Alibaba started taking the lead in China 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 judge: size. Alibaba is just big, even by Chinese standards. Its market attracts 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 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 second 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 wide 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 low price
B. its big size
C. its not charging small sellers
D. its business-to-business service
2.What can we learn from the underlined sentence in the passage?
A. Alibaba will continue to develop.
B. Alibaba stands out as the best online site.
C. Alibaba acts as a bridge between the buyers and sellers.
D. Alibaba is of middle size among all the online sites.
3.What can be inferred from the passage?
A. TMall.com provides more profit than Taobao.
B.The author’s Chinese teacher is also an online purchase lover.
C. Taobao has no obvious advantage over other similar online sites.
D. Alibaba’s business-to-business service earns more money than retail.
4.What is the passage mainly about?
A. Shopping online in China is TaoBao.
B. How the author purchases online in China.
C. Shopping online goes beyond traditional shopping.
D. Alibaba influences people’s daily purchase in China.
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What a great weight she felt _____ off her mind the moment she heard she had been admitted to a key university.
A. take B. to take
C. taking D. taken
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第二节 完成句子 （共17空；每空1分，满分17分）
1.Do you often ____________(忽略)work and study to check your phone for messages?
2.________ _________(遭受)such a heavy loss, the boss didn’t have the courage to go on with his business.
3.The old man ________ _________(经历) a lot of suffering during the war.
4.__________(事实上) eating habits can vary a good deal over the centuries.
5.After 25 years she has changed ________ ________(认不出来).
6.The fact that he didn’t speak a foreign language put him at a __________(劣势).
7.I haven’t been ___________(决定) where to go during the summer vacations.
8.After the big fire, his house was completely d____________(毁坏), so he had to build a new one.
9.Dad has given me a lot of __________(指导) on choosing a career.
10.We should set aside some time to take __________(有规律的) exercise every day, which is good to our health.
11._________(无论如何), you must tell me the truth.
12.I would ___________(感激) it if you would teach me how to use the computer.
13.He _________ an _________(道歉) to the guests for his rudeness.
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书面表达(满分25分)
假定你是李华，向在你校学习的美国交换生Adam借了一本英文小说，但不慎丢失，一时又买不到。请给他写电子邮件，说明情况。要点包括：
1. 表示歉意；
2. 说明物品丢失的经过；
3. 提出可能的解决方案。
注意：
1. 词数100左右；
2. 可适当增加细节使行文连贯；
3. 开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Adam,
____________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
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"Examine the extended family, and you'll probably find a bossy grandparent, aunt, uncle or cousin in every generation. It's a common inheritable trait," says Russell Barkley, a professor at the Medical University of South Carolina. Other children who may not be particularly bossy can gradually gain control when they sense their parents are weak, hesitant, or in disagreement with each other.
Whether it's inborn nature or developed character at work, too much control in the hands at the young isn't healthy for children or the family, Fear is at the root of a lot of bossy behavior, says family psychologist John Taylor. Children, he says in his book From Defiance to Cooperation, "have secret feelings of weakness" and "a desire to feel safe." It's the parents' role to provide that protection.
When a "boss child" doesn't learn limits at home, the stage is set for a host of troubles outside the family. The overly willful and unbending child may have trouble obeying teachers or coaches, for example, or trouble keeping friends. It can be pretty lonely as the top dog if no one likes your bossy ways.
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1.Bossy children like Stephen Jackson _____.
A. make good decisions
B. show self-centeredness
C. lack care from others
D. have little sense of fear
2.The underlined phrase "inheritable trait" in Paragraph 2 means _____.
A. inborn nature B. accepted theory
C. developed character D. particular environment
3.The study on bossy behavior implies that parents _____.
A. should not set limits for their children
B. should give more power to their children
C. should be strict with their children properly
D. should let children find sense of safety by themselves
4.It can be inferred from the last two paragraphs that bossy children may become
A.relaxed and confident B. hesitant and weak
C.lonely and anxious D.willful and unbending
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Sports are the base of my life, next to my mother who raised me when my dad left us. I have been into sports since I was six years old. I have known many coaches and heard hundreds of their tips, but they usually focused on drills to develop my skills and reach the next level of play.
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In the first two years I slacked off, not putting forth my full potential. Now, unlike the coaches of my youth, this man was interested in how he did off the court. He always made sure I kept up with my studies and was able to be trusted. I can honestly say that no other coach has given me so much advice on how to succeed in basketball, but more importantly, in life. My school is lucky to have such a great person to teach, coach and influence their students. I will always remember my high-school basketball days as one of the hardest times I have ever worked in my life not only in basketball but in my growth as an individual.
1.Different from other coaches, Coach Brian ________.
A. concentrated on skill training
B. expected the team to do well in their studies
C. trained the team to the edge of death
D. asked the team to do more reading than training
2.The underlined phrase “slacked off” in the last paragraph probably means ________.
A. paid no attention B. showed no interest
C. made less effort D. had less passion
3. In the author’s eye, Coach Brian is ________.
A. professional and serious
B. hardworking and honest
C. skilled and cruel
D. strict and helpful
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根据所提供语境，用方框中所给短语的适当形式填空。（每题1.5分，共15分）
call … up make one’s acquaintance with set about by means of in vain hesitate for a moment in terms of get through occur to have a great impact on |
1. It was in New York that I first _________ Professor Smith.
2.Though she _________, she finally went in and asked to try on a dress that was expensive.
3.________weather, here is a good place for the tour.
4.The picture _____ him ______ the time when he was brought up in the village.
5.One afternoon she ____ riding without an umbrella and was caught in a storm at last.
6.She told her husband that she couldn’t _____ the rest of the housework without his help.
7.After the quarrel, I tried my best to fix the misunderstanding between us, but all my efforts seemed_________.
8.What the teachers have done _______ their students in the future.
9.Our teachers are trying to improve our English _______ listening, reading, writing and speaking.
10.It _____ me that I had left my suitcase in the taxi, in which I came home yesterday.
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First-class players of football must have excellent ball control, but it is not just _____ they do with their feet _____ counts.
A. how; that B. that; what
C. what; that D. whether; what
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假如你是李明,你发现部分同学每次遇到重要考试,都会出现一些焦虑症状。请你用英语写一封信,向某学生英文报编辑反映该问题。信的内容应包括下列要点:
焦虑症状:头晕、乏力、睡眠不好等
建议：1.考前制定好合适的复习计划
2.考试期间正常作息
3.睡前洗热水澡、喝热牛奶等有助于睡眠
其他建议(内容由考生自己拟定)
注意: 1.根据以上内容写一篇短文,不要逐句翻译,可适当增加细节以使行文连贯。
2.要准确使用语法和词汇;使用一定的句型、词汇,清楚、连贯地表达自己的意思;
3．词数:100个左右。开头已给出,不计词数。
参考词汇:头晕—dizzy(adj.) 症状—symptom(n.) 焦虑—anxiety(n.)
Dear editor,
I’m Li Ming of Senior Three, Guangming Middle School．I’m writing to tell you about some symptoms of anxiety among us students before exams．_____________________________
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LiMing
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