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【题目】Alibaba started taking the lead in China, simply enough, by connecting big Chinese manufacturers(制造商)with big buyers across the world. Its business-to-business site, Alibaba.com allowed business to buy almost everything. Alibaba’s advantage wasn’t hard to identify size. Alibaba is just big, even by Chinese standards. Its marketplaces attract 231 million active buyers, 8 million sellers, 11.3 billion orders a year—and Alibaba is just the middleman. It encourages people to use its markets—not charging small sellers a percentage of the sale.

If you want a quick look into the influence of Alibaba on daily Chinese life, take my experience. I moved to Beijing almost a year ago and quickly got tired of visiting small stores across the crowded, polluted city of 20 million people in search of new electronics, bathroom furnishings, and anything else my wife wanted. “You’re looking for what exactly? Why not try it? ” my Chinese teacher asked me one day. With that, my wonderful new relationship with Alibaba began.

Alibaba’s original business-to-business model now is secondary to consumer buying. Chinese retail（零售）buying makes up 80% of Alibaba’s profit, and leading that group is Taobao, with 800 million items for sale and the most unbelievable selection of things you’ll ever find. TMall.com is Alibaba’s other big site, where you can find brand name goods from Nike and Unilever near the lowest prices.

What I have a hard time explaining to friends and family back in the U.S. is how China has gone beyond traditional shopping—big-box retailers especially —in favor of online purchases on Taobao and a few other sites. In smaller towns than Beijing, where big retailers have not yet traveled, shopping online is shopping, and shopping is Taobao.

I have a list of some of my recent purchases on Taobao for a sense of how extensive the marketplace is. Almost everything arrived a day or two after ordering with free shopping. I’m not even a big buyer, because I need friends to help me search the Chinese-language site. When I was searching my purchase history on my Chinese teacher’s iPad, which helps me buy goods, I looked through with great difficulty about 10 of her purchases for every one of mine.

【1】Alibaba’s advantage mainly lies in ___________.

A. its big size

B. its business-to-business service

C. its not charging small sellers

D. its low price

【2】What can we learn from the underlined sentence in the passage?

A. Alibaba is of middle size among all the online sites

B. Alibaba will continue to develop.

C. Alibaba stands out as the best online site.

D. Alibaba acts as a bridge between the buyers and sellers.

【3】What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

A. a new store B. Alibaba

C. a business D. a foreign website

【4】What can be inferred from the passage?

A. The author’s Chinese teacher is also an online purchase lover.

B. Taobao has no obvious advantage over other similar online sites.

C. Alibaba’s business-to-business service earns more money than retail now.

D. TMall.com provides more profit than Taobao.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】A

【2】D

【3】B

【4】A

【解析】

试题分析：本文是一篇说明文，针对阿里巴巴集团进行了一些说明。阿里巴巴连接遍布世界的大中国制造商（制造商）与大买家，在网站上允许各种交易买卖。

【1】A分析推断题。第一段倒数第二句 Its marketplaces attract 231 million active buyers, 8 million sellers, 11.3 billion orders a year—and Alibaba is just the middleman. 它的市场吸引了2亿3千1百万活跃的买家，8百万卖家，每年113亿订单，阿里巴巴只是中间人而已。故选A

【2】D分析推断题。该句意思为：阿里巴巴只是一个中间人。阿里巴巴在交易中只是起的一个连接这卖家和买家的作用，提供平台让卖家开店。可以推断出故选D

【3】B分析推断题。根据第一段最后一句With that, my wonderful new relationship with Alibaba began.听到了这些，我和阿里巴巴新奇的关系开始了，故选B

【4】A细节题。根据最后一句 I looked through with great difficulty about 10 of her purchases for every one of mine.我艰难的看着她的购买商品，从每10个网购商品选择我的每一个购买商品。故选A