二、阅读理解
Imagine you walk into a store. Strangely enough, you see no staff (店员) inside. You pick up things and prepare to wait in line and pay. But even more oddly, there is no cashier at all. So what has happened to this store?
Well, you may have entered Tao Café, a cashless store created by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba. In July, the public got to see the store for the first time at Alibaba’s Taobao Maker Festival in Hangzhou.
The 200-square-meter store sells drinks, fast food and snacks. It can hold up to 50 shoppers at a time. To enter and shop, people only need a smartphone with a Taobao app and an Alipay account (账户).
By scanning their Taobao QR code (二维码), shoppers are followed with cameras for facial recognition. The store has also digitalized (数字化) all goods and their placement on the shelves. So when shoppers pick up goods, the system will be able to “watch” and “remember” their selection.
When shoppers are ready to leave, they don’t wait in line to pay. Instead, they go through two checkout doors. Then the bills will be paid with a Taobao account connected to Alipay.
According to Alibaba, the checkout machines can recognize goods even when shoppers put them in pockets or bags. So it is almost impossible to steal things from the store.
Tao Café is not the only cashless store in China. A 24-hour convenience store with no staff called BingoBox opened in Shanghai in June. To enter the store, shoppers scan a QR code on WeChat or Alipay. But unlike the Tao Café, they have to scan another QR code to leave the BingoBox.
1. The underlined word “oddly” means “__________”.
A. strangely B. surprisingly C. importantly D. helpfully
2. To buy things from Tao Café, you need to have all of the following EXCEPT __________.
A. a smartphone B. a Taobao app C. an Alipay account D. two QR codes
3. What are paragraphs 4 and 5 mainly about?
A. How to check out in Tao Café. B. Why Tao Café needs cameras.
C. How the system in Tao Café works. D. When the bills are paid in the store.
4. What can we infer (推断) from the passage?
A. The elders would enjoy shopping in Tao Café.
B. Lots of things will be lost in the cashless store.
C. Shopping at BingoBox is the most convenient.
D. It saves people much time to shop at Tao Café.
【答案】1—4 ADCD
Imagine you walk into a store. Strangely enough, you see no staff (店员) inside. You pick up things and prepare to wait in line and pay. But even more oddly, there is no cashier at all. So what has happened to this store?
Well, you may have entered Tao Café, a cashless store created by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba. In July, the public got to see the store for the first time at Alibaba’s Taobao Maker Festival in Hangzhou.
The 200-square-meter store sells drinks, fast food and snacks. It can hold up to 50 shoppers at a time. To enter and shop, people only need a smartphone with a Taobao app and an Alipay account (账户).
By scanning their Taobao QR code (二维码), shoppers are followed with cameras for facial recognition. The store has also digitalized (数字化) all goods and their placement on the shelves. So when shoppers pick up goods, the system will be able to “watch” and “remember” their selection.
When shoppers are ready to leave, they don’t wait in line to pay. Instead, they go through two checkout doors. Then the bills will be paid with a Taobao account connected to Alipay.
According to Alibaba, the checkout machines can recognize goods even when shoppers put them in pockets or bags. So it is almost impossible to steal things from the store.
Tao Café is not the only cashless store in China. A 24-hour convenience store with no staff called BingoBox opened in Shanghai in June. To enter the store, shoppers scan a QR code on WeChat or Alipay. But unlike the Tao Café, they have to scan another QR code to leave the BingoBox.
1. The underlined word “oddly” means “__________”.
A. strangely B. surprisingly C. importantly D. helpfully
2. To buy things from Tao Café, you need to have all of the following EXCEPT __________.
A. a smartphone B. a Taobao app C. an Alipay account D. two QR codes
3. What are paragraphs 4 and 5 mainly about?
A. How to check out in Tao Café. B. Why Tao Café needs cameras.
C. How the system in Tao Café works. D. When the bills are paid in the store.
4. What can we infer (推断) from the passage?
A. The elders would enjoy shopping in Tao Café.
B. Lots of things will be lost in the cashless store.
C. Shopping at BingoBox is the most convenient.
D. It saves people much time to shop at Tao Café.
【答案】1—4 ADCD
