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2018年温州大学英语基础考研真题621.doc 2018 年硕 士研究 生 招生 考 试试 题 科目代 码及名称: 621 英 语基础 适 用 专业：英语语 言文学 （ 请考 生在答 题纸 上答题 ，在 此试题 纸上 答题无 效 ） Part One Blank-filling ( 本节 共 20 分) For each blank in the following passage you are requested to fill in only ONE word. Fast and Dirty Food delivery is a booming business. Waste is piling up, too. Three couriers in hard helmets cram into an office lift in Beijing—one clad in red, one in yellow and one in blue. The trios are dispatching food that was purchased online through China’s most popular meal-ordering firms, which (1) urban roads every midday with their colorful delivery people on electric bicycles. Delivery fees as (2) as three yuan ($0.46) have helped to transform urban lunch-hours. But the booming business is also fuelling concerns about everything from (3) to the abuse of workers. Such services—which enable users of a single site to (4) food from a swathe of local restaurants—are expanding around the world. But in China the industry is on a tear. By the end of June, the number of registered users had risen to 295m, 40% more than at the end of last year, according to government analysts. The value of meals bought (5) was about $25bn in 2016 and could (6) to around $36bn by the end of next year, says iiMedia, a research firm. The market leaders are Meituan and Ele.me. Both still make losses in food delivery, but they have backing from Tencent and Alibaba (7) — tech giants eager to find ways of pushing customers to their dueling online payment systems. Such businesses first began to take (8) in student dormitories. In these days young office-workers are by far the biggest market. But there is much hand-wringing about the consequences of their popularity. Officials say the couriers threaten road (9). They ride electric bikes which are cheap, need no license and are handy in cities like Beijing that (10) the use of motorcycles. Delivery people often mount pavements or drive (11) the flow of traffic to maximize earnings during the lunchtime (12). Last month officials in Nanjing said meal delivery bikes in the eastern city had been involved in more than 3,000 accidents in the first six months of the year. In one district of Shanghai police have (13) a penalty-points system. They order those who acquire a certain number of points to perform community (14). The police can ask couriers’ 第 1 页， 共 5 页