判断下列说法是否正确，对的在括号内打“√”，错的打“×”。
（1）爸爸打“我”并且逼“我”去上学是因为爸爸认为家庭的振兴要靠“我”将来谋得一个好的职业来实现，所以“我”从小就要学好知识。（ ）
（2）“只记得，从那以后，到今天，每天早晨我都是等待着校工开大铁栅栏校门的学生之一。”这一句概写爸爸的责罚对“我”产生的影响：使“我”在以后的生活中能始终严格要求自己。（ ）
（3）“他为了叔叔给日本人害死的事，急得吐血了”，看似不经意的一笔，却写出了日本帝国主义的侵略给这个家庭带来的深重灾难。（ ）
（4）“我好像怕赶不上什么事情似的”是一个比喻句，形象地写出“我”急于回家的心情。（ ）
（1）×
（2）√
（3）√
（4）×
Passage Two
| In 1998 consumers could purchase virtually anything over the Internet. Books, compact discs, and even stocks were available from World Wide Web sites that seemed to spring up almost daily. A few years earlier, some people had predicted that consumers accustomed to shopping in stores would be reluctant to buy things that they could not see or touch in person. For a growing number of time-starved consumers, however, shopping from their home computer was proving to be a convenient alternative to driving to the store. A research estimated that in 1998 U.S. consumers would purchase ＄ 7.3 billion of goods over the Internet, double the 1997 total. Finding a bargain was getting easier, owing to the rise of online auctions and Web sites that did comparison shopping on the Internet for the best deal. For all the consumer interest, retailing in cyberspace was still a largely unprofitable business, however. Internet pioneer Amazon. com, which began selling books in 1995 and later branched into recorded music and videos, posted revenue of $153.7 million in the third quarter, up from ＄ 37.9 million in the same period of 1997．Overall, however, the company’s loss widened to ＄ 45.2 million from $ 9.6 million, and analysts did not expect the company to turn a profit until 2003．Despite the great loss, Amazon com had a stock market value of many billions, reflecting investors’ optimism about the future of the industry. Internet retailing appealed to investors because it provided an efficient means for reaching millions of consumers without having the cost of operating conventional stores with their armies of salespeople. Selling online carried its own risks, however. With so many companies competing for consumers’ attention, price competition was intense and profit margins thin or nonexistent. One video retailer sold the hit movie Titanic for ＄ 9.99, undercutting (削价) the ＄19.99 suggested retail price and losing about ＄ 6 on each copy sold．With Internet retailing still in its initial stage, companies seemed willing to absorb such losses in an attempt to establish a dominant market position. |
Which of the following is true, according to the writer
A．Consumers are reluctant to buy things on the Internet.
B．Consumers are too busy to buy things on the Internet.
C．More and more consumers prefer Internet shopping.
D．Internet retailing is a profitable business.