What is Bay? The simple answer is that it is a global trading platform where nearly anyone can trade practically anything. People can sell and buy all kinds of products and goods. Including cars, movies and DVDs, sporting goods, travel tickets, musical instruments, clothes and shoes- the list goes on and on
The idea came from Peter Omidyar, who was born in Paris and moved to Washington when he was still a child, At high school, be became very interested in computer programming and after graduating from Tuft University in 1988, He worked for the next few years as a computer engineer. In his free time he started Bay as a kind of hobby, at first offering the service free by word of mouth. By 1996 there was so much traffic on the website that he had to upgrade（升级） and he began charging a fee to members. Joined by a friend, Peter Skill. and in 1998 by his capable CEO, Meg Whitman, he has never looked back. . Even in the great. com crashes of the late 1990s,abay has gone from strength to strength ,. It is now one of the ten most visited online shopping websites on the Internet
eBay sells connections, not goods, putting buyer and seller into contact with each other. All you have to do is lake an e-photo, write a description, fill out a sales form and you are in business: the world is your market place. Of course for each item （商品）sold eBay gets a percentage and that is great deal of money. Every day there are more than sixteen million items listed on eBay and eighty percent of the items are sold
1.We learn from the text that eBay provides people with__
A. a way of buying and selling goods
B. a website for them to upgrade
C. a place to exhibit their own photos
D. a chance to buy things at low prices
2.Why did Peter create eBay after graduating from university?
A. For fun
B. To make money
C. For gathering the engineers
D. To fulfill a task of his company
3.From “he has never looked back “in Paragraph 2 we learn that peter_
A. did not feel lonely
B. was always hopeful
C. did not think about the past
D. became more and more successful
4.How does eBay make money from its website7?
A. By bringing callers together.
B. By charging for each sale
C. By listing items online
D. By making e-photos.
When I was going home to India last year, I called up my mother to ask if she wanted anything from china,
When India had not opened up its markers to the world, I carried suitcase loads of dark glasses and jeans. Thankfully, we can get all these anywhere in India now,
Still ,her answer surprised me:“Green tea,”
As long as I can remember she didn’t even drink Indian tea.
I dutifully bought a big packet of Longjing and headed home to hear the story. My mother and her brother, both regular newspaper readers, believed that Chinese green tea was the wonder drug for all illnesses
At the turn of the century, China was not really familiar to the average Indian, It was a strange country
How things change [And how soon]
Now every town of any size seems to have a “China Market”. And everyone is talking about China
The government of India has planned to send a team to China to see how things are done A minister once said that India must open the doors for more foreign investment（投资）and such a step would “work wonders as it did for China”.
But it’s a two-way street, I just heard about a thousand Shenzhen office workers who have gone to Rangalore to train in software. Meanwhile, all the IT majors are setting up a strong presence in China,
No wonder that trade, which was only in the millions just ten years ago, is expected to his about us$15 billion for last year and us$20 billion by 2008, a goal set by both governments,
No wonder, my colleague wrote some weeks ago about this being the Sino-Indian（中印）century as the two countries started on January I the Sino-Indian Friendship Year,
But what is still a wonder to me is my mother drinking Chinese tea.
1.Why did the mother ask for Chinese green tea?
A, she was tired of Indian tea
B, she had a son working in China.
C, she believed it had a curing effect
D, she was fond of Chinese products,
2.What does the author mean by “it’s a two-way street’ in paragraph 10?
A. China and India have different traffic rules
B. Tea trade works wonders in both India and China
C. Chinese products are popular in both China and India,
D. The exchanges between India and China benefit both
3.What do we know about the Indian IT industry?
A. It will move its head office to Shenzhen
B. It is seeking further development in China
C. It has attracted an investment of US$15 billion
D. It caught up with the US IT industry in2008.
4.In the text the author expresses_____,
A. his concern for his mother’s health
B. his support for drinking Chinese green tea
C. his surprise at China’s recent development
D. his wonder at the growth of India’s IT industry
阅读下面的短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A young man was getting ready to gradually from college, for many months he bad 1a beautiful sports car in a dealer’s showroom, and 2his father could well 3it, he told him that was all he wanted.
On the morning of his gradation day his father called him into his own study and told him how 4he was to have such a fine son. He handed his son a beautiful gift box. 5but slightly disappointed, the young man 6the box and found a lovely book, 7, he raised his voice at his father and said. ” 8all your money you give me a book?” And rushed out of the house 9the book in the study
He did not contact（联系）his father for a whole year 10one day he saw in the strict an old man who looked like his father. He 11he bad to go back home and see his father.
When he arrived at his father’s house, he was told that his father had been in hospital for a week. The moment he was about to 12the hospital. he saw on the desk the 13new book ,just as he had left it one 14ago. he opened it and began to 15the pages. suddenly, a car key 16from an envelope taped behind the book ,it bad a lag（标签）with dealer’s name, the 17dealer who had the sports car he bad 18on the tag was the 19of his graduation. and the 20PAID IN FULL
1.A. expected. B. enjoyed. C. admired. D. owned
2.A. finding B. proving C. deciding D. knowing
3.A. afford. B. offer C. keep D. like
4.A. encouraged. B. comfortable C. proud. D. moved
5.A. Nervous B. Serious C. Careful D. Curious
6.A. packed. B. opened. C. picked up D. put aside
7.A. Angrily B. Eagerly C. Calmly D. Anxiously
8.A. At B. From C. With D. To
9.A. toasting B. putting C. forgetting D. leaving
10.A. until B. as C. before D. unless
11.A. learned . B. realized. C. recognized. D. admitted
12.A. get to B. search for C. turn to D. leave for
13.A. much B. still C. hardly D. quite
14.A. year B. month C. week D. day
15.A. clean B. read. C. turn D. count
16.A. lost B. came C. appeared. D. dropped
17.A. old. B. same C. special D. new
18.A. remembered. B. desired. C. found. D. met
19.A. Picture B. place C. date D. met
20.A. word. B. information C. date D. card
—Sorry, do you mind if I smoke here?
—Yes,
A. you could B. go ahead C. I do D. my pleasure
It’s the first time that he has been to Australia, ?
A. isn’t he B. hasn’t he C. isn’t it D. hasn’t it
Peter’s jacket looked just the same as Jack’s, but it cost his.
A. as much twice as B. twice as much as
C. much as twice as D. as twice much as
