兴化市第一中学高一英语第14周45分钟练习（满分100分，训练时间45分钟）班级_ 学号_ 姓名_ 得分_阅读理解AGoogle Works Miracles GOOGLE (www.google.com) is a daily miracle to millions of people. If the Internet had only this very fast search engine, it would have justified its existence many times over. It is the most popular search engine on the web with a 54 percent market share, ahead of Yahoo! You type almost anything, however unclear, into the space provided and in a second it has come up with hundreds of references. It knowledge is power, then Google commands the gateway.Yahoo! Becomes GiantYAHOO (www.yahoo.com) was the first wonder of the web, and in many respects, it still is. It started in January 1994 when two California graduate students, Jerry Yang and David Filo, started compiling (编译) a database of links, mainly for their personal use. But well before the end of the year, it had become recognizable as Yahoo we know today. In the past seven years, Yahoo had grown rapidly, partly through a long string of buys. Yahoo now offers almost everything you could want: emails, instant messages, chats, clubs, photo albums, and a lot more. eBay Enables Everyone to Buy and SelleBay (www.ebay.com ), which deals with online trading and shopping services worldwide. It has, for instance, opened up a global marketplace in which people from Beijing, San Francisco, or Moscow can bid (投标) against each other for products put up for sale by someone in London. The companys online service permits sellers to list items that is available online seven days a week. Amazon Makes Buying a New ExperienceAmazon (www.amazon.com) started out as online bookstore, constantly putting up new book titles it offered for sale. In the late 1990s, Amazon and more than four million titles after adding CDs, videos, DVDs and games. It continued to add new lines of business including toys, computer software, electronics, like MP3 players, power tolls, home improvement products and online sales. For regular users, Amazon has made itself the shortest possible path between wanting and buying.1. What is Google used mainly for?A. Commanding the gateway B. Searching for information C. Storing reference books D. Providing extra space2. What goods did Amazon sell when it started its business?A. Videos and games B. Different books C Power tools D. MP3 players3. Which of the following is true?A. Buying and selling can only be done through AmazonB. If you feed in something unclear, Google will refuse to do the searching.C. Yahoo owns more market shares than any other companies on the web. D. eBay Companys online service is always there for its users.BThe other day, my friend Jane was invited to a 40th birthday party. The time printed on the invitation was 7:30 pm. Jane went off with her husband, expecting a merry evening of wine, food, and song.By 9:45, everybody was having great fun, but no food had appeared. Jane and David were restless. Other guests began whispering that they, too, were starving. But no one wanted to leave, just in case some food was about to appear. By 11:00, there was still no food, and everyone was completely off their heads. Jane and David left hungry and angry.Their experience suggests that the words on the printed invitations need to be made clearer. Everyone reads and understands the invitations differently. Most of us would agree that 6:30 -8:30 pm means drinks only, go out to dinner afterwards; 8:00 pm or 8:30 pm means possible dinner, but 9:30 pm and any time thereafter means no food, eat beforehand, roll up late.But this is not always the case. If asked to a students party at 6:30 pm, it is normal for guests not to appear before midnight, if at all, and no one cares. Being the first to arrive -looking eager -is social death. When my mother is asked to a party at 6:30, she likes to be there, if not on time, then no later than seven. My age group (late thirties) falls somewhere between the two, but because we still think were young, were probably closer to student-time than grown-up time.The accepted custom at present is confusing, sometimes annoying, and it often means you may go home hungry, but it does lend every party that precious element of surprise.4. The underlined words “off their heads” probably mean _.A. tired B. crazy C. curious D. hopeless5. Jane and Davids story is used to show that _.A. party invitations can be confusingB. party-goers usually get hungry at partiesC. people should ask for food at partiesD. birthday parties for middle-aged people are dull6. For some young people, arriving on time for a students party will probably be considered _.A. very difficult B. particularly thoughtfulC. friendly and polite D. socially unacceptable7. What is the general idea of the text? A.