【正文】 nnected a television via a telephone line to a realtime multiuser transaction（交易） processing sold mainly Businessto Business 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 BernersLee invented the World Wide Web server and browser（瀏覽器） in 1994,Jeff Bezos read an article about how the World Wide Web was growing by 2,300 percent a knew he had to tap into such a great potential for July 6,1995, Bezos launched Amazon,which operated out of the garage of his two bedroom home in suburban Seattle, almost no publicity,sales took off pany has now expanded into dozens of product categories,forcing the world’s biggest retailer（零售商） to rethink their business models,and finally changing the way people shop. Jack Ma（ China） As a child,Jack Ma was bad at maths but fascinated by travelled to the United States in 1995 as a translator to help a Chinese firm recover attempt a friend in Seattle showed Ma the Inter, and an idea began brewing. In 1999,Mr Ma gathered 17 friends and founded Alibaba in his apartment in ’s model was simple:allow small and mediumsized Chinese panies to find global buyers they would otherwise only be able to meet at trade works ’s sales are now more than those of eBay and Amazon bined. made Amazon, a success? systems. World Wide Web server and browser publicity. from retailers. did Jack Ma have the idea of founding Alibaba? translator helped him. Chinese firm inspired him. C lie was introduced to the Inter. was funded by some panies. do the pioneers have in mon? have improved puters. have sold goods worldwide. have enlarged product categories. have contributed to online shopping. B An old lady was walking with her basket down the middle of a street in Petrograd to the great confusion of the traffic and with no small danger to was pointed out to her that the pavement was the place for pedestrians, but she replied:“I’m going to walk where I ’ve got liberty now.”It did not occur to the dear old lady that if liberty entitled（授權） the pedestrian to walk down the middle of the road,then the end of such liberty would be universal would be getting in everybody else’s way and nobody would get liberty would have bee social chaos. There is a danger of the world getting libertydrunk in these days like the old lady,and it is just as well to remind ourselves of what the rule of the road means that in order that the liberties of all may be preserved, the liberties of everybody must be the policeman steps into the middle of the road and puts out his hand,he is the symbol not of tyranny（暴政） ,but of liberty. Liberty is not a personal affair only,but a social contract（契約） .In matters which do not touch anybody else’s liberty,of course,I may be as free as 1 I go down the street dressed strangely,who shall say me no?We have a whole kingdom in which we rule alone and can do what we directly we step out of that kingdom,our personal liberty of action bees qualified by other people’s liberty. We all tend to fet reasonable consideration for the rights or feelings of others is the base of social conduct. does the first paragraph serve as? background. introduction. ment. explanation. is an example of getting libertydrunk? anywhere you like. along the pavement. whatever you like. loud noises in the wild. might the author have stated his “rule of the road” (Paragraph 2) as? the orders of policemen. what you like in private. walk in the middle of the road. not behave inconsiderately in public. does the underlined word “qualified” (Paragraph 3) mean? . . . . C It was an old apartment building,in which many parts are made of of the warning of firemen, the residents wouldn’t move out because they were poor and had nowhere to go. One night,the building was on residents began to run for their half of the population had got themselves out,the wooden staircases broke remaining residents rushed to the roof of the third floor, which had not been touched by the flames yet,waiting for the firemen to rescue did arrive in a short the fire engines and ladders could not reach the building as the alley