专业英语八级（作文）模拟试卷292
写作
1. The following two excerpts are about unmanned stores, a new sales model launched in some big cities. From the excerpts, you can find that the sales model seems to have achieved much success, but there has also been doubt and criticism.
Write an article of NO LESS THAN 300 WORDS, in which you should:
1. summarize the different views on unmanned stores, and then
2. express your opinion toward the sales model, especially how to address the major problems facing unmanned stores’ future path.
Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.
Unmanned Stores Are Set to Boom
No queues and no checkouts. Just grab what you need and go. As much as it may sound like shoplifting, this is the future of grocery shopping, first envisioned by Amazon. But Chinese companies may have jumped ahead, beating the US online retail giant in turning the concept into reality.
Enabled by mobile payment and supported by an array of advanced technologies including facial recognition and voice recognition, unmanned convenience stores have become the latest trend in China’s ever changing tech scene.
Little-known tech start-up BingoBox, based in China’s Guangdong Province, has made its name in China this summer by opening its first unmanned convenience store in Shanghai, where 25 million urban dwellers depend heavily on 24-hour stores for convenience. In a container-like structure stocked with products supplied by French supermarket chain Auchan, BingoBox lets customers go shopping after they are admitted via facial recognition to the 10-square metre area. The security measures ensure that those inside the store are customers and not shoplifters who enter illegally. Sensors and cameras scattered throughout the area identify items in the shoppers’ carts and automatically charge the customers’ WeChat Wallet, a smartphone-enabled mobile payment run by Tencent, as they walk out the door.
With a dozen such stores under trial operation in China, BingoBox is looking to beat much bigger companies to become the first to commercialize the grab-and-go shopping model on a national scale. \\
Unmanned Stores, to Stay or to Go?
In recent years, China’s retail industry has seen some innovation as some companies deploy their unmanned stores in some major cities. The birth of anything new is bound to stir up a lot of controversies and the emergence of unmanned stores is no exception. Some people hail it as a thing of the future and they seem to have sound reasons to suggest that unmanned stores have attracted the eyeballs of countless people with the advantages of novelty, high-technology and low labor costs. However, others support the idea of banning unmanned stores because of its drawbacks exposed, such as high operating costs, high commodity prices and unworkability for those who are lacking in interest in high-tech products. As far as I am concerned, unmanned stores, a new, quick and convenient shopping mode, have a knock-on certainty to find favor in people’s eyes. What should command our highest priority is how to seek the knack of finding a positive for every negative, and viewing a setback as a challenge.
How can we
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