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完型填空专练（2）先通读下面四篇短文，掌握其大意，然后从A、B、C、D四个选项中选择可以填入空白处的最佳答案。 A 易读度 ★★☆ Where can you buy a football kicked by David Beckham, or an old Learjet (利尔喷气机)? On eBay, of course — the world’s first global (全球的) online marketplace. The football sold for $18,500, and someone ??1? ?$4.9 million for the jet! Every day on eBay, there are 34 million things ??2? ?sale, and 125 million buyers and sellers. You can buy everything — stamps, jewellery, art, clothing, old cars, and anything strange and interesting. All you need is a computer and ??3? ?time. Pierre Omidyar, a French-Iranian computer scientist, ??4? ?eBay in California in 1995. He wanted to create a website for everybody to buy and sell things, not just big businesses. He started the website as a hobby, ??5? ?now it is the biggest business in the world! (??? ) 1. A. lost ????????????????B. made C. paid ? ? ? D. borrowed (??? ) 2. A. for ? ? ? ? ? ?B. to? ??? C. at ? ? ? ? D. in (??? ) 3. A. few ??????????????B. a few ?????? C. little ? ? ? ? D. a little (??? ) 4. A. bought ? ? ?? B. found??? C. discovered D. started? (??? ) 5. A. and ? ? ? ? ? B. but?? ?????? C. or ? ? ? ? ? D. so B 易读度 ★★☆ Jessica Long is a very fast Paralympic (残奥会的) swimmer. She was born in Russia ??1? ?a disability. This was difficult for her mother and Jessica lived in a special home for children. When Jessica was thirteen months old, an American couple, Steve and Beth Long, ??2? ?this home. They adopted (收养) her and took her to the USA with ??3? . Jessica had a new mom and dad. When Jessica was eighteen months old, the ??4? ?said she must lose her legs below the knee. They gave Jessica artificial (假的) legs and she learned to ??5? ?for the first time. When Jessica was a young child, she ??6? ?to swim in her grandparents’ swimming pool. At the age of ten, she started to swim in competitions. “She was ??7? ?the first person in the swimming pool and the last person out of it,” says her father. At twelve, Jessica went to