题目内容
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.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.
5.What is the passage mainly about?
A. Shopping online is TaoBao.
B. The influence of shopping online goes beyond traditional shopping.
C. Alibaba greatly influences people’s daily purchase in China.
D. How the author purchases online in China.
1.A
2.D
3.B
4.A
5.C
【解析】
试题分析:本文是一篇议论文。论述了阿里巴巴通过连接制造商与世界各地的大买家开始处于中国的主导地位,以及阿里巴巴对人们生活产生的巨大影响。
1.A 细节理解题。根据第一段的“Alibaba’s advantage wasn’t hard to identify: size. Alibaba is just big, even by Chinese standards.”可知,阿里巴巴的优势在于大的规模。A项表述符合文意,故选A。
2.D 推理判断题。通读第一段并结合划线部分前后的句子可以得知,阿里巴巴是中间商,连接着卖家和买家,起桥梁的作用,和D项表述意思相近,故选D。
3.B 推理判断题。划线的it 在文中指代“With that, my wonderful new relationship with Alibaba began.”中的that,说明我在阿里巴巴上购物成功,开始了与阿里巴巴建立了奇妙的新关系。it 指代的是阿里巴巴。A、C、D三项均与文意不符,故选B。
4.A 细节理解题。根据最后一段的最后一句可知A项表述符合文意;根据第三段的前两句可知B项和C项表述与文意不符;根据第三段的最后一句“TMall.com is Alibaba’s other big site, where you can find brand name goods from Nike and Unilever near the lowest prices.”可知文中并未提到天猫的盈利情况,D项不符合文意。故选A。
5.5】C 主旨大意题。 纵观全文,作者用其在中国的亲身经历说明了阿里巴巴对人们的日常购买产生了重要影响,C项表述符合文意;根据常识,A项表述不正确;B项和D项是文中的细节,不能概括文章的大意,故选C。
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