18.How can one make himself better understood?

A.By speaking up. B.By talking quickly. C.By hiding mistakes.

19.What is the main purpose of recording oneself?

A.To present models. B.To share experience. C.To improve pronunciation.

20.How many ways are introduced?

A.Two. B.Three. C.Four.

第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）

第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

　　A

At a click of mouse consumers can purchase the goods and service they need at online shops.What they have to do is waiting for the goods sent to their homes.We shall all be grateful to the pioneers of online shopping for bringing us such convenience.

Michael Aldrich（the UK）

　　Online shopping was invented and pioneered by Michael Aldrich in the UK.In 1979 he connected a television via a telephone line to a real-time multi-user transaction（交易）processing computer.He sold mainly Business-to- Business systems.There were a number of significant world firsts with new applications in several business fields.

　　Jeff Bezos（the USA）

Jeff Bezos defined online shopping and rewrote the rules of commerce.Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web server and browser（浏览器）in 1990.In 1994,Jeff Bezos read an article about how the World Wide Web was growing by 2,300 percent a year.He knew he had to tap into such a great potential for commerce.On July 6,1995, Bezos launched Amazon,com,which operated out of the garage of his two bedroom home in suburban Seattle, Washington.With almost no publicity,sales took off immediately.The company has now expanded into dozens of product categories,forcing the world's biggest retailer（零售商）to