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READING PASSAGE 2
Read the passage carefully and answer the questions below.
PARAGRAPH 1: Amazon is one of the world's largest technology companies. It started out as an online bookstore in the middle of the 1990s and has grown steadily over the past decades.
PARAGRAPH 2: Today, Amazon sells almost everything, from CDs and DVDs to sportswear and electrical appliances. The company also produces its own tablets and e-readers and lets users upload their own photos and other files to the Amazon-based cloud.
PARAGRAPH 3: Amazon.com was founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994. It first operated out of a small garage in Washington state. Within a year Amazon offered hundreds of thousands of books. People could not only order books from an online catalogue but also write their own reviews. In 1997 Amazon.com started trading shares on the NASDAQ stock exchange. By 2000 it had made over a billion dollars in sales.
PARAGRAPH 4: As time went on Amazon.com gradually grew. It bought many of its rivals and today cooperates with other companies and lets them sell their products via the Amazon website.
PARAGRAPH 5: In 2007 Amazon went a step further. It surprised the electronics world with a Next
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