题目内容
Joined by their friends, Troy and Cabrella staged a musical _____ their experiences, hopes and fears about the future.
A.reflecting B.reflected
C.being reflected D.having reflected
A
What is eBay? 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, he 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 eBay 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, eBay 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 take 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.
【小题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 |
A.For fun. | B.To make money. |
C.For gathering the engineers. | D.To fulfill a task of his company. |
A.did not feel lonely | B.was always hopeful |
C.did not think about the past | D.became more and more successful |
A.By bringing sellers together. | B.By charging for each sale. |
C.By listing items online. | D.By making e-photos. |
Bringing Art into Hospitals.
The medical world is slowly realizing that the quality of the environment in hospitals may play an important role in helping patients to recover(康复).
As part of a nationwide effort in Britain to bring art out of the museums and into public places, some of the country’s best artists have been called in to change older hospitals and to soften the hard, modern buildings. Of the 2500 national health service hospitals in Britain, almost 100 now have collections of art in passages(走廊), waiting areas and treatment rooms.
These recent movements were first started by one artist, Peter Senior, who set up his studio at a Manchester hospital in northeastern England during the early 1970’s. He felt the artist had lost his place in modern society, and that art should be enjoyed by more people.
A common hospital waiting room might have as many as 5000 visitors each week. What a good place to hold exhibitions(展览) of art! Senior held the first exhibition of his own paintings in the waiting area of the Manchester Royal Hospital in 1975. Believed to be Britain’s first hospital artist, Senior was so much in demand that he was soon joined by a team of six young art school graduates.
The effect is amazing. Now in the passages and waiting rooms the visitors experience a full view of fresh colors, playful images(形象) and restful courtyards.
The quality of the environment may reduce the need for expensive drugs when a patient is recovering from an illness. A study has shown that a patient who had a view onto gardens needed half the number of strong pain killers compared with(与……相比) patients who had no view at all or only a brick wall to look at.
1.Some best artists of Britain have been called in to_____
A.set up new hospitals |
B.make the corners of hospital collect paintings |
C.bring art into hospitals |
D.help patients recover from serious illness |
2.After the improvement of the hospital environment, _____
A.patients no longer take drugs to kill their pains |
B.patients don’t have to stay long in hospital |
C.patients need fewer pain killers when they suffer from an illness |
D.patients feel happy in hospital |
3.It can be inferred from the passage that_____
A.the role of hospital environment is being recognized |
B.hospital artists have done more than doctors |
C.exhibitions attract more people in hospitals than in museums |
D.the hospitals is a better place for people than the museum in Britain |