2018届高考英语一轮复习 Module 5 The Conquest of the Universe Great People and Great Inventions课时作业提升练 外研版必修3.docVIP

Module 5 The Conquest of the Universe Great People and Great Inventions (建议用时35分钟) Ⅰ. 阅读理解 A 　　Picture the scene. You’re on your way home when you remember the fridge is empty but you don’t have a pound for the trolley(手推车)and parking is a nightmare. Or you promised to pick up a six-pack of beer on the way to a friend’s party but it’s pouring with rain and parking is still a nightmare. Wouldn’t it be great if you could pick up what you need without getting out of your car? Russian inventor Dahir Kurmanbievich has thought of a drive-through supermarket that would make all that possible. A customer would drive up to an available bay, much like in a petrol station, and while remaining in the car, select the goods by operating with a button. These goods are placed immediately onto a conveyor(传输)belt, where they travel a few feet to the checkout. When finished, the customer drives forward, pays for the goods and drives off with them. Mr Kurmanbievich said the invention is directed at “solving the technical problem of improving the quality of customer service while providing probable convenience and choice of products, reducing time to service customers, cutting the queue time and lowering the costs of the supermarket”. So-called drive-through supermarkets have already been tried by some big supermarkets, but these operate more like click-and-collect services as customers have to order their goods online between two hours and three weeks in advance. While the drive-through supermarket would need a lot of space and infrastructure(基础设施)investment to get off the ground, it would combine the consumer’s convenience and speed of buying goods online with the sales opportunities that come with product discovery on store shelves. It’s great while fuel prices are low. The question is: will driverless cars be able to do the shopping? 1. What can you do in a drive-through supermarket? A. You can park your car wherever you like. B. You can buy what you want in your car.