What is Bay? The simpleanswer is that it is a global trading platform. where nearly anyone can tradepractically anything. People can sell and buy all kinds of products and goods.Including cars, movies and DVDs, sporting goods, travel tickets, musicalinstruments, clothes and shoes- the list goes on and on The idea came from PeterOmidyar, who was born in Paris and moved to Washington when he was still achild, At high school, be became very interested in computer programming andafter graduating from Tuft University in 1988, He worked for the next few yearsas a computer engineer. In his free time he started Bay as a kind of hobby, atfirst offering the service free by word of mouth. By 1996 there was so muchtraffic on the website that he had to upgrade （升级） and he began charging a feeto members. Joined by a friend, Peter Skill. and in 1998 by his capable CEO,Meg Whitman, he has never looked back. . Even in the great. com crashes of thelate 1990s,abay has gone from strength to strength ,. It is now one of the tenmost visited online shopping websites on the Internet eBay sells connections, notgoods, putting buyer and seller into contact with each other. All you have todo is lake an e-photo, write a description, fill out a sales form. and you arein business: the world is your market place. Of course for each item （商品） sold eBay gets apercentage and that is great deal of money. Every day there are more thansixteen million items listed on eBay and eighty percent of the items are sold 60. We learn fromthe text that eBay provides people with__ A. a way of buying andselling goods B. a website for them toupgrade C. a place to exhibit theirown photos D. a chance to buy things atlow prices 61. Why did Petercreate eBay after graduating from university? A. For fun B. To make money C. For gathering theengineers D. To fulfill a task of his company 62. From “he hasnever looked back “in Paragraph 2 we learn that peter_ A. did not feel lonely B. was always hopeful C. did not think about thepast D. became more and moresuccessful 63. How does eBaymake money from its website7? A. By bringing callerstogether. B. By charging for each sale C. By listing items online D. By making e-photos.