【題目】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(對…來說是次要的) 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(廣大) 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】What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

A. Alibaba B. a new store

C. a business D. a foreign website

【2】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.

【3】 What is the passage mainly about?

A. Shopping online is TaoBao.

B. Alibaba greatly influences people’s daily purchase in China.

C. The influence of shopping online goes beyond traditional shopping.

D. How the author purchases online in China.

【4】What can we learn from the underlined sentence in the passage refer to?

A. Alibaba acts as a bridge between buyers and sellers.

B. Alibaba will continue to develop.

C. Alibaba stands out as the best online site.

D. Alibaba is of middle size among all the online sites.

【答案】

【1】A

【2】A

【3】B

【4】A

【解析】

試題分析:本文是一篇說明文。一位美國人在中國老師的幫助下開始接觸淘寶網(wǎng)，以一位美國人的視角，介紹了阿里巴巴在中國零售市場舉足輕重的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)地位。其中淘寶網(wǎng)占的份額又是最多的。闡述了淘寶網(wǎng)給人們的生活帶來了許多便利。

【1】A詞義猜測題。根據(jù)第二段第一句If you want a quick look into the influence of Alibaba on daily Chinese life, take my experience可知作者以自己的親身經(jīng)歷展示阿里巴巴的影響力，同時根據(jù)第二段最后一句my wonderful new relationship with Alibaba began.作者在老師的建議下開始了解阿里巴巴，種種暗示可知“it”指代阿里巴巴，故選A。

【2】A推理判斷題。根據(jù)最后一段的最后一句話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.可知作者發(fā)現(xiàn)老師的iPad上有許多她在淘寶上的采購歷史，可推理出老師熱衷于網(wǎng)購，故選A。

【3】B主旨理解題。分析全文，第一段分析了阿里巴巴在全國經(jīng)濟(jì)發(fā)展中的地位， 接著以自己的親身經(jīng)歷寫了淘寶網(wǎng)（屬于阿里巴巴產(chǎn)業(yè)）對自己生活的影響，提出shopping online is shopping, and shopping is Taobao.的觀點，所以本文主要講解了阿里巴巴對人們購買的影 響，故選B。

【4】A理解判斷題。由本段倒數(shù)第二句Its marketplaces attract 231 million active buyers, 8 million sellers, 11.3 billion orders a year可知阿里巴巴每年吸引了很多的顧客、商家和訂單，也就是商家和顧客通過阿里這個平臺進(jìn)行交易，故選A。

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