The giant vending machine (自動售貨機(jī)) is a new village shop

Villagers have long been used to facing a drive when they run out of basic supplies. However, help is now nearer at hand in form of the country’s first automatic push-button shop. Now residents in the Derbyshire Village of Clifton can buy groceries around the clock after the huge vending was installed outside a pub in the village this week.

Peter Fox, who is1.______electrical engineer, spent two and a half years working on the project. The machine 2.______ (equip) with securing cameras and alarms and looks like a mini shop with a brick front, a grey roof and a display window.

Mr. Fox said he hoped his invention, 3._____ is set to be installed in other villages in the area over the coming months, will mark a return to convenience shopping for rural communities.

He said:“ I had this idea a few years ago but I couldn’t find a manufacture who could deliver what I wanted, so I did it by 4._____. The result is what amounts to huge outdoor vending machine. Yet I think the term “automatic shop” is far 5.______ (appropriate)

In recent years, the commercial pressure from supermarket chains6.______ force village shops across the country to close. In 2010, it was estimated that about 400 village shops closed, 7.______ (urge) the local government to give financial support to struggling shops or set-up new communities stores.

Hundreds of communities have since stepped in and opened up their won volunteer-run shops, but Mr. Fox hopes his new invention will offer a solution8.______these villages without a local shop.

 

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試題分析：一個電力工程師花了兩年半的時間從事的項(xiàng)目，在沒有商店的村子安裝自動售貨機(jī)，想給沒有商店的村子提供一個解決的方法。

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