必修③ Unit 3

　　单元检测B--阅读理解提速练

　　Ⅰ.阅读理解

　　A

　　(2018·福建泉州质检)With the click of a 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 U．K.)

　　Online shopping was invented and pioneered by Michael Aldrich in the U．K. In 1979 he connected a television via a telephone line to a real­time multi­user transaction (交易) processing computer. He sold mainly Business­to­Business systems. There were a number of significant world firsts with new applications in several business fields.

　　Jeff Bezos (the U．S.A.)

　　Jack Ma (China)

　　As a child, Jack Ma was bad at math but fascinated by English. He traveled to the United States in 1995 as a translator to help a Chinese firm recover payment. The attempt failed. But a friend in Seattle showed Ma the Internet, and an idea began brewing.

　　In 1999, Mr. Ma gathered 17 friends and founded Alibaba in his apartment in Hangzhou. Alibaba's model was simple: allow small and medium­sized Chinese companies to find global buyers they would otherwise only be able to meet at trade shows. It works brilliantly. Alibaba's sales are now more than those of eBay and Amazon combined.

　　语篇解读：本文主要介绍了对网上购物有深远影响的三位人物以及他们对电子商务的促进作用。

　　A．Business­to­Business systems.

B．The World Wide Web server and browser.