湖北省随州市2014高考英语阅读理解、短文改错训练（七）（答案或解析）.docVIP

湖北省随州市2014高考英语阅读理解、短文改错训练（7）（答案或解析） A British freshman, who launched a business selling tiny advertising space on a website, is going to be a millionaire from the project. Alex Tew, 21, sold the first spot on his Million Dollar Homepage at the end of last August. A few months on, the project has taken the Internet by storm, attracted the attention of big businesses, and made Alex richer than he hoped for in his wildest dreams. Alex studies business management at Nottingham University. Although he worked part－time in a fast－food restaurant, he found it difficult to make ends meet. Soon an idea came to him. Like all great concepts the idea is simple in itself. The homepage is divided into 10,000 boxes, each made up of l00 pixels(像素). Companies or individuals are invited to buy one or more boxes for$100 each—$1 a pixel—and put on a logo. When a websurfer clicks on the logo he is transported to the company or person’s website. In the first few days he sold a few hundred pixels here and there, mainly to friends and relatives, but within weeks the site was a huge talking－point on the Internet. A range of businesses from a big international phone company and media companies to small businesses offering computer games have signed up! Companies, many of which only signed up for a bit of fun, have been amazed at how many people have been directed to their businesses from the site. Hundreds of imitation sites have now sprung up. Alex planned to try to sell all one million pixels, earning himself a cool ￡568,000($1 million). On average 700 pixels a day are sold－so Alex could have been a millionaire in this January. Does he have any plans to spend his cash? “I’m not going to do anything silly，” Alex said. “I know how quickly the money could disappear. It’s hard to believe what happened. The site’s success is a real testament(证明) to the massive power of the Internet.” 1．When Alex Tew first made his Million Dollar Homepage, he ______. A. was sure that he would become rich soon B.