The big change is the availability of more data about people and things, which allows physical assets to be divided and consumed as services.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

In some American cities, peer-to-peer taxi services have been banned after lobbying by traditional taxi firms

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

Many people's homes now have more powerful, and more flexible, devices than their offices do; consumer gadgets and online services are smarter and easier to use than most companies'ystems

出自-2012年12月阅读原文

At the recent unveiling of a tablet computer by Jeff Bezos of Amazon, whose company is doing the best job of following Apple's lead in combining hardware, software, content and services in an easy-to-use bundle, there were several attacks at Apple

出自-2012年12月阅读原文

The editor is not only offered $5,000 to pay off his newspaper's debts, but this Smith character also offers his services for free

出自-2013年6月听力原文

When people care for an elderly relative, they often do not use available community services such as adult daycare centers.

出自-2011年6月听力原文

In contrast, a spouse usually the wife, is much less likely to use support services or to put the dependent person in a nursing home

出自-2011年6月听力原文

Why are adult children more likely to use community services to help care for elderly parents?

出自-2011年6月听力原文

Tutoring services are very popular with students

出自-2011年6月听力原文

According to data released in January 2017, 56 percent of bills are paid online, which means that just under half of payments still rely on delivery services to be completed.

2019年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

But it's also important to recognize that the pressure to divorce may be health-related and that sick ex-wives may need additional care and services to prevent worsening health and increased health costs.

2019年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

In turn, we get the needed services.

2016年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

Offering support services to spouses caring for their other halves may reduce marital stress and prevent divorce at older ages, she said.

2019年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

Postal services work hard to identify items that require priority treatment.

2019年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

So we all must pay our share for the services that makes our lives comfortable.

2016年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

Some services, however, remind us that life will eventually return, in some form, to normal.

2019年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

States fail when national governments can no longer provide personal security, food security and basic social services such as education and healthcare.

2016年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

Thankfully the emergency services have again worked well together to ensure a positive outcome.

2019年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

We pay for these services through taxes.

2016年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

They have stagnant (萧条的) or shrinking markets for goods and services.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

Because so many of our modern technologies and services depend on oil, nations, corporations, and institutions that control the trade in oil exercise extraordinary power.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

I don't attend services when I am there, and I have never meditated, there or anywhere; I just take walks and read and lose myself in the stillness, recalling that it is only by stepping briefly away from my wife and bosses and friends that I will have anything useful to bring to them.

出自-2012年12月阅读原文

The rising volume of trade – more goods and services shuttling in and out of the United States – is good news for many sectors.

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

It signals decreasing domestic demand for goods and services

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

Consumers who favor imported goods and services.

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

Retailers dealing in foreign goods and services

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

A recurring criticism of the UK's university sector is its perceived weakness in translating new knowledge into new products and services.

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

Among high-skilled, better-educated employees, however, opposition was strongest in states with both high numbers of immigrants and relatively generous social services.

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

They can access all kinds of public services

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

Oh, yesterday I finally got around to that new barbershop in the mall and enjoyed their services.

出自-2014年6月听力原文

The problem relates to the way data is stored on large websites: While your personal computer only keeps one copy of a file, large-scale services like Facebook rely on what are called content delivery networks to manage data and distribution.

出自-2010年12月听力原文

A retired member of the Public and Commercial Services Union, she is setting up one of 1,100 action groups with the support of Climate Solidarity, a two-year environmental campaign aimed at trade unionists.

2015年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

And when it comes to the hyper-connected super-smart world that technology firms are painting for us, it seems that consumers are growing more uneasy about handing over the massive amounts of consumer data needed to provide the personalized, customized so

2016年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

Bearded Russian priests offer regular services at the Orthodox church for the 16 or so Russian speakers who spend the winter at the base, largely polar scientists in fields like glaciology and meteorology.

2016年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

By offering services to help expand the longevity of their products, they're promising quality and durability to consumers and receiving the reputational gains for being environmentally friendly.

2019年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

Current services originate in two key measures.

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

Enrollees would have to pay more money for many services out of their own pockets, and that would encourage them to think twice about whether an expensive or redundant test was worth it.

2016年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

Even among people who have bought connected devices of some kind, 37 percent said that they are going to be more cautious about using these devices and services in the future.

2016年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

From the early 1960s, local authorities were required to plan health and welfare services.

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

Globally, urban populations are expected to double in the next 40 years, and an extra 2 billion people will need new places to live, as well as services and ways to move around their cities.

2019年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section A

Governments emphasized the need to improve services.

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

However, as good as these services are, there are simple steps we can take to keep them at bay.

2017年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

It's no wonder these companies employ teams of people focused on engineering their services to be as engaging as possible.

2017年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

Many successful virtual companies provide digital services, such as financial transactions, in the case of PayPal, or means of communication, as Skype does.

2015年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

Meanwhile, preference for private over public services made management even more difficult.

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

Medical spending, which typically rises faster than wages and the overall economy, is propelled by two things: the high prices charged for medical services in this country and the volume of unnecessary care delivered by doctors and hospitals, which often

2016年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

One recent study attempted to calculate the extent of this "ecological overshoot of the human economy", and found that we are using 1.2 Earth's-worth of environmental goods and services—the implication being that at some point the debt will be called in,

2016年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

Online services like Facebook, Twitter and the like, are called out as masters of manipulation—making products so good that people can't stop using them.

2017年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

Personal technology is indeed more engaging than ever, and there's no doubt companies are engineering their products and services to be more compelling and attractive.

2017年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

Second, they rely on a system that has long been marked by a poor relation between national health and social care services.

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

since these services rely on advertising revenue, the more frequently you use them, the more money they make.

2017年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

Smith says he'll provide services ranging from formal seminars to on-farm workshops on holistic management, to one-on-one hand-holding and an almost 24/7 phone hotline for farmers who are converting.

2019年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

Some of the most profitable e-commerce companies are those selling sex-related products or services.

2015年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

The 2004 Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act, intended to encourage private space vehicles and services, prohibits the transportation secretary and thereby the FA from regulating the design or operation of private spacecraft, unless they have resulted

2015年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

The care was substantially provided by voluntary services, which worked together with local authorities as they long had with eligibility based on income.

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

The House bill would authorize the secretary of health and human services to negotiate drug prices in Medicare and Medicaid.

2016年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

There are certain products and services that are very suitable for selling online, and others that simply don't work.

2015年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

They also provided home and community services including meals; day centers and home helpers and other subsidized services.

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

To match the growing demand, services are springing up to make it easier to publish research products online and enable other researchers to discover and cite them.

2017年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

But recently it has discovered that data can be turned into new services: translation and visual recognition, to be sold to other companies.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Data can be turned into new services or products.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

Far from charging consumers high prices, many of these services are free users pay, in effect, by handing over yet more data.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

It is difficult to sell services to poor people.

2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 阅读B 选项

Senior citizens and disabled customers can get free guide on how to use proper metrobus and metrorail services by calling 202-962-1100.

2014年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

She encouraged a sense of community社区 by creating shelters and promoting education and services for people in need in 1931, addams became the first American woman to win the nobel peace prize.

2016年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

That relief is coupled with a deep understanding of why the same people keep coming back for more: connecting to the community as you freely give your time, money, skills, or services provides a real joy.

2019年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

The convenience even leads fewer people to take public transport——an unwelcome side effect researchers have already found in ride- hailing services.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

The first commercially available driverless cars will almost certainly be fielded by ride-hailing services, considering the cost of self-driving technology as well as liability and maintenance issues.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

The second principle is to loosen the control that providers of on-line services have over data and give more to those who supply them.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

The state also cleared the way for companies to sell or rent out self-driving cars, and for companies to operate driverless taxi services.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

They no longer provide free services.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

At the same time, the European Union, Spain, Britain and several other countries have all seriously contemplated digital services taxes.

2020年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Both France and the United States are involved in the organization's work, but France's digital services tax and the American response raise questions about what the future holds for the international tax system.

2020年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Competition law as presently interpreted deals with financial disadvantage to consumers and this is not obvious when the users of these services don't pay for them.

2018年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Digital services include everything from providing a platform for selling goods and services online to targeting advertising based on user data, and the tax applies to gross revenue from such services.

2020年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

During the decade before the economic crisis, spending on legal services in America grew twice as fast as inflation.

2014年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Google and microsoft are among companies that already have these "single sign-on" systems that make it possible for users to log in just once but use many different services.

2011年考研真题（英语二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

In fact, allowing non-lawyers to own shares in law firms would reduce costs and improve services to customers, by encouraging law firms to use technology and to employ professional managers to focus on improving firms'efficiency.

2014年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Instead, the digital services tax is part of a much larger trend, with countries over the past few years proposing or putting in place an alphabet soup of new international tax provisions.

2020年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

John Donahue at Harvard's Kennedy School points out that the norms of culture in Western civil services suit those who want to stay put but is bad for high achievers.

2012年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Last Thursday, the French Senate passed a digital services tax, which would impose an entirely new tax on large multinationals that provide digital services to consumers or users in France.

2020年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Plus, whatever image we present is magnified by social-media services like Linkedin.

2016年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The digital services tax now awaits the signature of President Emmanuel Macron, who has expressed support for the measure, and it could go into effect within the next few weeks.

2020年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The sharp hit to growth predicted around the world and in the UK could lead to a decline in the everyday services we depend on for our well-being and for growth.

2017年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The system might use a smart identity card, or a digital credential linked to a specific computer, and would authenticate users at a range of online services.

2011年考研真题（英语二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

The users of their services are no their customers.

2018年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

There will always be change—new jobs, new products, new services.

2013年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

within two weeks, he was talking for the first time with the board of Hartford financial Services Group, which named him CEO and chairman on September 29.

2011年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Young people who are still getting started in life were more likely than older adults to prioritize personal fulfillment in their work, to believe they will advance their careers most by regularly changing jobs, to favor communities with more public servi

2016年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ