Question

    With Chinese consumers hit by quarantine （隔离期）and travel restrictions as well as just cautious about going out to the shops due to the coronavirus epidemic（流行病），companies in China are experimenting with new tricks to make sales.

Oil giant Sinopec — keen to get customers back in their cars and help farmers due to roadblocks — launched a new project last month called "zerotouch" vegetable sales at its 6,000 gas stations in 147 Chinese cities. Consumers place and pay for orders on the app and when they drive up, gas station employees put the vegetables into their car trunk, eliminating any need for human-to-human contact.

"The coronavirus outbreak has made it difficult for people to shop as before," said Li Hong， vice president of Sinopec's convenience store sales division. "Travel demand has been falling, but demand for food is pretty rigid."

Mengniu Dairy, China's dairy producer, is racing to add more vending machines to the 10,000 it currently has, saying the epidemic has driven unexpectedly strong demand for the sales channel. Its system allows customers to order products like milk and yoghurt online which can then be picked up from their local vending machine. "The virus outbreak has decreased consumption for dairy products as people are unwilling to go to the supermarket," said Meng Fanjie, head of the company's Communist Party committee. Luckin Coflfee, a competitive rival to Starbucks, now also offers the sanitizer (消毒） products （e.g. hand soap） besides coffee. Liu Xingliaging, an independent retait analyst, said, however, that Luckin's strategy would have only a modest impact. “At best some users will place an order when they buy coffee, but nobody is deliberately choosing the Luckin app just to buy sanitizer.”

1.According to the passage, why did some companies adopt new selling methods?

A.Citizens were not allowed to go out.

B.The demand for travel and food declined sharply.

C.The coronavirus epidemic changed people's way of life.

D.Companies desired to grasp the chance to defeat their competitors.

2.What does the underlined word "eliminating" in Paragraph 2 most probably refer to?

A.meeting B.removing

C.decreasing D.limiting

3.The passage is written mainly to          .

A.illustrate the difficulty caused by the coronavirus epidemic

B.explain the changes made by some companies in the epidemic

C.describe the challenges some companies met during the epidemic

D.reveal the intelligence people showed in the coronavirus epidemic

Answer

1.C

2.B

3.B

【解析】

本文是新闻报道，文章讲述了由于冠状病毒的流行而对外出购物持谨慎态度，中国企业正在尝试“无接触”模式的新销售手段。

1.细节理解题，考查获取事实性信息的能力。由第一段的“With Chinese consumers hit by quarantine （隔离期）and travel restrictions as well as just cautious about going out to the shops due to the coronavirus epidemic（流行病），companies in China are experimenting with new tricks to make sales.”（随着中国消费者受到检疫和旅行限制的打击，以及由于冠状病毒的流行而对外出购物持谨慎态度，中国企业正在尝试新的销售手段。），可知是因为冠状病毒的流行改变了人们的生活方式，企业才采用新的销售手段。故选C项。

2.词义猜测题，考查根据上下文推断单词的含义。由第二段第一句“Oil giant Sinopec — keen to get customers back in their cars and help farmers due to roadblocks — launched a new project last month called "zerotouch" vegetable sales at its 6,000 gas stations in 147 Chinese cities.”（石油巨头中石化上个月在147个中国城市的6000个加油站启动了一个名为“零接触”蔬菜销售的新项目。）和其中的“Consumers place and pay for orders on the app and when they drive up, gas station employees put the vegetables into their car trunk, eliminating any need for human-to-human contact.”（消费者在应用程序上下订单并付款，当他们驱车来到时，加油站员工将蔬菜放入汽车后备箱，消除了任何人与人之间的接触。），可知中石化启动了“零接触”蔬菜销售的新项目，所以是eliminating（消除）了人与人的接触，用removing（去掉）代替。故选B项。

3.主旨大意题，考查理解主旨要义的能力。文章第一段点明文章大意，即由于冠状病毒的流行而对外出购物持谨慎态度，中国企业正在尝试“无接触”模式的新销售手段；第二至四段进行举例说明，第二至三段讲中石化因疫情采取“零接触”蔬菜销售的新项目；第四段讲蒙牛也因疫情采取了网上订购产品，然后从当地的自动售货机上取货的新销售模式；所以本文主要讲一些公司在疫情期间所做的改变。故选B项。