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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 a-
doption 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 e-tailers are talking about is a new one from Carnegie Mellon University, which has found that shopping online via Buy. com's e-commerce model for electronic products uses 35 percent less energy consumption and C02 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 ex- perience; anything else could leave you feeling short change.
56. The main idea of the first paragraph is________
[A] The economy remains depression.
[B] More and more people like to choose online shopping.
[ C] Shopping center are growing.
[D] Online shopping is cheaper than shopping center.
第1题
A.①②③
B.①②④
C.②③④
D.①③④
第3题
A.集合年金计划由多个企业联合建立、参与,同时为多个企业委托人提供标准化管理和服务
B.集合计划的责任主体是受托人,而且只能是法人受托
C.集合计划由投资管理人发起,包括一个账户管理人,一个托管人,若干受托管理人
D.集合计划合适于中小企业参加
第5题
A.集合计划企业年金
B. 单一计划企业年金
C. 多计划企业年金
D. 统筹计划企业年金
第6题
企业年金受托人受托管理企业年金,受托人在企业年金计划运行中的具体职责包括()。
Ⅰ.选择、监督、更换账户管理人、托管人、投资管理人等
Ⅱ.制定企业年金基金的投资策略
Ⅲ.编制企业年金基金管理和财务会计报告
Ⅳ.对企业年金基金的管理进行监督
Ⅴ.收取企业和职工缴费,并向受益人支付年金
A.Ⅰ、Ⅲ、Ⅴ
B.Ⅱ、Ⅲ、Ⅴ
C.Ⅰ、Ⅱ、Ⅳ、Ⅴ
D.Ⅰ、Ⅱ、Ⅲ、Ⅳ、Ⅴ
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