【题目】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 web-site 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 the most visited online shopping websites on the Internet.

eBay sells connections, not goods* putting buyers and sellers into contact with each other. All you have to do is make 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 a great deal f 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 website?

A. By bringing callers together.

B. By charging for each sale.

C. By listing items online.

D. By making e-photos.

【题目】You are so __________ your car.

A. silly not have locked

B. silly not to have lock

C. silly not to have locked

D. silly not to lock

【题目】The old couple looked at the plane with their son on it until it was ______.

A. at the first sight B. out of sight

C. in sight D. at the sight of

【题目】Nowadays people sometimes separate their waste to make it easier for it __________.

A. reusing B. reused

C. reuses D. to be reused

【题目】The Sahara Desert is almost _____ of the US.

A. as big B. the size

C. the area D. the same

【题目】---John, have you gone over your lessons learnt this morning?

---Not yet.

---You should know _____.

A. many hands make light work

B. Rome wasn’t built in a day

C. strike while the iron is hot

D. great minds think alike

【题目】She died __________ old age while her son died young.

A. of

B. at

C. for

D. by

【题目】根据汉语完成句子 (每空一词)

【1】Would you be __________ __________ __________ me the time?

劳驾，现在几点了？

【2】 It's so __________ __________ __________ your voice.

听到你的声音真好。

【3】 The pen is good for me to __________ __________.

这支钢笔写起字来很好用。

【4】 I find __________ __________ __________ learn a foreign language well.

我发现学好一门外语很难。

【5】 These birds would starve if food was __________ __________ __________, especially during the cold winter months.

如果食物难以找到，这些鸟就会挨饿，尤其是在寒冷的冬季。

【6】 It's foolish __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ there.

她去那里真是太傻了。

【题目】Do you remember there __________ a river here?

A. used to be

B. used to being

C. was used to being

D. was used to be

【题目】People often mistake some __________ objects such as kites or balloons for UFOs.

A. man make B. man-make C. man-made D. men-made