Task 1. Here's the full introduction from the BITS article "Rent Anything … From the Family Down the Street" by Brad Stone (February 11, 2008). Guess about the missing words.
You can rent a car online. But how about a power drill? Or a disco globe? Or your neighbor’s pool-cleaning equipment?
Another idea from the first dot-com boom — rent …………………….. (tsmie) from your neighbors — is making a ……………………………. (bomcecka)
………………… (bcka) in 2000, at least one well-financed Web start-up, rentanything.com, tried getting Internet users to rent, or list for rent, items not normally associated with the ……………………………... (ntarlse tarmek) The company ……………………. (diares) $3 million from venture capitalists and then ………………….. (dizzlef) — there is no record of it on the Internet Archive after 2003.
Now, at least four companies have started in the last few months to try the concept again. iRent2u, based in Los Angeles, Zilok in France, eRento in Germany and HireThings, based in New Zealand, all want to be the ………………………….. (eyaB) for online rentals. Another company, Rentmineonline, based in Britain, is focusing specifically on the real estate market and has introduced a Facebook application.
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kisdobos 2008.02.26. 13:50:00
1. items
2. comeback
3. back
4. rentals market
5. raised
6. fizzled
7. eBay
You can rent a car online. But how about a power drill? Or a disco globe? Or your neighbor’s pool-cleaning equipment?
Another idea from the first dot-com boom — rent items from your neighbors — is making a comeback.
Back in 2000, at least one well-financed Web start-up, rentanything.com, tried getting Internet users to rent, or list for rent, items not normally associated with the rentals market. The company raised $3 million from venture capitalists and then fizzled — there is no record of it on the Internet Archive after 2003.
Now, at least four companies have started in the last few months to try the concept again. iRent2u, based in Los Angeles, Zilok in France, eRento in Germany and HireThings, based in New Zealand, all want to be the eBay for online rentals. Another company, Rentmineonline, based in Britain, is focusing specifically on the real estate market and has introduced a Facebook application.