2009年普通高校招生统一英语考试试题卷（辽宁卷）3

可知此处是写的词，选A符合。
第三部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）
第一节（共15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）中选出选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
When I was going home to India last year, I called up my mother to ask if she wanted anything from china,
When India had not opened up its markers to the world, I carried suitcase loads of dark glasses and jeans. Thankfully, we can get all these anywhere in India now,
Still ,her answer surprised me:“Green tea,”
As long as I can remember she didn’t even drink Indian tea.
I dutifully bought a big packet of Longjing and headed home to hear the story. My mother and her brother, both regular newspaper readers, believed that Chinese green tea was the wonder drug for all illnesses
At the turn of the century, China was not really familiar to the average Indian, It was a strange country
How things change [And how soon]
Now every town of any size seems to have a “China Market”. And everyone is talking about China
The government of India has planned to send a team to China to see how things are done A minister once said that India must open the doors for more foreign investment（投资）and such a step would “work wonders as it did for China”.
But it’s a two-way street, I just heard about a thousand Shenzhen office workers who have gone to Rangalore to train in software. Meanwhile, all the IT majors are setting up a strong presence in China,
No wonder that trade, which was only in the millions just ten years ago, is expected to his about us$15 billion for last year and us$20 billion by 2008, a goal set by both governments,
No wonder, my colleague wrote some weeks ago about this being the Sino-Indian（中印）century as the two countries started on January I the Sino-Indian Friendship Year,
But what is still a wonder to me is my mother drinking Chinese tea.
56 Why did the mother ask for Chinese green tea?
A, she was tired of Indian tea
B, she had a son working in China.
C, she believed it had a curing effect
D, she was fond of Chinese products,
【答案】uC
【解析】细节理解题。由第五段的---believed that Chinese green tea was the wonder drug for all illnesses
可知他们认为中国茶能治好病，选C。
57 What does the author mean by “it’s a two-way street’ in paragraph 10?
A. China and India have different traffic rules
B. Tea trade works wonders in both India and China
C. Chinese products are popular in both China and India,
D. The exchanges between India and China benefit both
【答案】uD
【解析】词义猜测题。由它上面的第九段The government of India has planned to send a team to China to see -------可知双双开放，实现双赢，选D符合。
58 What do we know about the Indian IT industry?
A. It will move its head office to Shenzhen
B. It is seeking further development in China
C. It has attracted an investment of US$15 billion
D. It caught up with the US IT industry in2008.
【答案】uB
【解析】推理判断题。由a thousand Shenzhen office workers who have gone to Rangalore to train in software.可知印度，选B。
59 In the text the author expresses_____,
A. his concern for his mother’s health
B. his support for drinking Chinese green tea
C. his surprise at China’s recent development
D. his wonder at the growth of India’s IT industry
【答案】uC
【解析】推理判断题。由倒数后三段No wonder可知作者对中国的发展，很惊奇，选C。其他不和句意。
B
What is Bay? The simple answer is that it is a global trading platform where nearly anyone can trade practically anything. People can sell and buy all kinds of products and goods. Including cars, movies and DVDs, sporting goods, travel tickets, musical instruments, clothes and shoes- the list goes on and on
The idea came from Peter Omidyar, who was born in Paris and moved to Washington when he was still a child, At high school, be became very interested in computer programming and after graduating from Tuft University in 1988, He worked for the next few years as a computer engineer. In his free time he started Bay as a kind of hobby, at first offering the service free by word of mouth. By 1996 there was so much traffic on the website that he had to upgrade（升级） and he began charging a fee to members. Joined by a friend, Peter Skill. and in 1998 by his capable CEO, Meg Whitman, he has never looked back. . Even in the great. com crashes of the late 1990s,abay has gone from strength to strength ,. It is now one of the ten most visited online shopping websites on the Internet
eBay sells connections, not goods, putting buyer and seller into contact with each other. All you have to do is lake an e-photo, write a description, fill out a sales form and you are in business: the world is your market place. Of course for each item （商品）sold eBay gets a percentage and that is great deal of money. Every day there are more than sixteen million items listed on eBay and eighty percent of the items are sold
60. We learn from the text that eBay provides people with__
A. a way of buying and selling goods
B. a website for them to upgrade
C. a place to exhibit their own photos
D. a chance to buy things at low prices
【答案】uA
【解析】细节理解题。由第一段第二行People can sell and buy all kinds of products and goods.可知人们借助于bay来交易，选A符合。
61. Why did Peter create eBay after graduating from university?
A. For fun
B. To make money
C. For gathering the engineers
D. To fulfill a task of his company
【答案】uA
【解析】细节理解题。由第二段的第四行In his free time he started Bay as a kind of hobby,可知他是为了娱乐，hobby爱好，故选A.
62. From “he has never looked back “in Paragraph 2 we learn that peter_
A. did not feel lonely
B. was always hopeful
C. did not think about the past
D. became more and more successful
【答案】uD
【解析】句子理解题。借助于上下文，尤其是下句Even in the great. com crashes of the late 1990s,abay has gone from strength to strength ,可知他已经节节胜利，C项和下文意思不吻合，选D符合下文意思。
63. How does eBay make money from its website7?
A. By bringing callers together.
B. By charging for each sale
C. By listing items online
D. By making e-photos.
【答案】uB
【解析】细节理解题。由最后一段的第三行Of course for each item （商品）sold eBay gets a percentage and that is great deal of money.可知它是通过提取每件交易的商品1%来赚钱。