高二英语人教版必修五练习Unit1课下能力提升(四)

Unit 1 课下能力提升（四）

Ⅰ.阅读理解

With the click of a mouse consumers can purchase the goods and service they need at online

shops. What they have to do is waiting for the goods sent to their homes. We shall all be grateful

to the pioneers of online shopping for bringing us such convenience.

Michael Aldrich (the U．K.)

Online shopping was invented and pioneered by Michael Aldrich in the U．K. In 1979 he

connected a television via a telephone line to a real­time multi­user transaction (交易) processing

puter. He sold mainly Business­to­Business systems. There were a number of significant world

firsts with new applications in several business fields.

Jeff Bezos (the U．S.A.)

Jeff Bezos defined online shopping and rewrote the rules of merce. Tim Berners-Lee invented

the World Wide Web server and browser (浏览器) in 1990. In 1994, Jeff Bezos read an article

about how the World Wide Web was growing by 2,300% a year. He knew he had to tap into such a

great potential for merce. On July 6, 1995, Bezos launched Amazon , which operated out of

the garage of his two­bedroom home in suburban Seattle, Washington. With almost no publicity,

sales took off immediately. The pany has now expanded into dozens of product categories, forcing

the world’s biggest retailer (零售商) to rethink their business models, and finally changing the

way people shop.

Jack Ma (China)

As a child, Jack Ma was bad at math but fascinated by English. He traveled to the United

States in 1995 as a translator to help a Chinese firm recover payment. The attempt failed. But a

friend in Seattle showed Ma the Internet, and an idea began brewing.

In 1999, Mr. Ma gathered 17 friends and founded Alibaba in his apartment in Hangzhou.

Alibaba’s model was simple: allow small and medium­sized Chinese panies to find global buyers

they would otherwise only be able to meet at trade shows. It works brilliantly. Alibaba’s sales are

now more than those of eBay and Amazon bined.

语篇解读：本文主要介绍了对网上购物有深远影响的三位人物以及他们对电子商务的促进作用。

1．What made Amazon a success?

A．Business­to­Business systems.

B．The World Wide Web server and browser.

C．mercial publicity.

D．Help from retailers.

解析：选B 细节理解题。根据第三段的“Tim Berners­Lee invented the World Wide Web server and browser (浏览器) in 1990.”及“With almost no publicity, sales took off immediately.”可知，亚马逊公司依托互联网发展迅猛。故选B项。

2．How did Jack Ma have the idea of founding Alibaba?

A．A translator helped him.

B．A Chinese firm inspired him.

C．He was introduced to the Internet.

D．He was funded by some panies.

解析：选C 细节理解题。根据第四段最后一句“But a friend in Seattle showed Ma the

Internet, and an idea began brewing.”可知，当朋友把互联网介绍给马云时，他开始有了想法。故选C项。

3．What do the pioneers have in mon?

A．They have improved puters.

B．They have sold goods worldwide.

C．They have enlarged product categories.

D．They have contributed to online shopping.

解析：选D 推理判断题。根据介绍的人物可知，他们都在互联网背景下从事商业贸易活动，因此他们都对网上购物起到了推动作用。故选D项。

Ⅱ.阅读七选五

__1__ Moving from high school into college can be especially difficult because of the

freedom students experience in college along with a new set of expectations.

In high school, students usually live at home, and their parents take care of all their physical

needs such as food and housing. __2__ Parents are also there to offer help and make sure that the

students’ homework is done. During the school day, students rarely have free time. They go

directly from one class to another. Teachers are always around to tell the students what to do.

__3__ So students can often plete their homework and reading in a short time.

__4__ They may be responsible for shopping, paying bills, and laundry. They also may have

to cook their own meals. Their parents are not around to help with homework or even to check if it

has been done. Contrary to students in high school, students in college may have a lot of free time

between classes, but must discipline themselves to use this time productively for homework and

other assignments. __5__

A．Students do not usually have to shop for their food, take time to pay bills, or even do their

own laundry.

B．High school students have to bury themselves in piles of papers.

C．Finally, the work itself is not so challenging.

D．By contrast, in college, students often live away from home in dorms or apartments. E．In college, students may apply to a bank loan and others will try to find part-time jobs.

F．Each new level of education brings new challenges and demands to students.

G．Most importantly, college requires a higher level of thinking and a lot more work than

high school.

语篇解读：每一个新阶段的教育都会给学生带来新的挑战和要求，本文详细介绍了大学和高中生活学习的不同之处。

1．解析：选F 设空处下一句中提到“Moving from high school into college”和F项中的“Each new level of education”吻合。故选F项。