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It began with one red paper clip (回形针) and ended with a house. Kyle MacDonald, a 26-year-old Canadian, got a three-bedroomed house through 14 trades (交换) that started with a single red paper clip.

Encouraged by Kyle's successful experience, now more and more young people around the world are starting their own trading activities. They set up websites where people can trade things they do not usually use with other people. A website called Peerflix allows people to trade their used DVDs. These traders usually prefer face-to-face tracing, which means they don't have to worry about who is going to pay for the delivery (递送).

Last year, a young girl in Beijing decided to follow the example of Kyle. She started with a paper clip and hoped to get a house in the end. After several trades she now has a piano which is worth more than 10,000 yuan. But she may still have a long way to go.

You may be puzzled about why people are doing this. In fact, everyone in the trade activities gets things that are useful to them. Just as Kyle said, "What's more important to a man dying of thirst in the desert--one million dollars or a glass of water?" Kyle's words probably show why these trades are popular among young people.

1.What did Kyle get in the end through 14 trades?

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2.Where can people trade things they do not usually use?

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3.Why do these traders usually prefer face-to-face trading?

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4.How can the Chinese girl's dream come true?

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5.Why are the trade activities popular among young people?

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1.A three-bedroomed house./A house.

2.At websites./On the Internet./On the web./On line.

3.Because they don't have to worry about who is going to pay for the delivery.

4.By trading./Through trades./She can trade again and again./She can go on trading.

5.Because the traders can get things that are useful to them. /Because the traders can get useful things to them.

【解析】

试题分析：自己不需要的东西别人需要吗？需要的话拿你的东西和我交换吧！重复这样的交易，也许某一天，你想要的东西就会拥有。

1.根据第一句话中“ended with a house”可得知，凯尔最终获得了一栋房子。具体来说是“a three-bedroomed house”。故填A three-bedroomed house./A house.

2.根据“They set up websites where people can trade things they do not usually use with other people. ”这句话得知，人们可以交换不常用的东西在一个网站上。故填At websites./On the Internet./On the web./On line.

3.从“These traders usually prefer face-to-face tracing, which means they don't have to worry about who is going to pay for the delivery (递送).”中我们可以知道，交易者更喜欢面对面交易，这意味着他们不必担心谁为快递买单。故填Because they don't have to worry about who is going to pay for the delivery.

4.通过文意可知，人们可以通过反复的交易来获取自己想要的物品。北京的一个小女孩也是通过交易的方式实现自己的梦想的。故答案是By trading./Through trades./She can trade again and again./She can go on trading.

5.根据“veryone in the trade activities gets things that are useful to them.”可知，人们交换的目的是为了获得自己需要的物品，而通过物物交换实现了，这就是交易的原因。故答案是Because the traders can get things that are useful to them. /Because the traders can get useful things to them.

考点：社会类短文阅读。