World War II was a global military conflict that took place between ______.

It is undeniable that English is beginning to become a global language in most parts of the world by and large. It is spoken frequently specially in【M1】______ developed countries. This is an inescapable process of globalization. However, according to many experts in linguistics, English is dominating todays modern world and thus, disregard most minority languages.【M2】______ Therefore, it is essential to consider the history of how English gradually becomes dominant down to the present time.【M3】______ The key to English globalization and extension up to the current is basically due to the three eras where English had undergone in the past.【M4】______ English benefited from three overlapping eras of world history. The first era was the imperial expansion of European powers which spread the use of English so well as of other languages, like Spanish, French and Portuguese【M5】______ around the world. The second is the era of technological revolution, begun【M6】______ with the industrial revolution which the English-speaking nations of Britain【M7】______ and United States made a leading part, and the later electronic revolution,【M8】______ led above all by the USA. The third is the era of globalization. The mentioned three eras are pertinent to one another, for example the second era, namely as the electronic revolution has introduced the Internet【M9】______ technology including e-mail, e-commerce, e-business and other e-activities which support the third era, the globalization era likely to take place.【M10】______ Further development of the globalization era leads to the commonness of English in several fields such as science, technology and world trade.

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Was it during the Second World War ______ he died?

  A．that  B．while  C．in Which D．then

The war for independence from Britain was a long and economically costly conflict. The New England fishing industry was temporarily destroyed, and the tobacco colonies in the South were also hard hit. The trade in imports was severely affected, since the war was fought against the country that had previously monopolized the colonies’ supply of manufactured goods. The most serious consequences were felt in the cities, whose existence depended on commercial activity. Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston were all occupied for a time by British troops. Even when the troops had left, British ships lurked in the harbors and continued to disrupt trade. American income from shipbuilding and commerce declined abruptly, undermining the entire economy of the urban areas. The decline in trade brought a fall in the American standard of living. Unemployed shipwrights, dock laborers, and coopers drifted off to find work on farms and in small villages. Some of them joined the Continental army, or if they were loyal to Britain, they departed with the British forces. The population of the New York City declined from 21,000 in 1774 to less than half that number only nine years later in 1783. The disruptions produced by the fighting of the war, by the loss of established markets for manufactured goods, by the loss of sources of credit, and by the lack of new investment all created a period of economic stagnation that lasted for the next twenty years.

Why does the author mention the fishing industry and the tobacoo colonies?

A.to show how the war for independence affected the economy

B.to compare the economic power of two different regions

C.to identify the two largest commercial enterprises in America

D.to give examples of industries controlled by British forces

Why does the author mention the population of New York City in paragraph 2?A.to show that half of New York remained loyal to Britain

B.to compare New York with other cities occupied during the war

C.to emphasize the great short-term cost of the war for New York

D.to illustrate the percentage of homeless people in New York

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根据以下内容回答题：What is eBay?The simple answer is that it is a global trading platform. where nearly any-one can trade practically anything ．People can sell and buy all kinds of products and goods，in-cluding 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 Washingtonwhen he was still a child．At high school，he became very interested in computer programming and after graduating from Tuft University in l988，he worked for the nex．t few years as a com-Duter engineer．In his free time he started eBay as a kind of hobby，at first offering the service free bv word of mouth．By l996 there was so much traffic on the website that he had to upgrade and he began charging a fee to members．Joined by a friend，Peter Skoll，and in l998 by his capable CEO，Meg Whitman，he has never looked back.Even in the．great coru crashes of the 1ate l990s，eBay has gone from strength to strength．it is now one of the ten most Visited onlineshopping websites on the Internet． eBay sells connections，not goods，putting buyer and seller into contact with each other.All vou have to do is take an e．photo，write a description，fill out a sales form. and you’re in business；the worid is your market place．Of course for each item sold eBay gets a percentage and that is agreat deal of money．Every day there are more than sixteen million items listed on eBay and eighty percent of the items are sold.

We leam 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