Reading Comprehension

eBay

Where can you buy a football kicked by David Beckham or an old Learjet?

On eBay, of course -the world's first global online marketplace. The football sold for $18,500, and someone paid $4.9 million for the jet! Every day on eBay, there are 34 million things for sale, and 125 buyers and sellers. You can buy everything -stamps, jewellery, art, clothing, old cars and anything strange and interesting. All you need is a computer and a little time.

Pierre Omidyar, a French-Iranian computer scientist, invented eBay in California in 1995. He wanted to create a website for everybody to buy and sell things, not just big businesses. He started the website as a hobby, but now it is the biggest business in the world!

Are the following sentences true or false?  Correct the false ones.

1. David Beckham's Learjet was sold for $18,500.

2. There are 34 million things for sale every week.

3. There are 125 million buyers.

4. You can buy rings through eBay.

5. eBay was invented in the USA.

6. eBay was invented before the year 2000.

7. Pierre Omidyar invented eBay for big businesses.