托福阅读背景知识之亚马逊还能走多远.pdfVIP

托福培训 / 托福阅读背景知识之亚马逊还能走多远 作为托福考试的第一个考项，阅读考试往往是考生寄予厚望的考试，想要获取高分托福，阅读成 绩就不能太过普通，否则托福高分的机会将大大减少。大家虽然耗费了很长的一段时间在托福阅读 上，但是想要拿高分却不是件容易的事，接下来100教育的名师为大家分享托福阅读素材之亚马逊还能 走多远，希望对大家有所帮助。 It has upended industries and changed the way the world shops. But itshould beware of abusing its power 亚马逊颠覆了传统产业，甚至改变了世界的消费方式。但现在应该谨防它滥用其主导地位。 WHEN Jeff Bezos left his job in finance and moved to Seattle 20 years agoto start a new firm, he rented a house with a garage, as that was where thelikes of Apple and HP had been born. Although he started selling books, hecalled the firm Amazon because a giant river reflected the scale of hisambitions. This week the worlds leading e-commerce company unveiled its firstsmartphone, which Amazon treats less as a communication device than an ingeniousshopping platform and a way of gathering data about people in order to make evenmore accurate product recommendations. 20年前，当杰夫·贝佐斯从金融行业辞职来到西雅图时，他租了一套带有车库的房子，在此之前，像苹果 和惠普等巨头都是从类似这样的车库里诞生的。虽然杰夫是以卖书起家的，但他却给公司起名为亚马逊 ，以这条流域最广的河流命名，充分的彰显了其野心。本周，这家全球领先的电子商务公司，推出了其 首款智能手机，但在亚马逊看来，其主要目的并不是这款通讯设备，而是开创一个独特的购物平台，以 及创建一个用户数据收集平台，以便更好的了解客户需求，并推出相应的产品。 The smartphone is typical of Amazon. There is the remorseless expansion: ifyou can deliver books and washing machines, why not a phone? There is theability to switch between the real world of atoms and the digital world of bits:Amazon has one of the worlds most impressive physical distribution systems,even as it has branched out into cloud computing, e-books, video streaming andmusic downloads (see article). There is the drive for market share overimmediate profits. And there is the slightly creepy feeling that Amazon knowstoo much about its users already. So far its insatiable appetite has helpedconsumers; but as it grows in size and power the danger is that it will go toofar. 这款智能手机极具亚马逊的特色。它始终在坚持不懈的扩张其业务：如果你能配送书和洗衣机，那为什 么不能配送手机呢?它有着在现实世界和数字空间之间交替跳跃的能力。亚马逊拥有世界上最令人钦佩的 物