阅读理解材料1-10

Week 1

Passage 3

A few years ago, Dave Stirling had the idea of selling CDs over the Internet. The business he started from his home in Ohio, the USA, now sells 500, 000 CDs a years and has made him into a millionaire(百万富翁) at the age of 24.

“ I could see that this was the future of shopping,” says Stirling. “Why should you pay $15 for a CD and spend the time and the money getting into the store and parking your car? You can have the same CD for half of the price by clicking (敲击) on your computer. And we can find any CD you want and bring it to your door in 24 hours!”

According to Stirling, this is the only beginning, “I believe that one day we’ll do our shopping over the net：it’s easier, quicker and cheaper. Shops and supermarkets will be the past.”

1. Dave Stiring started his business from________.

A. his home

B. his company

C. the office

D. the country

2. How has Stirling become so rich?

A. By making ice cream.

B. By making advertisements.

C. By selling ideas to others.

D. By selling CDs over the Internet.

3. If you pay $15 for a CD in the store, how much should you pay for it over the net?

A. $15.

B. $12

C. $7.5.

D. $30

4. By shopping over the net, you won’t _________.

A. spend the time and the money

B. drive your car any more

C. click on your computer

D. get into the store by yourself

5. What can we learn from the passage?

A. More than half of the Americans prefer to shop over the met.

B. Shops and supermarkets will be the past in the future.

C. Some people don’t like to go shopping over the Internet.

D. It’s easier, quicker and more expensive to do our shopping over the net.

Passage 4

One day Bob took two of his friends into the mountains. They put up their tents(帐篷) and then rode off to a forest to see how the trees were growing.

In the afternoon when they were about ten kilometers from their camp(营地), it started to snow. More and more snow fell. Soon Bob could hardly see his hands before his face. He could not find the road. Bob knew there were two roads. One road went to the camp ,and the other went to his house. But all was white snow. Everything was the same. How could he take his friends back to the camp?

Bob had an idea. The horses! Let the horses take them back! But what would happen if the horses took the road to his house? That would be a trip of thirty-five kilometers in such cold weather!

It was getting late. They rode on and on. At last the horses stopped. Where they? None of them could tell. John looked around. What was that under the tree? It was one of their tents!