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Ten years ago, few people bought things over the Internet. Few thought it wa

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问题     Ten years ago, few people bought things over the Internet. Few thought it was safe. Amazon. com 【S1】______ many people’s minds.
    Ten years 【S2】______, an estimated seven out of ten American adults have used a computer to buy something. Market researchers at com Score Networks suggest online 【S3】______ last year at 117,000 million dollars. That was for goods and travel 【S4】______.
    The person who started Amazon, Jeffrey Bezos, remains its leader. In the 1990s be 【S5】______ employees to help Amazon "get big fast". Yet Amazon invested in many similar businesses that 【S6】______.
    It did not make a profit until 2003. Its most recent profit and earnings report, 【S7】______ last week, was better than many market watchers had expected.
    Today people can buy not just books and music but also many other 【S8】______ through Amazon. It competes with eBay, which celebrates its tenth birthday in September.
    EBay calls itself "the world’s online marketplace". It does not sell anything. Instead, it provides a way for others to sell goods and services. People who want to buy something make 【S9】______ offers through online auctions. EBay has grown to include several other businesses. These include PayPal, a company that processes online payments;
    As online sellers grew, 【S10】______ stores saw the future. Today, stores from the smallest to the biggest sell on the Internet. These include the biggest of all, Wal-Mart.

             Word Bank:
A. urged                  I. failed
B. later                  J. changed
C. advertisements         K. spending
D. released               L. realized
E. sales                  M. services
F. products               N. claimed
G. successful             O. traditional
H. latter
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答案 J
解析 根据句子结构，此处应填一般过去时的及物动词作谓语；根据上下文可知这是一个十年间的比较：原来很少有人通过Internet购物，十年后情况变了。所以应选changed。
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