50.A.observation B.recognition C.judgment D.puzzle A What is eBay? The simple answer is that it is a global trading platform World Records 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 and he began charging a fee to members. Joined by a friend, Peter Skill, and in 1998 by his capable CEO, Meg Whitman, 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 to take 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 sold 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. 查看更多

 

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When you are ______ about something, you are ______ to do whatever you can to get it.


  1. A.
    anxious; likely
  2. B.
    eager; possible
  3. C.
    enthusiastic; likely
  4. D.
    concerned; probable

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The company wasted________ investing in out- of- date technology.


  1. A.
    a millionpound
  2. B.
    millionsof pounds
  3. C.
    severalmillions of pound
  4. D.
    a millionof pounds

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Scientists ________ in many ways for their contributions _______ the development and progress of human society.


  1. A.
    always honor; to
  2. B.
    always honor; for
  3. C.
    are always honored; to
  4. D.
    are always honored; for

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The local police were______ by their authorities to _____ the situation as soon as possible.


  1. A.
    said to; control
  2. B.
    ordered; manage
  3. C.
    instructed; handle
  4. D.
    told; hold

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Most people, when they talk about education, think that it is only a task for teachers, ________ we teachers consider it is a job of the whole society.


  1. A.
    whenever
  2. B.
    while
  3. C.
    thus
  4. D.
    otherwise

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