Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the
If 1999 was the year of e-commerce—and it was, oh, it was!—then the guy who built Amazon. com must be the year' s【B1】______mover. Fearless multibillionaire () leader of the Web's biggest store, Bezos【B2】______a company that adds customers so fast that it doesn't have time to make money. In the process, he has made life【B3】______for anyone else trying to sell goods online. Amazon has spent the past year using its【B4】______customer base—and its one-click ordering system, Amway-like network and here-every-one-knows-your-name customer service—to【B5】______Microsoft-like into nearly everyone else's business. Music and video competitors CDNow and N2k had to combine to fight off Amazon's【B6】______. A summer move into toys and【B7】______helps explain why the【B8】______company has been building a network of 75,000-sq-m warehouses across the country.【B9】______.
Where Bezos doesn't build, he buys.【B10】______. Once a Wall Street man who cooled up financial models for D. E. Shaw, Bezos set off for Seattle in 1994, writing the business plan for Amazon.com on the plane.【B11】______ .
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