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Shopping has become a private affair. Obvious consumption does not look good during a depression , which explains why so many of
Shopping has become a private affair. Obvious consumption does not look good during a depression , which explains why so many of
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2011-04-05
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Shopping has become a private affair. Obvious consumption does not look good during a depression , which explains why so many of us are accepting e-commerce. Online shopping on these shores is projected to grow from sales of £ 8.9bn to around £ 21. 3bn by the end of 2,011.
Often people proclaim they’ve accepted e-commerce because it’s "green". This is understandable. If many shopping bags in a depression looks bad, bricks and mortar retail — huge out-of-town shopping centres, retail shopping center that insist on leaving their doors open even in winter and grocery stores full of the most inefficient freezers — look terrible during an ecological emergency.
Should we buy the idea that e-commerce is any better? Several studies have tried to answer this with cold, hard data.
A 2,000 study on Webvan, a now disappearing US online grocer, concluded that a wider adoption of e-commerce would not give us environmental gains, while a 2,002 study of US book retailing found no greater energy savings selling online. But the study that all etailers are talking a-bout is a new one from Carnegie Mellon University, which has found that shopping online via Buy. corn’s e-commerce model for electronic products uses 35 percent less energy consumption and CO2 emissions than a traditional bricks model.
This is largely because it avoids the usual retail distribution model and, of course, the impact of consumers driving to a store. And, from the shopper’s perspective, online buying often allows you to avoid the desire for retail.
But both models are flawed, because online or on the high street, retailers are dependent on a hydrocarbon-fuelled delivery system. Trucks deliver 4. 8m tonnes of freight each day in the UK, which works out at about 80kg per person. To make matters worse, after a truck drops off the goods it often returns empty to the depot. A 2002 study of 20,000 transportation trips found that only 2.4% of return journey legs found suitable backloads. This journey represents a large part of the impact of what we buy.
Online shopping may prove marginally more green in terms of energy saving, but we shouldn’t forget progressive retail. Places such as Ludlow in Shropshire, a fairtrade town based on ethical trading ideas, where the independent high street has been hard won. It brings consumers face to face with products with shortened supply chain and with values. This is a wiser and wider retail experience; anything else could leave you feeling short change.
The text implies that
选项
A、Both ways of shopping have their own defects.
B、Shopping online is better than that in the shopping center.
C、Shopping in the center will consume less hydrocarbon.
D、Shopping in the high street needs to drive.
答案
A
解析
根据第六段第一句“But both models are flawed,because online or on the high street.retailers are dependent on a hydrocarbon fuelled delivery system.”可知,A项符合文意。同时可知,两种购物方式都需要消耗碳氢化合物,但并没有提及哪种方式消耗得少,B项意为网上购物要比在商场购物好,该内容文章没有提及。C项意为在商场购物消耗更少的碳氢化合物,根据文意“online or on the high street.retailers are dependent on a hydrocarbon—fuelled delivery system”可知这两种购物方式都需要消耗碳氢化合物,根据“To make matters worse,after a truck drops off the goods it often returns empty to the depot”可知在商业街购物应消耗更多的碳氢化合物,该项与文意相反。D项意为在商业街购物需要驾车,根据文意两种购物方式都需要驾车,该项不符合文意。此题选择A项。
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