【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_______________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 tryit？ ” 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．

【答案】

【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(guò)連接制造商與世界各地的大買主開始居于中國(guó)主導(dǎo)地位，以及阿里巴巴對(duì)人們生活所產(chǎn)生的巨大影響。

【1】A 考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。阿里巴巴的優(yōu)勢(shì)主要在于什么。Alibaba’s advantage wasn’t hard to identify: size. Alibaba is just big, even by Chinese standards. 阿里巴巴的優(yōu)勢(shì)不難識(shí)別：size.阿里巴巴就算用中國(guó)的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)來(lái)看依然很大。

【2】D 考查句意理解以及推理判斷。從文章的劃線句我們可以明白什么。Alibaba is just the middleman.阿里巴巴是中間商。D. Alibaba acts as a bridge between the buyers and sellers.阿里巴巴在買方與賣方間充當(dāng)著橋梁的角色。與劃線句意相符。

【3】B 考查推理判斷。劃線詞it在文中第二段指的是。Why not tryit? ” ……With that, my wonderful new relationship with Alibaba began. 與Alibaba的一種全新關(guān)系開始了。由此兩處都可以看出it在此指代Alibaba.

【4】A 考查細(xì)節(jié)理解以及推理判斷。從文章中我們可以推斷出什么？TMall.com is Alibaba’s other big site, where you can find brand name goods from Nike and Unilever near the lowest prices.由此可知，對(duì)于TM.com，在文中沒有具體提到它盈利多少。故選A。

【5】C 考查推理判斷。文章主要是關(guān)于什么？縱觀全文，本文一作者在中國(guó)的親身經(jīng)歷講了阿里巴巴對(duì)人們?cè)谥袊?guó)的日常購(gòu)買產(chǎn)生的重要影響。故選C。

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