quite delighted right after taking the drug
B. preferred kind Henry to pure evil Edward
C. was very sick of the shorter Edward Hyde
D. was satisfied with both of his bodies[
假定你是李华，你校外籍教师Miss Rose常常在课余时间辅导你英语口语，使你在上周学校举行的英语演讲比赛中荣获第一名。为此，你决定写一封感谢信，对Miss Rose的帮助表示真诚的感谢。
注意：1.文章包括上述内容，可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
2.词数100左右；
3．信的开头和结尾已为你写好，但不计入总词数。
Dear Miss Rose,
I am writing to you
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I’m looking forward to hearing from you.
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
1.It is clear that his painting style _________ ___________ __________（仿造）that of Xu Beihong.
2._________ ___________（难怪）the children are excited — this is the first they’ve been abroad.
3.My son didn’t feel completely _________ ___________（自在）in the strange surroundings.
4.The two men promised each other to keep the secret, but finally one of them ____________ ______________________ ___________（背弃）the other.
5.I spent my holiday in the countryside last summer and I _________ ___________ __________（感到满足）my life there.
1.Detective novels used to hold a special _____(吸引) for me.
2.My brother’s opinions would often s ________ from one extreme to the other.
3.The boy was __________(好奇的)about everything he saw.
4.Mike ______（猛冲）into the room, grabbed his bag, and ran out again.
5.National Day was celebrated t_________the country.
Do you like trying different things? Are you afraid 1. things that you think you’re bad at?
Last year I started to learn t’ at chi in order to improve my health and reduce my stress. It was something new for me, and I found it to be quite difficult, very 2. (difference) form anything I’d ever learned before. Small 3.move） are important in t’ ai chi. I was used to being fast and active ,4. to learn t’ ai chi I had to learn patience. Now I’ve found that I’m a much more patient person than before, and t’ ai chi isn’t nearly as difficult as it 5.(be ) before.
We tend 6.(like) things we are good at — that’s normal. For example, I’m naturally very good at badminton and tennis, but I’m very had at anything 7.involves keeping balance, such as skating, skiing and gymnastics. T’ ai chi has 8. (great) improved my balance which has been a very good thing for me.
My point is that you can keep 9.(do) the things you know you’re good at and live in your comfort zone, or you can try something new. If you don’t try new things, you’ll never know what it would be like to try something new. Challenge 10. (you). It will definitely pay off in the end.
