WeChat, one of the world’s most popular mobile apps and social networks, brought home iF Gold Award for its smart retail innovation, Scan & Go. It is     1     first ever Chinese product to win gold in the iF Service Design category.

Scan & Go enables shoppers at retail stores to turn    2     (they) mobile phones into a virtual checkout counter. When shopping, customers use their mobile phones     3     (scan) product barcodes, view product information, get discounts, complete self-checkout, and pay     4     (direct) within the app via WeChat Pay. There is no queuing up at the cash register. “This concept     5     (show) a customer-centric scan-and-go-solution for an optimized (充分利用的) shopping and retail context. All standards of the good user experience     6     (meet) in this service design, including touchless access, efficiency or ease-of-use in scanning of market products and the final payment and checkout. This is user-friendly design at its     7     (good),” says iF Gold Award in its Gold Statement to Scan & Go.

According to statistics, sales during peak hours in     8     (tradition) supermarkets account for 60% of total turnover, and     9     average customers spend three to five minutes on queuing and payment during peak hours. With Scan & Go, customers no longer have to queue, and the payment time     10     (shorten) to one minute.

With the development of technology, online shopping    1    (become) popular in people’s life. As many of us might have witnessed, more people are buying products     2     the Internet. It tends    3    (be) a common phenomenon.

Undoubtedly, online shopping has brought us many     4    (convenient). For one thing, online shopping doesn’t need you to pour a lot of time and energy into buying things. If you go shopping in this way, you     5    (spend)a few minutes choosing the things that you need online instead of going out. Moreover, online shopping doesn’t need us to get the things in person. For another, online     6    (store) can provide various goods to satisfy our endless need. Besides, we can save much money by online shopping.

From above, we can know that online shopping has    7     positive effect on our life. However, every coin has two sides, online shopping is no exception. First, for example, we maybe buy something wrong online     8    we don’t take much notice of the goods. Second, there are many cheaters     9    may cheat us out of money by opening a fake online store.

As far as I am     10     (concern), shopping online is an irreversible trend. More and more people will be accustomed to it. It will be much more popular in the near future.

Chinese archaeologists(考古学家)announced Saturday that six “sacrificial pits”,     1     (date) back 3200 to 4000 years, were newly discovered in Sanxingdui Ruins site in Guanghan, southwest China's Sichuan province.

Sanxingdui went viral among netizens again and some     2     (be) even eager for some hands-on experiences.

Therefore, Archaeological blind boxes rolled out by several museums in China were trending on a major online shopping platform, with     3     (buy) saying that it allowed them to “experience the joys of digging cultural relics     4     an archaeologist.”

Henan Museum integrated the blind box concept with cultural relics, and hid “miniature cultural relics” such as bronze and china in the soil. Using a Luoyang shovel(铁铲),and a brush     5     (sweep) away the dirt, and digging a blind box, you can harvest a piece of bronzeware from the Shang Dynasty     6     a china bottle from the Song Dynasty.

The idea has proved     7     (wild) popular with many young people. Most of the blind boxes     8     (sell) out as soon as they are restocked. Those who were lucky enough to place an order shared     9     (they) experience of digging the blind box online. One said, “Wearing gloves, I feel like     10     archaeologist !”