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 Bay 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 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 lake 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 , eBay gets a percentage and that is a great deal of 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(升级)

C.a place to show 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 sellers together.

B.By charging for each sale

C.By listing items online

D.By making e-photos.

NOT all memories are sweet.Some people spend all their lives trying to forget bad

memories.Violence and traffic accidents can leave people with terrible physical and emotional scars.

Now American researchers think they are close to developing a pill, which will help people forget bad memories.The pill is designed to be taken immediately after a scary events.They hope it might reduce ,or possibly erase ,the effect of painful memories.

    In November, experts tested a drug on people in the US and France.The drug stops the body producing chemicals that fix memories in the brain.So far the research has suggested that only the emotional effects of memories may be reduced, not that the memories are erased.

   The research has caused a great deal of argument.Some think it is a bad idea, while others support it.

   Supporters say it could lead to pills that prevent or treat soldiers' troubling memories after war.They say that there are many people who suffer from terrible memories.

   "Some memories can ruin people's lives.They come back to you when you don't want to have them in a daydream or nightmare.They usually come with very painful emotions," said Roger Pitman.

    But those who are against the research say that changing memories is very dangerous because memories make us different from others.They also help us all avoid the mistakes of the past.

   "All of us can think of bad events in our lives that were horrible at the time but make us who we are.I'm not sure whether we want to wipe those memories out, "said Rebecca Dresser, a medical ethicist.

1.What does the underlined word “erase” mean?

A.change                B.remove               C.add                     D.forgive

2.The passage is mainly about ________.

A.a new medical invention

B.a new research on the pill

C.a way of erasing painful memories

D.the argument about the research on the pill

3.The drug tested on people can ________.

  A.cause the brain to fix memories

  B.stop people remembering bad events

  C.prevent body producing certain chemicals

  D.wipe out the bad memories

4.Which of the following statements is TRUE?      

  A.Some people doubt whether the pills should be used to help people forget bad memories.

  B.the pill will stop people's bad memories.

  C.taking the pill will do harm to people's health

D.the pill has been produced in America

5.Which of the following does Rebecca Dresser agree with?

A.Some memories can ruin people's lives.

B.People want to get rid of bad memories.

C.Having bad events makes us different from others.

D.The pill will reduce people's sufferings from bad memories.

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此行多一个词:把多余的词用斜线(﹨)划掉,在该行右边横线上写出该词,并也用斜线划掉。

此行缺一个词:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(^),在该行右边横线上写出该加的词

此行错一个词:在错的词下划一横线,在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

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  One day, I went to the market and find many                                           1.             

beautiful birds in few cages for sale.I heard                                              2.             

two young men talked.One said,“ I caught eight                                        3.             

birds like these on last Sunday, but not a single one                                      4.             

was lively the next morning.” Oh, God! The birds                                     5.             

are being killed.The number is reducing year after year.                           6.             

Birds, like another animals, are our friends.They eat a                               7.             

lot of pests and make our nature beautifully.                                             8.             

So we must do something to prevent them killed.                                      9.             

We wish that everyone will care for them.                                                10.             

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