The push strategy emanates from manufacturers who "push" their product through the supply chain to consumers.（)

Supermarket's New Strategy

One supermarket in Tokyo has managed to solve the problems of shoplifting, mistakes by cashiers, and long lines of customers waiting at the cash registers. It is Japan's advanced computer technology that has come (51) with the answers.

Shoppers at an OK supermarket on the outskirts of the city now push a cart (52) a plastic card chained to it and buy from glass cases where the goods are on display. The plastic card has a magnetic number imprinted on it. Each customer carries his or her own card, which is (53) at the exit. While shopping, the customer pushes the card into a slot beside whichever items are wanted and pushes a button or two. The glass covered vending machines are connected to a computer that (54) the price of every item in the store. Prices of every purchase are added up automatically. (55) she has finished shopping, the customer hands her card to a cashier who (56) it into the register. A second later the (57) pops out.

Shoplifting is physically impossible. Once you touch a commodity the computer remembers it no matter how you hide it or (58) you eat it on the spot.

A cashier at the OK supermarket is now able to work 15 times faster than her (59) at a conventional supermarket. Only two cashiers, (60) , are required at the store, which (61) 2,500 separate items. One man is enough to keep the vending machine filled, because whenever the stock for a certain commodity is (62) to run out, a red lamp in the computer-room (63) him.

But there are disadvantages too: a customer cannot (64) his or her mind about a purchase. Once touched, the item cannot be put back. The customer must (65) a cashier with it first and get a refund later. There are also no fresh vegetables or fish on sale—everything is prepackaged.

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A．together

B．up

C．along

D．on

Passage 4

Dieting advisor Dr. Robert Atkins recommends eating a diet high in protein for those who want to lose weight and keep it off. The hamburger patty is good, the hamburger bun bad, according to the _1_ of Atkins, who has turned his philosophies into a dieting revolution, starting with his first book, Dr.Atkins Diet Revolution, in 1972. Atkins，books _2_ top best-seller lists. Atkins companies have made millions of dollars in sales of specialty low-carb food products and carb-counting scales. But the popularity of Atkins’ eating advice, now appealing to another generation, is _3_ some food companies who rely on the consumer _4_ for carbohydrate-laden foods such as pastas and pizzas, cakes, cookies and cereals, to add weight to their own bottom lines. “Our industry has to do something, and soon. It is starting to become a _5_belief that carbohydrates are bad,” said Judi Adams, director of the Wheat Foods Council. Part of the society&39;s push will be in Washington, where federal health officials are starting talks on _6_ to the nation&39;s 11-year-old Food Guide Pyramid. Currently, the pyramid puts bread, cereals, rice and pasta as the _7_ for healthy eating. The strategy is a direct attack on Atkins: Americans who follow the Atkins diet _8_ their risk of health problems that include cardiovascular disease, high cholesterol, kidney damage and some cancers, the Wheat Foods Council says. According to Atkins, he is not looking to go to war with the food companies, and even Atkins diehards allow for an _9_ doughnut or cookie. “We teach people how to respect it and, on rare occasions, have it in _10_,” he said. “We know people can’t stay away from it forever.”

A) mainstream

B) increase

C) profitable

D) occasional

E) routinely

F) panicking

G) foundation

H) hasty

I) recommends

J) appetite

K) teachings

L) revisions

M) empirically

N) moderation

O) merge

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