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阅读理解     Yesterday I cleared up my house and I mean really cleared up my house. The room that gave the most results was my husband's "office". There I found: one right-footed shoe, size 10 (he lost the other one somewhere), a set of Star Wars videos and two small china cats someone gave me last birthday. I collected these "finds" and took them downstairs and logged (登录）on to eBay: the answer to all our rubbish.     What is eBay? It aims to provide a global trading platform where almost anyone can trade almost anything. The idea came from Pierre Omidyar. Born in Paris, Omidyar moved to Washington when he was still a child. At High School he became very interested in computer programming and after graduating from Tufts University in 1988, he worked for the next few years as a computer engineer. In his free time he started eBay as a kind of hobby, originally offering the service free by word of mouth. By 1996 there was so much traffic on the site that he had to upgrade and he began collecting fees. Joined by a friend, Peter Skoll and in 1998 by his dynamic CEO, Meg Whitman, he has never looked back. Even in the great dot-com crashes of the late 1990s eBay went from strength to strength. It is now one of the ten most visited online shopping sites on the Internet.     If you think about it, it's a perfect Internet idea. All you have to do is take an e-photo, write a description, fill out a sales form and you're in business; the world is your market place.     Some of the more bizarre goods up for offer have been a piece of French bread, partially eaten by Justin Timberlake, advertising space on a man's head, and a pair of used false teeth.     One week later I am proud of having a clean and tidy home and € 110 in cash. Someone even bought the shoe. （1） Why did the author log on to eBay? A . To sell some useless things. B . To buy shoes for her husband. C . To exchange things with other users. D . To search for things used at the office. （2） What can we infer from Paragraph 2 about eBay? A . It aims to provide free service. B . It was the idea of a high school boy. C . It has become more and more successful. D . It faced a difficult situation in the late 1980s. （3） The underlined word "bizarre" in Paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to _____. A . popular B . unusual C . valuable D . unacceptable （4） What does the author think of eBay? A . She is satisfied with it. B . She is worried about it. C . She shows no interest in it. D . She thinks it wastes a lot of money. 答案： A C B A

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