Online purchases have soared during the Chinese New Year holiday.

    It’s the dead of winter in Shanghai. Delivery man Liu Jia and his colleagues start the day when most of people are still asleep. Working at a distribution point of a shopping website in Shanghai, they promise to deliver products within three hours of an order being placed. “I buy most of my grocery online, especially the heavy items. It’s convenient and cheap compared to the supermarket in my neighborhood,” Customer Chen Hong said. Orders such as these have increased for the New Year, forcing Liu Jia to work around the clock. “The orders are usually rice, laundry detergent（洗涤剂）, tissue paper and snacks, mostly food and articles for everyday use,” Liu Jia said.

According to an industry report, China’s B2C （Business to Customer） online sales are growing at an annual rate of 25 percent. Competition between online giants like Taobao and Jingdong is now fiercer than ever. “The essence of online shopping is that customers can buy products easily. So the competition is about: firstly, the range of products; secondly, the depth under each category of products; third, the price and user experience,” Pan Biao, vice president of YHD.  com, said. E-commerce is one of China’s fastest growing sectors.  It’s changed people’s buying habits, and even their living habits. And it’s had a huge impact on the retail industry. To make online shopping more convenient, major sites are investing heavily to build payment systems

and logistics（物流）networks.

On average, a retailer now can deliver goods to the majority of cities within 3 days, and to towns and more remote areas in the country within a week. “Competition will produce a number of good companies, making better products and services that customers need. In the field of E-commerce, we are leading the world in terms of products, services and industry development,” Liu Yinbin, associate professor with Dept of Information Management, Shanghai University, said.  Experts also say customers are increasingly making their online purchases from mobile devices, opening up vast new opportunities and competition for retailers.

32. All of the following about Liu Jia are true EXCEPT that ________.

    A. he works as an online store owner in Shanghai

    B. he has to work around the clock to deliver so many products

    C. he starts working when most of people are still asleep

    D. he must deliver products within three hours of an order being placed

33. The possible meaning of the underlined word “essence” in Paragraph 3 is ________.

    A. way           B. advantage        C. result            D. influence

34. What can we learn from the passage?

    A. Chen Hong buys most of her electronic products online.

    B. Pan Biao encourages retailers to open up new chances.

    C. China’s B2C online sales are growing at a rate of 25 percent.

    D. Liu Yinbin thinks competition will help make better products and services.

35. Which of the following can be the best topic of the passage?

    A. Customers like buying mobile devices.

    B. Online shopping increases rapidly for Chinese New Year.

    C. Most customers buy food and articles for everyday use.

    D. Taobao and Jingdong are competing fiercely.

1．A.Look up the new words in the dictionary if necessary.

B．________the dictionary if necessary.

2．A.I can live in my house comfortably.

B．My house is comfortable________ ________ ________.

3．A.Because he hasn't completed the programme，he has to stay there for another two weeks.

B．________ ________ ________ the programme，he has to stay there for another two weeks.

4．A.—Tom is very weak and lazy.

—So it is with his wife.

B．—Tom is very weak and lazy.

________ ________ ________ ________ ________his wife.

5．A.So far，Shanghai Expo has received 50 million visitors.

B．________ ________ ________，Shanghai Expo has received 50 million visitors.

 As a film star she was a success, but as a wife she was ________ failure, so their marriage ended in ________ failure.

    A. /; /                    B. /; a                           C. a; a                          D. a; /

When you’ve finished school, don’t forget to come back to visit your school , ___?

       A．do you               B．have you               C．will you            D．won’t you 

     My father had returned from his business visit to London when I came in, rather late, to supper. I could tell at once that he and my mother had been discussing something. In that half-playful, half-serious way I knew so well, he said," How would you like to go to Eton?"

    "You bet, "I cried quickly catching the joke. Everyone knew it was the most expensive, the most famous of schools. You had to be entered at birth, if not before. Besides, even at 12 or 13, I understood my father. He disliked any form of showing off. He always knew his proper station in life, which was in the middle of the middle class, our house was medium-sized; he had avoided joining Royal Liverpool Golf Club and went to a smaller one instead; though once he had got a second-hand Rolls-Royce at a remarkably low price, he felt embarrassed driving it, and quickly changed it for an Austin 1100.

    This could only be his happy way of telling me that the whole boarding school idea was to be given up. Alas! I should also have remembered that he had a liking for being different from everyone else, if it did not conflict with his fear of drawing attention to himself.

    It seemed that he had happened to be talking to Graham Brown of the London office, a very nice fellow, and Graham had a friend who had just entered his boy at the school, and while he was in that part of the world he thought he had better phone them. I remember my hands shaking with the puzzlement of my feelings. There was excitement, at the heart of great sadness.

    "Oh, he doesn't want to go away," said my mother, "You shouldn't go on like this.” "It's up to him," said my father. "He can make up his own mind.”

21.The house the writer's family lived in was _______ .

   A．the best they could afford

   B．rather small

   C．for showing off

   D．right for their social position

22.His father sold his Roils-Royce because _______ .

   A．it was too cheap

   B．it was too old to work well

   C．it was too expensive to possess

   D．it made him feel uneasy

23.What was the writer's reaction to the idea of going to Eton?

   A．He had mixed feelings.        B．He didn't believe it.

   C．He was delighted.            D．He was very unhappy. 

24.We can know from the passage that _______ .

   A．Children who can go to Eton are very famous

   B．Children can go to Eton if they will

   C．It is very difficult for a child to get admitted by Eton

   D．Children don't have the right to decide whether they will go to Eton