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am writing to withdraw my membership from your online languages courses. In your advertisement, you said that if I purchase a course online, I can get another instructors course free. In addition, I was told that I would receive three textbooks free of charge. I paid $100 through my credit card and I chose the class with Instructor Kevin Smith. I was very excited to receive all three textbooks. I was greatly disappointed, however, when I opened the books. I found out that the textbooks are not for the class that I purchased. Actually, I should download the textbooks and print out them by myself. Since I dont have a printer in my house, it is very inconvenient for me. I was also frustrated with your free course which was recorded 8 years ago. You never explained this when I called you about the class. I also got the impression that I would get a book certificate that I can use to purchase books and other materials from you. I did not find a book certificate in the package. I wonder what happened to all the guarantees you have indicated in your advertisement. Please let me know what action you will take to correct this mistake. I hope to hear from you in a weeks time; otherwise, I think I am entitled to receive a full refund. Jim Morrison

Why was this letter written？

A．To complain about the late delivery

B．To commend the company"s outstanding courses

C．To cancel online membership

D．To inquire about language courses

oft Word for creating documents, Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, Outlook e-mail and other applications. But now Google is offering some of those same applications with its free, web-based services. Google launched it four years ago. But recently it launched a free spreadsheet program and word processing program that are acquired from another company. Together, they are now called Google Docs & Spreadsheets. Well, neither the word processing or spreadsheet pro- gram is as full-featured as Microsoft's offering, they do provide users with the basic tools they need to write and calculate. Perhaps more important, they also allow you to work from home, office or the road without having you save your files, because they are saved and backed up on Google secure servers. They are also easy to share, facilitating collaboration between people in different parts of the world.Of course, if you are not online, you don't have access. So forget about writing that letter or polishing off that spreadsheet at 37,000 feet.

What programs does google launch recently？

A．A free word processing program and excel program.

B．A free word processing program and excel program.'

C．A free spreadsheet program and word processing program.

D．A free spreadsheet program and excel program.

eally tough this semester.

W: Yes, it's pretty hard work. I never seem to have any free time; I'm always in the library.

Q: Where is the probable place for this conversation？

(13)

A．In a restaurant.

B．On campus.

C．In the police station.

D．In the doctor's office.

Regular ecommerce merchant accounts are expensive. But ecommerce 【S1】______

service providers promote "free merchant accounts" as alternatives

to help for online business owners to reduce the cost of handling 【S2】______

online transactions. You can start with selling your products on the 【S3】______

Internet without the hefty upfront cost of a regular ecommerce

merchant account. Though free merchant accounts are, of course, 【S4】______

not completely free. There're several options to conduct in online 【S5】______

transactions cost-effectively.

3rd Party Credit Card Processors You can handle online credit

card for processing without a merchant account. 3rd party credit card 【S6】______

processors are companies that accept credit card orders on behalf

of other online businesses. They process the transactions and

send you a monthly payment. If you don't sell, you don't pay. However,

the credit card processors charge you by a few extra percentage points 【S7】______

on transactions in comparison to having your own ecommerce 【S8】______

merchant account.

Discount Merchant Accounts Merchant banks may waive setup fee

and even monthly fee under certain conditions while charging a 【S9】______

higher transaction fee. You do have your own merchant account

in comparing to the option of using a third part credit card processor. 【S10】______

If you don't process, you don't pay.

Merchant Account Bandied with Ecommerce Hosting

Ecommerce hosting companies offer merchant account as part of

hosting package. But they will waive your setup fee and monthly fee if 【S11】______

you sign up with their ecommerce hosting package. They charge by a 【S12】______

few percentage points on transactions.

【S1】______

l bring you the important headlines from around the world from new farming innovations in Africa to important mergers in Asia. We cover all markets and investments with constant updates from our reporters on every continent. Furthermore, Bizday.com gives users an interactive program that allows viewers to customize their home page to focus on markets and stories that are most important to them. And of course, bizday.com features up-to-the-second stock quotes, currency conversion, and opinions from well-respected analysts. Also, if you sign up now, you'll get a free yearly planner. A limited supply is in stock, so what are you waiting for？ Visit bizday.com to see where the business news is happening.

What type of Web site is being advertised？

A．A cooking site

B．An online store

C．An educational site

D．A business news site

听力原文：M: Do you want to go to that free lecture later？

W: Is it the one about American history？ That one will be really useful for me because my course covers that.

Q: What is the probable place of this conversation？

(16)

A．a university campus.

B．a book store.

C．a department store.

D．a police station.

really tough this semester.

W: Yes, it’s pretty hard work. I never seem to have any free time; I’m always in the library.

Q: Where is the probable place for this conversation？

(14)

A．In a restaurant.

B．On campus.

C．In the police station.

D．In the doctor's office.

听力原文：W: After dinner we can all go to the concert this evening.

M: Of course, if I am free.

What does the man mean？

A．He is not free after dinner.

B．He can go to the concert if he has time.

C．They can not go to concert together.

D．He will go to the concert.

听力原文：W: Hi, John.

M: Hi, Jenny.

W: One of the issues today is the digital divide. What does it mean？

M: It refers to the divide between who is online and who isn't.

W: What's the nature of the breakdown？ Who are they saying is online and who isn't？

M: They are looking at three principal portions of the American population with regard to the ethnic gap, the income gap and also different age groups.

W: What do they discover？

M: They find that today 30% of African Americans, 33% of Hispanic Americans, and 47% of White Americans, are online, but the largest portion of the American population are Asian Americans with 65% online.

W: Do they offer any explanations about why this might be？

M: Well, one reason of course is income. The low income population's use of the Internet is less, For example, for those who earn ＄75000 annually, over 70% have computers lined to the Internet.

W: Well, computers are still a fairly pricey item, although prices are coming down.

M: But they're predicting that within five years double the amount of people will be using them.

W: Going back, to this digital divide, do men and women use the Internet equally？ Is there a gender divide？

M: No. Not only is there not a gender divide but the prediction is this year more women will be online than men.

W: Really？

M: But the difference here is the sites they visit. Men are interested in financial and technology sites. Women tend to prefer sites dealing with more personal matters. For instance, they want to find out about women's health. So while both men and women are online, there is a difference in what they go online for.

W: Yeah. Interesting. What did the study say about the future growth？

M: Well, they're forecasting that three quarters of the country will be online within five years.

W: That's fast, isn't it？

M: Sure. We'd better get involved.

W: Right.

What is the main idea of the dialogue？

A．Income is the main factor that determines who are online and who are not.

B．The digital divide is determined by factors such as income, race and age.

C．More and more people in the United States will go online in the near future.

D．Both men and women are interested in going online but they visit different sites.

听力原文：M: How is school going, Barbara？ Are you taking any new classes？

W: I'm taking another really interesting course called Business and the Web. We are learning about e-commerce and how new technological developments will affect the way we buy, sell and market things in the future.

M: Wow, that sounds like something I should take.

W: I think it's one of the most useful courses I've had so far. Right now, we are studying wireless communications and how that's going to affect the development of the internet and eventually online business. We have had several lectures on the importance of cell phones and several new kinds of portable computers and other electronic devices which are based on related technologies.

M: What other kinds of topics will you be covering？

W: We are going to discuss high bandwidth Internet connections, like cable modems, which will allow us to exchange information more quickly. And from there, we will focus on how Internet, TV, radio and telephone technologies are all starting to come together.

M: I was just reading about that in the newspaper. But how does that relate to online business？

W: As these technologies converge in the near future, a new high-speed network will develop which will be perfect for the distribution of products and services online.

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A．E-commerce.

B．Wireless communications.

C．Business and the web.

D．New technology.