2019版高考英语一轮基础达标选题Unit5Thepowerofnature（含解析）新人教版选修.docVIP

PAGE PAGE 1 Unit 5 The power of nature 李仕才 一、阅读理解。 ??? Imagine getting a soft drink from a robot machine using only your smart phone. Or scanning a QR code (二维码) to buy goods from a newspaper ad. ??? By making use of these new technologies, China mobile shopping is a bit ahead of the United States. China is still the worlds largest smart phone market, even though growth is slow. It accounts for about 30 percent of the global smart phone market, and Chinese smart phone users are expected to jump from 526.8 million to 640 million in 2018, according to eMarketer. And its shoppers are using their instruments to rush to purchase a wide range of goods and services. Nearly half of all Chinas e-commerce sales, totaling $505.7 billion, are made with mobile devices, versus roughly one-quarter in the US, according to eMarketer. By 2019, Chinas mobile sales will account for 71 percent of those sales. ??? “We dont see mobile buying staying unchangeable for the next five years,” said Monica Pearl, eMarketers director of forecasting. “Itll increase because consumer behavior has changed.” Featureshy;rich(功能多样的), cheap smart phones are also helping fuel the boom, she added. ??? “China is, after all, a mobile first market,” explains Brian Buchwald, CEO of consumer intelligence firm Bomoda. So it has been able to go beyond other markets, which mainly used PCs for purchases. ??? Meanwhile, the Chinese government has allowed a free-flowing retail and payments marketplace. “There are no restraints(约束),” said Michael Zakkour, vice president of China / Asia Pacific practice at Tompkins International. ??? And thats good news for WeChat, a messaging app thats only five years old and is offered by the Internet giant Tencent. The app now has 650 million users. And a good mass of them are using the app for mobile shopping. The result is that?WeChat payments, along with Alibabas Alipay, lead the market. Because retailers can easily set up shops inside WeChat, users can plan family vacations,