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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 shipping. 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】【改编】We can infer from the passage____

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

B. Taobao has no apparent advantage compared with other similar online sites.

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

D. TMall.com provides more profit than Taobao.

【4】【改编】The passage mainly talks about_____

A.Alibaba has a great influence on people’s daily purchase in China.

B. The influence of shopping online goes beyond traditional shopping.

C. Shopping online is TaoBao..

D. How the author purchases online in China.

【答案】

【1】A

【2】C

【3】B

【4】D

【解析】

试题分析：本文讲的是现在网上非常热火的购物平台淘宝、阿里巴巴的相关介绍，以及作者是如何在中国网站购物的。

【1】细节理解题。在第一段中“ Alibaba’s advantage wasn’t hard to identify: size. Alibaba is just big, even by Chinese standards.”可以看出阿里巴巴的优势主要在于它的“size”，故选A。

【2】推断分析题。在第一段中“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.”可以看出阿里巴巴网为卖家买家提供了一个广大的平台，吸引了无数人得关注及取得傲人的引入注目的交易量，可见阿里巴巴十分突出，被称为最好的网站也是理所当然的，故选C。

【3】推断分析题。在第三段中“TMall.com is Alibaba’s other big site, where you can find brand name goods from Nike and Unilever near the lowest prices.”可以看出TMall.com作为阿里巴巴的另一个网站，在品牌产品销售中也具有一定的价格优势，而这也是淘宝的一个优势。相比之下，淘宝就不具备明显的价格优势。故选B.

【4】主旨大意题。本文从第二段起就开始讲作者自己是如何与阿里巴巴发展关系的，并且他大篇幅提到中文老师帮他在中国购物网站买东西的经历，故选D。

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