Task 3 Conversation: The following is an
article about web station. After reading it, you are required to complete the
outline below it (No. 46 through No. 50). You should write your answers briefly
(in no more than 3 words) on the Answer Sheet correspondingly.
Rather than fight the crowds in the Chicago and San Francisco
areas, thousands of busy people log on (登陆) to the Peapod, an online shopping
and delivery service. Peapod is giving us a look into the future of retailing
(零售业 ) -the virtual store. Peapod is a pioneer in a rapidly expanding industry
that is devoted to enabling us to buy almost anything from PC.
Peapod’s online shopping system is linked directly to its partner store’s
computer systems. When you send your shopping list to Peapod, an order is
delivered to the nearest partner store. A professionally trained shopper takes
your order, grabs (抓) a shopping cart, and does your shopping for you. The
professional shopper takes a fraction of the time you would take because the
list is ordered by aisle (栏) and the shopper knows exactly what to get. The
system saves people time and money. Busy people in Chicago and
San Francisco do their shopping by entering (46) .
Peapod is an online (47) service.
Peapod system is linked directly to its (48) computer
system. In the Peapod system, (49) does the
shopping for the client. Peapod system can save people
(50) .