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】

試題分析：本文是一篇議論文。論述了阿里巴巴通過連接制造商與世界各地的大買家開始處于中國(guó)的主導(dǎo)地位，以及阿里巴巴對(duì)人們生活產(chǎn)生的巨大影響。

1.A 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段的“Alibaba’s advantage wasn’t hard to identify: size. Alibaba is just big, even by Chinese standards.”可知，阿里巴巴的優(yōu)勢(shì)在于大的規(guī)模。A項(xiàng)表述符合文意，故選A。

2.D 推理判斷題。通讀第一段并結(jié)合劃線部分前后的句子可以得知，阿里巴巴是中間商，連接著賣家和買家，起橋梁的作用，和D項(xiàng)表述意思相近，故選D。

3.B 推理判斷題。劃線的it 在文中指代“With that, my wonderful new relationship with Alibaba began.”中的that，說明我在阿里巴巴上購(gòu)物成功，開始了與阿里巴巴建立了奇妙的新關(guān)系。it 指代的是阿里巴巴。A、C、D三項(xiàng)均與文意不符，故選B。

4.A 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)最后一段的最后一句可知A項(xiàng)表述符合文意；根據(jù)第三段的前兩句可知B項(xiàng)和C項(xiàng)表述與文意不符；根據(jù)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貓的盈利情況，D項(xiàng)不符合文意。故選A。

5.5】C 主旨大意題。 縱觀全文，作者用其在中國(guó)的親身經(jīng)歷說明了阿里巴巴對(duì)人們的日常購(gòu)買產(chǎn)生了重要影響，C項(xiàng)表述符合文意；根據(jù)常識(shí)，A項(xiàng)表述不正確；B項(xiàng)和D項(xiàng)是文中的細(xì)節(jié)，不能概括文章的大意，故選C。

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