Passage 9 Ecommerce _____1______ Alibaba broke records with sales of $14.3 billion on China’s Singles’ Day.It is the largest online shopping day in the world.Online sales from last year ______2______ 60 percent, according to Alibaba. Most people shopped on mobile _____3______, said the firm. China Singles’ Day takes place November 11, or 11.11 each year. Alibaba ______4______ it as a shopping day in 2009. There are steep ______5_______ and other promotions designed to attract online customers.Singles’ Day quickly became a ______6_____ sensation. China Singles’ Day “has now become larger than both Cyber Monday and Black Friday combined,” the two biggest shopping days in the U.S., reported NBC News. Kitty Fok is China manager for market research from IDC. She told the BBC that online shopping had become a comfortable ____7______ for most consumers. The company is focusing on international e-commerce for future Singles’ Days, reported Reuters. “Within the next five years, we expect China will become the world’s largest e-commerce market for ___8______ products,” President Michael Evans told reporters on Wednesday. Alibaba Chief Executive Daniel Zhang said in a statement that Singles’ Day would mean that “the whole world will _____9_____ the power of Chinese _____10_____.”