Jeffrey Bezos, founder, president and chairman of the board of Amazon.com, was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His mother’s ancestors were early settlers in Texas, and over the generations had acquired a 25,000 acre farm at Cotulla. Jeffrey spent most summers of his youth working with his grandfather on their farm.
Jeffrey showed intense and varied scientific interests at an early age. He set up an electric alarm to keep his younger sisters and brothers out of his room and changed his parents’ garage into a laboratory for his science projects.
After he graduated from Princeton University with a degree in computer science and electrical engineering, Jeffrey Bezos found employment on Wall Street, where computer science was increasingly in demand to study market trends. He rose quickly, becoming a senior vice president, and looked forward to a bright career in finance, when he made a discovery that changed his life, and the course of business history.
In 1994, there was still no internet commerce to speak of. One day that spring, Jeffrey Bezos observed that Internet usage was increasing by 2300 percent a year. He saw an opportunity for a new circle of commerce, and immediately began considering the possibilities.
Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994, setting up the original company in his garage. The company was called Amazon for the seemingly endless South American river with its numberless branches. It started as an online bookstore but soon diversified to all kinds of products. His work with Amazon eventually led him to become one of the most excellent dot-com entrepreneurs. He was named Time magazine’s Person of the Year in 1999. In 2008, he was selected by U.S. News & World Report as one of America’s Best Leaders. Bezos’ Amazon has become “the Earth’s biggest anything store”. Amazon.com is now called “one of the smartest strategies in business history”.
Today, Jeffrey Bezos lives north of Seattle and is increasingly concerned with charity activities. “Giving away money takes as much attention as building a successful company,” he said.
【小题1】 In his childhood, Bezos ______.

Jeffrey Bezos, founder, president and chairman of the board of Amazon.com, was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His mother’s ancestors were early settlers in Texas, and over the generations had acquired a 25,000 acre farm at Cotulla. Jeffrey spent most summers of his youth working with his grandfather on their farm.

Jeffrey showed intense and varied scientific interests at an early age. He set up an electric alarm to keep his younger sisters and brothers out of his room and changed his parents’ garage into a laboratory for his science projects.

After he graduated from Princeton University with a degree in computer science and electrical engineering, Jeffrey Bezos found employment on Wall Street, where computer science was increasingly in demand to study market trends. He rose quickly, becoming a senior vice president, and looked forward to a bright career in finance, when he made a discovery that changed his life, and the course of business history.

In 1994, there was still no internet commerce to speak of. One day that spring, Jeffrey Bezos observed that Internet usage was increasing by 2300 percent a year. He saw an opportunity for a new circle of commerce, and immediately began considering the possibilities.

Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994, setting up the original company in his garage. The company was called Amazon for the seemingly endless South American river with its numberless branches. It started as an online bookstore but soon diversified to all kinds of products. His work with Amazon eventually led him to become one of the most excellent dot-com entrepreneurs. He was named Time magazine’s Person of the Year in 1999. In 2008, he was selected by U.S. News & World Report as one of America’s Best Leaders. Bezos’ Amazon has become “the Earth’s biggest anything store”. Amazon.com is now called “one of the smartest strategies in business history”.

Today, Jeffrey Bezos lives north of Seattle and is increasingly concerned with charity activities. “Giving away money takes as much attention as building a successful company,” he said.

1. In his childhood, Bezos ______.

2.Jeffrey changed the course of business history because he ______.

3.Which of the following isn’t mentioned in the passage?

4. It can be inferred from the passage that ______.

I’m beginning to think whether my grandmother was right when she complains,as she frequently does,that children nowadays aren’t as well-behavioured as they used to be.She recounts in detail how she used to be told to respect her elders and betters.She was taught to speak when she was spoken to and when she went out on her own,she was reminded to say please and thank you.Children in her days,she continues,were expected to be seen and not heard,but these days you are lucky if you ever hear parents telling their children to mind her manners.?

If you give her the chance she then takes out of her writing desk the old photograph album which she keeps there,and which she never tires of displaying.Of course when you look at pictures of her parents you feel sure that,with a father as strict looking as that,you too would have been “seen and not heard”.Beside him sits his wife,with their children around her;Granny and her elder brothers.It always occurs to me that perhaps those long,stiff,black clothes were so burdensome (heavy) to a little girl that she hadn’t enough breath left to be talkative,let alone mischievous (淘气的).It must have been a dull and lonely life too,for she stayed mainly at home during her childhood,while her brothers were sent to school from an early age.?

However,my childhood was much freer than Granny’s.I went to school with my brother.I played football with him and his friends.We all spoke a common language,and we got up to the same mischief.I would have died if I had to stay indoors,wearing tight,stiff clothes.

1.The writer thinks that her grandmother_________ .?

A.makes mistakes about the youth?

B.complains too much about her childhood?

C.received good education at school?

D.led an unhappy life when she was a child?

2.When Granny was young,children were expected_________.?

A.to speak to the elders loudly?

B.to hear and not to see?

C.to be present quietly?

D.to stay still and study?

3.This passage is mainly about _______.?

A.Granny’s life story in the past?

B.Granny’s complaints about the children?

C.women’s life in different times?

D.children in the past and at present

Jeffrey Bezos, founder, president and chairman of the board of Amazon.com, was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His mother’s ancestors were early settlers in Texas, and over the generations had acquired a 25,000 acre farm at Cotulla. Jeffrey spent most summers of his youth working with his grandfather on their farm.

       Jeffrey showed intense and varied scientific interests at an early age. He set up an electric alarm to keep his younger sisters and brothers out of his room and changed his parents’ garage into a laboratory for his science projects.

       After he graduated from Princeton University with a degree in computer science and electrical engineering, Jeffrey Bezos found employment on Wall Street, where computer science was increasingly in demand to study market trends. He rose quickly, becoming a senior vice president, and looked forward to a bright career in finance, when he made a discovery that changed his life, and the course of business history.

       In 1994, there was still no internet commerce to speak of. One day that spring, Jeffrey Bezos observed that Internet usage was increasing by 2300 percent a year. He saw an opportunity for a new circle of commerce, and immediately began considering the possibilities.

       Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994, setting up the original company in his garage. The company was called Amazon for the seemingly endless South American river with its numberless branches. It started as an online bookstore but soon diversified to all kinds of products. His work with Amazon eventually led him to become one of the most excellent dot-com entrepreneurs. He was named Time magazine’s Person of the Year in 1999. In 2008, he was selected by U.S. News & World Report as one of America’s Best Leaders. Bezos’ Amazon has become “the Earth’s biggest anything store”. Amazon.com is now called “one of the smartest strategies in business history”.

       Today, Jeffrey Bezos lives north of Seattle and is increasingly concerned with charity activities. “Giving away money takes as much attention as building a successful company,” he said.

36. In his childhood, Bezos ______.

   A. had to work with his grandfather on their farm all day long

   B. showed great interest in science

   C. didn’t get along well with his brothers and sisters

   D. wanted to become a businessman

37. Jeffrey changed the course of business history because he ______.

   A. looked forward to a bright career in finance on Wall Street

   B. considered the possibility of setting up an original company

   C. founded a new form of commerce that developed fast later

   D. was the first to speak of Internet commerce

38. Which of the following isn’t mentioned in the passage?

   A. How hard Bezos studied in Princeton University.

   B. “Amazon.com” only sold books in the beginning.

   C. Bezos not only devoted his life to Internet commerce but also to charity.

   D. The reason why Jeffrey Bezos decided to found Amazon.com.

39. It can be inferred from the passage that ______.

   A. it was Bezos’s grandfather on the farm who helped him a lot

   B. Bezos invented e-commerce to win the world fame overnight

   C. Bezos has a sharp business mind and a kind heart

   D. Bezos aimed at setting up “the Earth’s biggest bookstore”