全国攻读工商管理硕士学位研究生入学考试英语预测试题参考答案及详细解答(3-5)
网络资源 免费考研网/2009-01-16
Question 31 to 35 are based on the following passage:
One supermarket in Tokyo has managed to solve the
problems of shoplifting mistakes by cashiers and long lines
of customers awaiting at cash registers. It is Japans
advanced computer technology that has come up with the
answers.
Shoppers at an OK supermarket on the outskirts of the
city now push a cart with a plastic card chained to it and
buy from glass cases where the goods are on display. The
plastic card has a magnetic number imprinted on it. Each
customer carries his or her own card, which is collected at
the entrance.While shopping, the customer pushes the card
into a narrow opening beside whichever items are wanted and
pushes a button or two.
The glass covered vending machines ( 自动售货机) are
connected to a computer that knows the price of every item
in the store. Prices of every purchase are added up
automatically. When she has finished shopping, the customer
hands her card to a cashier who feeds it to the register. A
second later the total comes out.
Shoplifting is physically impossible. "Once you touch
an article of trade, the computer remembers it no matter
how you hide it or even if you eat it on the spot," says
Osamu Enoki, spokesman for the Pass Engineering Corporation
which installed the system.
A cashier at the OK supermarket is now able to work 15
times faster than her colleague at a conventional
supermarket. Only two cashiers, for instance, are required
at the store, which sells 2,500 separate items. One man is
enough to keep the vending machines filled, because
whenever the stock for a certain commodity is about to run
out, a red lamp in the computer room warns him.
But there are disadvantages too: a customer cannot
change his or her mind about a purchase. Once touched, the
item cannot he put back. The customer must go through a
cashier with it first and get a refund later. There are
also no fresh vegetables or fish on sale -- everything is
prepackaged.
31. The supermarket has introduced the computerized system
__
A. in an attempt to prevent customers from stealing and
waiting
B. because the owners have lost so many carts in the past
C. to help them check up on the dishonest cashiers
D. because a customer has to solve the problems
32. If a customer wants to buy something he must
A. ask a cashier to package it
B. put a card in a slot and press a button
C. collect his or her card at the entrance
D. write out the magnetic card number
33. If a customer changes his mind about buying an item, he
can
A. put in his card, open the glass case and put the item
back
B. go directly to the owners and ask them to return the
money
C.only get money back after first paying for it at the
checkout
D. easily hand it back to the cashier at the check-out
34. The introduction of the new system has meant that
A. the supermarket can sell 15 times more items than before
B. the supermarket can greatly cut down the number of staff
C. the supermarket will have to sell 2,500 separate items
D. the supermarket will never run out of stocks
35. After reading "Shoplifting is physically
impossible... ", what could you understand "shoplifting
perhaps means?
A. To improve the shop
B. To touch a commodity in the shop
C. To buy a commodity in the shop
D. To steal articles from a store during shopping hours
参考答案:
31.A 为了防止冒充顾客偷窃商品以及在收款台排队等候的问题,日本在超市采用了先进的计算机技术。
32.B第二段末讲到顾客在购物时须将购物卡插入狭长孔中,然后按动按钮。
33.C 最后一段告诉我们顾客一旦选择了某种商品就不能立即改变主意,而须在付款后再退货。
34.B 从第五段中我们知道引进了计算机系统后,提高了工作效率,减少了工作人员。
35.D 由于采用插卡选购,所选的每一件商品在卡上都有记录,所以Shoplifting is physically impossible.的意思就是“冒充顾客行窍完全不能可能。”
(未完待续)
