In 1998 consumers could purchase virtually anything over the Internet. Books, compact discs, and even stocks were (1) from World Wide Websites that seemed to (2) almost daily a few years earlier, some people had predicted that consuners accustomed to shopping in stores would be (3) to buy things that they could not see or touch (4) . For a growing number of time-starved consumers, however, shopping from their home computer was proving to be a convenient (5) to driving to the store.
A research estimated that in 1998 US consumers could purchase $ 7.3 billion of goods over the Internet, double the 1997 total. Finding a bargain was getting easier, (6) the rise of online auctions and Websites that did comparison shopping on the Internet for the best (7) .
For all the consumer interest, (8) in eyberspaee was still a largely (9) business, however. Internet pioneer Amazon. eom, which began sell
A. developed
B. branched
C. separated
D. distributed
Part C Directions: Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET 2. ( 10 Points) Before Dr. Luther L. Terry, then the Surgeon General of the United States, issued his office’s first "Report on Smoking and Health" more than 30 years ago, thousands of articles had already been written on the effects of tobacco use on the human body. (46) Tobacco companies had countered the reports -- which aimed to show links between smoking and cancer and other serious diseases -- with denials and competing studies. (47) So in 1964, Terry and his Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health knew they were stepping into a major pit of controversy when they announced "cigarette smoking is a health hazard of sufficient importance in the United States to warrant appropriate remedial action". It was America’s first widely publicized acknowledgme
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Learning a foreign language is one of the most difficult yet most rewarding experiences for me. My experi- ence with English began in junior middle school. Because of a patient teacher and his positive method, .I was eager to study English and stayed at the top of my class. While in senior middle school, however, the method of my teacher made me lose the desire to say anythingin English. That state lasted until I went to college, where unlike the problem I came across in the senior middle school, my class was very large and some students spoke better than I did. So, once again, although for different reasons, I was afraid to speak and felt that my English would stay at the same level forever. Only when I took the online course did I come to reap the benefits from English learning.
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