2018 课时提能练21　选修6　Unit 16　Stories(A).doc

课时提能练(二十一)　选修6　Unit 16　Stories(A) (对应学生用书第293页) Ⅰ.阅读理解 A 【导学号 (2017·福建省泉州市高三质量检测)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 real-time multi-user transaction (交易)processing computer.He sold mainly Business-to-Business systems.There were a number of significant world firsts with new applications in several business fields. Jeff Bezos(the U．S.A.) Jeff Bezos defined online shopping and rewrote the rules of commerce.Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web server and browser(浏览器)in 1990.In 1994，Jeff Bezos read an article about how the World Wide Web was growing by 2，300% a year.He knew he had to tap into such a great potential for commerce.On July 6，1995，Bezos launched A，which operated out of the garage of his two-bedroom home in suburban Seattle，Washington.With almost no publicity，sales took off immediately.The company has now expanded into dozens of product categories，forcing the worlds 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 math but fascinated by English.He travelled 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.Alibabas model was simple：allow small and medium-sized Chinese companies to find global buyers they would otherwise only be able to meet at trade shows.It works brilliantly.Alibabas 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