Section C

Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the

If 1999 was the year of e-commerce—and it was, oh, it was!—then the guy who built Amazon. com must be the year' s【B1】mover. Fearless multibillionaire () leader of the Web's biggest store, Bezos【B2】a company that adds customers so fast that it doesn't have time to make money. In the process, he has made life【B3】for anyone else trying to sell goods online. Amazon has spent the past year using its【B4】customer base—and its one-click ordering system, Amway-like network and here-every-one-knows-your-name customer service—to【B5】Microsoft-like into nearly everyone else's business. Music and video competitors CDNow and N2k had to combine to fight off Amazon's【B6】. A summer move into toys and【B7】helps explain why the【B8】company has been building a network of 75,000-sq-m warehouses across the country.【B9】.

Where Bezos doesn't build, he buys.【B10】. Once a Wall Street man who cooled up financial models for D. E. Shaw, Bezos set off for Seattle in 1994, writing the business plan for Amazon.com on the plane.【B11】__ .

【B1】

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【单选题】Why does Brendan think he might retire early(). A．He think computer games might not always sell so well. B．He wants to stop working when he is a millionaire (百万富翁). C．One has to be young to write comp...

Computer programmer Brendan Tammy earned ￡55000 a year by designing new computer games, yet he cannot find a bank prepared to let him have a check card. Instead, he has been told to wait another two years until he is 18.

He works for a small company in Liverpool, where most young people of his age are looking for jobs. Brendan’s biggest headache is how to use his money. Though he has high payment, he cannot drive a car, or get credit cards.

Brendan got his job four months ago, a year after leaving school with six O-levels (普通考试科目) and working for a time in a computer shop. "I got the job because the people who run the company knew I had already written some programs," he said.

"I suppose 55000 pounds sounds a lot but I hope it will come to more than that this year." He spends some of his money on records and clothes, and gives his mother 20 pounds a week as he lives with his parents. But most of his spare time is spent working.

"Unfortunately, computing was not part of our studies at school," he said. "But I had been studying it in books and magazines for four years in my spare time. I knew what I wanted to do and never considered staying on at school. Most people in this business are fairly young, anyway. I would like to earn a million and I suppose early retirement (退休) is a possibility. You never know when the market might disappear. \

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