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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—andAlibaba 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 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.
【小题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
【小题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.
【小题3】What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2 refer to?
A．a new storeB．Alibaba
C．a businessD．a foreign website
【小题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.
【小题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：【小题1】A
【小题2】D
【小题3】B
【小题4】A
【小题5】C
试题分析：本文是一篇议论文。论述了阿里巴巴通过连接制造商与世界各地的大买主开始居于中国主导地位，以及阿里巴巴对人们生活所产生的巨大影响。
【小题1】A 考查细节理解。阿里巴巴的优势主要在于什么。Alibaba’s advantage wasn’t hard to identify: size. Alibaba is just big, even by Chinese standards. 阿里巴巴的优势不难识别：size.阿里巴巴就算用中国的标准来看依然很大。
【小题2】D 考查句意理解以及推理判断。从文章的划线句我们可以明白什么。Alibaba is just the middleman.阿里巴巴是中间商。D. Alibaba acts as a bridge between the buyers and sellers.阿里巴巴在买方与卖方间充当着桥梁的角色。与划线句意相符。
【小题3】B 考查推理判断。划线词it在文中第二段指的是。Why not tryit? ” ……With that, my wonderful new relationship with Alibaba began. 与Alibaba的一种全新关系开始了。由此两处都可以看出it在此指代Alibaba.
【小题4】A 考查细节理解以及推理判断。从文章中我们可以推断出什么？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，对于TM.com，在文中没有具体提到它盈利多少。故选A。
【小题5】C 考查推理判断。文章主要是关于什么？纵观全文，本文一作者在中国的亲身经历讲了阿里巴巴对人们在中国的日常购买产生的重要影响。故选C。
考点：考查故事类短文阅读。
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