that provided content for the new online versions of The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune newspapers. In 1999, Musk got $22 million from the sale of Zip2.

　　Online Banking

　　PayPal

　　In 2000, X．com bought a company called Confinity, which had started an Internet money­transfer process called PayPal.Elon Musk dropped the online banking focus to concentrate on becoming a global payment transfer provider. In 2002, eBay bought PayPal for $1.5 billion.

　　Space Exploration Technologies

　　In 2002, Elon Musk started SpaceX. He is a long­standing member of the Mars Society, a non­profit organization that supports the exploration of Mars, and Musk is interested in building a greenhouse on Mars. SpaceX has been developing rocket technologies to enable Musk's project.

　　Tesla Motors

　　In 2004, Elon Musk cofounded Tesla Motors, of which he is the only product architect. Tesla Motors builds electric vehicles. The company has built an electric sports car, the Tesla Roadster.

　　SolarCity

　　In 2006, Elon Musk cofounded SolarCity, a photovoltaic (光电的) products and services company with his cousin Lyndon Rive.

　　4．What was Elon Musk gifted in when he was young?

　　A．Economics. B．Physics.

　　C．Energy. D．Coding.

　　解析：选D　细节理解题。根据第一段的第二句"A crazy fan of computers, by the ... which he sold for a profit."可知，埃隆·马斯克是一位疯狂的电脑迷，十二岁时他就为自己的视频游戏写代码并获利了；据此可知，他小时候就有写代码的天赋，故D项正确。

　　5．Which of the following provides international payment transfer service?

　　C．PayPal. D．eBay.

解析：选C　细节理解题。根据PayPal部分的第二句"Elon Musk dropped the online banking focus to concentrate on becoming a global payment transfer provider."可知，PayPal提供国际转账支付服务，故C项正确。