What is Bay? 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, be became very interested in puter programming and after graduating from Tuft University in 1988, He worked for the next few years as a puter 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,abay 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 （商品）sold eBay gets a percentage and that is great deal of money. Every day there are more than sixteen million items listed on eBay and eighty percent of the items are sold.
【小题1】We learn from the text that eBay provides people with A．a way of buying and selling goodsB．a website for them to upgradeC．a place to exhibit their own photosD．a chance to buy things at low prices【小题2】Why did Peter create eBay after graduating from university? A．For funB．To make moneyC．For gathering the engineersD．To fulfill a task of his pany【小题3】From “he has never looked back “in Paragraph 2 we learn that peter_ A．did not feel lonelyB．was always hopefulC．did not think about the pastD．became more and more successful【小题4】How does eBay make money from its website7? A．By bringing callers together.B．By charging for each saleC．By listing items onlineD．By making e-photos.A
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(答案→)A
解析：
【小题1】细节理解题。由第一段第二行People can sell and buy all kinds of products and goods.可知人们借助于bay来交易，选A符合。
【小题2】细节理解题。由第二段的第四行In his free time he started Bay as a kind of hobby,可知他是为了娱乐，hobby爱好，故选A.
【小题3】句子理解题。借助于上下文，尤其是下句Even in the great. crashes of the late 1990s,abay has gone from strength to strength ,可知他已经节节胜利，C项和下文意思不吻合，选D符合下文意思。
【小题4】细节理解题。由最后一段的第三行Of course for each item （商品）sold eBay gets a percentage and that is great deal of money.可知它是通过提取每件交易的商品1%来赚钱。