They say China's growth, though slower, is still very robust(强劲有力的) compared to the world's ______ economies.

The report showed that 22% of Taobao customers in small towns used mobile application ______ online. But the percentage declined to 17% in first- and second-tier cities.

Passage 1It's a goal for millions of families every year to keep the Christmas spending within certair amount of money, but you can still afford the gifts because your loved ones will enjoy them. This concem is becoming greater and greater these days. Even so, there are several things that you can do to help.Hit the sales. No one wants to get up at four o'clock in the moming and fight to get good deals on Black Friday (the first Friday at Christmas time). It's surely very difficult to pick up the courage and get out there in the cold for a gold deal. But sometimes it can be well worth it. Many retailers offer 【specials】 all through the day. Some even offer online Black Friday specials, so we may still be able to get a great deal on Black Friday.Read advertisements regularly. Once the Christmas shopping season is coming, retailers will be hungry for business. They will try their best to get us into the store. Please read the weekly advertisements of sales among the major retailers from time to time. We may be lucky enough to find different prices for the same thing in different shops.Shop online. Some of us don't' like running from store to store to get the best price on the perfect gift. Some of us don't like to go out in the cold at all, and then, we can do online shopping.The world of online shopping makes it possible for us to visit all the major retailers and specialty store on the Intemet. We can find exactly what we are looking for at the best possible price without even having to leave the house. With traditional Christmas shopping, it will always take us a long time to wait if we want to get the perfect gift.11.The underlined word"specials" in Paragraph 2 means ______.

Passage 1It's a goal for millions of families every year to keep the Christmas spending within certair amount of money, but you can still afford the gifts because your loved ones will enjoy them. This concem is becoming greater and greater these days. Even so, there are several things that you can do to help.Hit the sales. No one wants to get up at four o'clock in the moming and fight to get good deals on Black Friday (the first Friday at Christmas time). It's surely very difficult to pick up the courage and get out there in the cold for a gold deal. But sometimes it can be well worth it. Many retailers offer 【specials】 all through the day. Some even offer online Black Friday specials, so we may still be able to get a great deal on Black Friday.Read advertisements regularly. Once the Christmas shopping season is coming, retailers will be hungry for business. They will try their best to get us into the store. Please read the weekly advertisements of sales among the major retailers from time to time. We may be lucky enough to find different prices for the same thing in different shops.Shop online. Some of us don't' like running from store to store to get the best price on the perfect gift. Some of us don't like to go out in the cold at all, and then, we can do online shopping.The world of online shopping makes it possible for us to visit all the major retailers and specialty store on the Intemet. We can find exactly what we are looking for at the best possible price without even having to leave the house. With traditional Christmas shopping, it will always take us a long time to wait if we want to get the perfect gift.12.We can have more choices to get a good deal ______.

Passage 1It's a goal for millions of families every year to keep the Christmas spending within certair amount of money, but you can still afford the gifts because your loved ones will enjoy them. This concem is becoming greater and greater these days. Even so, there are several things that you can do to help.Hit the sales. No one wants to get up at four o'clock in the moming and fight to get good deals on Black Friday (the first Friday at Christmas time). It's surely very difficult to pick up the courage and get out there in the cold for a gold deal. But sometimes it can be well worth it. Many retailers offer 【specials】 all through the day. Some even offer online Black Friday specials, so we may still be able to get a great deal on Black Friday.Read advertisements regularly. Once the Christmas shopping season is coming, retailers will be hungry for business. They will try their best to get us into the store. Please read the weekly advertisements of sales among the major retailers from time to time. We may be lucky enough to find different prices for the same thing in different shops.Shop online. Some of us don't' like running from store to store to get the best price on the perfect gift. Some of us don't like to go out in the cold at all, and then, we can do online shopping.The world of online shopping makes it possible for us to visit all the major retailers and specialty store on the Intemet. We can find exactly what we are looking for at the best possible price without even having to leave the house. With traditional Christmas shopping, it will always take us a long time to wait if we want to get the perfect gift.13.In the passage the writer wants to ______.

Passage 1It's a goal for millions of families every year to keep the Christmas spending within certair amount of money, but you can still afford the gifts because your loved ones will enjoy them. This concem is becoming greater and greater these days. Even so, there are several things that you can do to help.Hit the sales. No one wants to get up at four o'clock in the moming and fight to get good deals on Black Friday (the first Friday at Christmas time). It's surely very difficult to pick up the courage and get out there in the cold for a gold deal. But sometimes it can be well worth it. Many retailers offer 【specials】 all through the day. Some even offer online Black Friday specials, so we may still be able to get a great deal on Black Friday.Read advertisements regularly. Once the Christmas shopping season is coming, retailers will be hungry for business. They will try their best to get us into the store. Please read the weekly advertisements of sales among the major retailers from time to time. We may be lucky enough to find different prices for the same thing in different shops.Shop online. Some of us don't' like running from store to store to get the best price on the perfect gift. Some of us don't like to go out in the cold at all, and then, we can do online shopping.The world of online shopping makes it possible for us to visit all the major retailers and specialty store on the Intemet. We can find exactly what we are looking for at the best possible price without even having to leave the house. With traditional Christmas shopping, it will always take us a long time to wait if we want to get the perfect gift.14.From the passage we ean infer(推断)that ______.

Passage 2Searching by keywords is the most common method of using a search engine, but the problems with keywords are the relatively imprecise results and the retum of a lot of irrelevant information Keywords may have more than one meaning and search results may be found only by using a synonym of, the keyword. The method of browsing on the other hand takes too much to find the relevant information. Directories like Yahoo try to 【circumvent】 the problem, but the manual process of classifying material on the Web takes up too much time, resulting in very few search results.Therefore new paradigms of searching are needed as well as new software that is able to categorize Web sites automatically.The majority of search engines come from the United States and have specialized in English resources and information reflecting the American culture. People who do not speak English or who are non-native speakers have therefore many disadvantages on the Web. The centralized approach to retrieval has extreme difficulty in coping with the multilingual and multicultural nature of the information society. The Intemet has become success throughout the world, but the American search engines operate with a US-centric company structure and tend to concentrate upon the English language. Although many search engines have subsidiaries in many other countries, like Japan or Italy, the way the information is presented is the American way and may not reflect the logie of the people who are using it.15.A major problem of keyword searching is ______.

Passage 2Searching by keywords is the most common method of using a search engine, but the problems with keywords are the relatively imprecise results and the retum of a lot of irrelevant information Keywords may have more than one meaning and search results may be found only by using a synonym of, the keyword. The method of browsing on the other hand takes too much to find the relevant information. Directories like Yahoo try to 【circumvent】 the problem, but the manual process of classifying material on the Web takes up too much time, resulting in very few search results.Therefore new paradigms of searching are needed as well as new software that is able to categorize Web sites automatically.The majority of search engines come from the United States and have specialized in English resources and information reflecting the American culture. People who do not speak English or who are non-native speakers have therefore many disadvantages on the Web. The centralized approach to retrieval has extreme difficulty in coping with the multilingual and multicultural nature of the information society. The Intemet has become success throughout the world, but the American search engines operate with a US-centric company structure and tend to concentrate upon the English language. Although many search engines have subsidiaries in many other countries, like Japan or Italy, the way the information is presented is the American way and may not reflect the logie of the people who are using it.16.The underlined word "circumvent" in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to ______.

Passage 2Searching by keywords is the most common method of using a search engine, but the problems with keywords are the relatively imprecise results and the retum of a lot of irrelevant information Keywords may have more than one meaning and search results may be found only by using a synonym of, the keyword. The method of browsing on the other hand takes too much to find the relevant information. Directories like Yahoo try to 【circumvent】 the problem, but the manual process of classifying material on the Web takes up too much time, resulting in very few search results.Therefore new paradigms of searching are needed as well as new software that is able to categorize Web sites automatically.The majority of search engines come from the United States and have specialized in English resources and information reflecting the American culture. People who do not speak English or who are non-native speakers have therefore many disadvantages on the Web. The centralized approach to retrieval has extreme difficulty in coping with the multilingual and multicultural nature of the information society. The Intemet has become success throughout the world, but the American search engines operate with a US-centric company structure and tend to concentrate upon the English language. Although many search engines have subsidiaries in many other countries, like Japan or Italy, the way the information is presented is the American way and may not reflect the logie of the people who are using it.17.Why do non-native English speakers have many disadvantages on the Web?

Passage 2Searching by keywords is the most common method of using a search engine, but the problems with keywords are the relatively imprecise results and the retum of a lot of irrelevant information Keywords may have more than one meaning and search results may be found only by using a synonym of, the keyword. The method of browsing on the other hand takes too much to find the relevant information. Directories like Yahoo try to 【circumvent】 the problem, but the manual process of classifying material on the Web takes up too much time, resulting in very few search results.Therefore new paradigms of searching are needed as well as new software that is able to categorize Web sites automatically.The majority of search engines come from the United States and have specialized in English resources and information reflecting the American culture. People who do not speak English or who are non-native speakers have therefore many disadvantages on the Web. The centralized approach to retrieval has extreme difficulty in coping with the multilingual and multicultural nature of the information society. The Intemet has become success throughout the world, but the American search engines operate with a US-centric company structure and tend to concentrate upon the English language. Although many search engines have subsidiaries in many other countries, like Japan or Italy, the way the information is presented is the American way and may not reflect the logie of the people who are using it.18.Although search engines have their branches in many other countries, the American way of information presentation and their logic are still ______.