Four years ago, we asked ourselves: what if we could create a shopping experience with no waiting in lines and no checkout? Or could we create a physical store where customers could simply take what they want and go? Our answer to those questions is Amazon Go, where yocould experience the idea of “just walk out shopping”.

Amazon Go is a new kind of store with no checkout required. We created the world’s most advanced shopping technology, so yonever have to wait in line. With our “just walk out shopping” experience, simply use the Amazon Go app to enter the store, take the products yowant, and go! No lines, no checkout.

Our checkout-free shopping experience is made possible by the same types of technologies used in self-driving cars: computer vision, sensor fusion(融合), and deep learning. Our “just walk out technology” automatically detects when products are taken from or returned to the shelves and keeps track of them in your virtual cart. When you’ve done shopping, yocan just leave the store. Shortly after, we’ll charge your Amazon account and send yoa receipt(收据).

We offer delicious ready-to-eat breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack choices made fresh every day by our on-site chefs and favorite local kitchens and bakeries. Our selection of foodstuff ranges from bread and milk to cheeses and locally made chocolates. You’ll find well-known brands welove, plus special finds we’re excited to introduce to customers. For a quick home-cooked dinner, pick up one of our chef-designed Amazon Meal Kits, and yocan make a meal for two in about 30 minutes.

Our 1,800-square-foot shopping space is conveniently compact(紧凑的), so busy customers can get in and out fast. It is located at 2131, 7th Ave, Seattle, WA, on the corner of 7th Avenue and Blanchard Street. All yoneed is an Amazon account, a supported smartphone, and the free Amazon Go app.

Amazon Go is now only open to Amazon employees in our testing program, and will be open to the public soon.

12. From the passage, we can learn that Amazon Go _________.

A. is a checkout-free store B. sells all kinds of goods

C. is open to the public D. uses unknown technologies

13. What is mainly discussed in Paragraph 3?

A. When Amazon Go charges. B. How Amazon Go works.

C. Where Amazon Go lies. D. What Amazon Go sells.

14. Customers pay for the products from Amazon Go by _________.

A. paying cash at the counter

B. walking out of the store

C. using their Amazon accounts

D. scanning smartphones when leaving

15. What is the author’s purpose in writing the text?

A. To encourage people to shop online.

B. To advise people to work for Amazon.

C. To inform people of a new concept store.

D. To tell people of the shopping experience.

第二节 (共5小题;每小题2分，满分10分)

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Do yoknow how to deal with failure at school? Here are four steps that will help yoget the most out of each failure, and move on.

16 When yofeel bad after failing, talk with your parents or a good friend, or any other adult. Then decide to take the responsibility to improve yourself. Read the teacher’s comments on your test carefully.

Ask yourself what your were trying to do and why yofailed. 17 Maybe yodidn’t have all the information yoneeded; maybe yomade a mistake or a poor decision. If so, give yourself a pat in the back. Fewer people ever get something right the first time they try it, and often it takes them many times. 18 Sometimes the failure isn’t because of something yodid or didn’t do; it is someone else’s fault. But don’t spend time blaming them; instead, move on toward your goals.

Don’t give up easily. 19 There is a difference between making a decision and giving up. Deciding to follow a better way is one thing; simply walking away means yoreally have failed.

Keep trying again. Successful people are different because they choose their next steps instead of just reacting to feelings. If a goal is still important to you, figure out what to do and go after it again. 20

A. No pains, no gains.

B. Failure is unavoidable.

C. If it isn’t, do your best on something else.

D. Remove your bad feelings.

E. Actually it was because yowere lazy.

F. Review the situation to see what your choices are.

G. Usually it was because yowere trying out a new skill or learning a new subject.

第二部分 英语知识运用(共两节，满分45分)

第一节 完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分，满分30分)

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

I stayed for a while in Costa Rica years ago. One morning I was21 in a local market. I had parked my car a few blocks away at Firestone. An hour into my shopping, I22 in my purse for my phone. I dug 23 searching and searching ... no phone! Perhaps my phone fell out 24 got stolen by somebody.