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Four Wonders of the Web

Google Works Miracles

  GOOGLE (www. google. torn) is a daily miracle to millions of people. If the Internet had only this very fast search engine, it would have justified its existence many times over. It is the most popular search engine on the web with a 54% market share, ahead of Ya-hoo! You type almost anything, however un-clear, into the space provided and in a second it has come up with hundreds of references. If knowledge is power, then Google commands the gateway.

Yahoo Becomes Giant

  YAHOO (www. yahoo, com) was the first wonder of the web, and in many re-spects, it still is. It started in January 1994 when two California graduate students, Jerry Yang and David Filo, started compiling (编 译) a database of links, mainly for their per-sonal use. But well before the end of the year, it had become recognizable as Yahoo we know today. In the past seven years, Yahoo had grown rapidly, partly through a long string of buy. Yahoo now offers almost eve-rything you could want: e-mails, instant mes-sages, chats, clubs, photo albums and a lot more.

eBay Enables Everyone to Buy and Sell

  eBAY (www. ebay. com), which deals with online trading and shopping services, is the most impressive large Internet company where people buy and sell goods and services worldwide. It has, for instance, opened up a global marketplace in which people from Bei-jing, San Francisco, or Moscow can bid (投 标) against each other for products put up for sale by someone in London. The company's online service permits sellers to list items for sale, buyers to bid on items of interest, and eBay users to browse (浏览) through listed items that is available online seven days a week.

Amazon Makes Buying a New Experience

  Amazon (www. amazon. com) started out as an online bookstore, constantly putting up new book . titles it offered for sale. In the late 1990s, Amazon had more than four mil-lion titles after adding CDs, videos, DVDs and games. It continued to add new lines of busi-ness including toys, computer software, elec-tronics, like MP3 players, power tools, home improvement products and online sales. For regular users, Amazon has made itself the shortest possible path between wanting and buying.

(1) What is Google used mainly for?

[  ]

A.Commanding the gateway.

B.Searching for information.

C.Storing reference books.

D.Providing extra space.

(2) “Rome is not built in one day. ” but Yahoo is built in one________.

[  ]

A.year
B.day
C.month
D.minute

(3) What goods did Amazon sell when it star-ted its business?

[  ]

A.Videos and games.

B.Different books.

C.Power tools.

D.MP3 players.

(4) Which of the following is true?

[  ]

A.Buying and selling can only be done through Amazon.

B.If you feed in something unclear, Google will refuse to do the searching.

C.Yahoo owns more market shares than any other company on the web.

D.eBay Company's online service is al-ways there for its users.

答案:B;A;B;D
解析:

(1) 细节理解题。根据文章第一部分可知Google是一个搜索引擎,再结合本段最后一句,可知它是用来搜索信息的。

(2) 细节理解题。根据文章第二部分中第二、 三句话可知Yahoo是用了近一年的时间建成现有规模的。

(3) 细节理解题。根据文章第四部分第一句话可知B正确。

(4) 细节推断题。根据文章第三部分最后一句话可知D正确。


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Four Wonders of the Web

Google Works Miracles

  GOOGLE(www.google.com)is a daily miracle to millions of people.If the Internet had only this very fast search engine, it would have justified its existence many times over.It is the most popular search engine on the web with a 54% market share, ahead of Yahoo! You type almost anything, however unclear, into the space provided and in a second it has come up with hundreds of references.If knowledge is power, then Google commands the gateway.

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  eBAY(www.ebay.com), which deals with online trading and shopping services, is the most impressive large Internet company where people buy and sell goods and services worldwide.It has, for instance, opened up a global marketplace in which people from Beijing, San Francisco, or Moscow can bid(投标)against each other for products put up for sale by someone in London.The company's online service permits sellers to list items for sale,buyers to bid on items of interest, and eBay users to browse(浏览)through listed items that is available online seven days a week.

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What is Google used mainly for?

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A.

Commanding the gateway.

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Searching for information.

C.

Storing reference books.

D.

Providing extra space.

(2)

“Rome is not built in one day” but Yahoo is built in one ________.

[  ]

A.

year

B.

day

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month

D.

minute

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What goods did Amazon sell when it started its business?

[  ]

A.

Videos and games.

B.

Different books.

C.

Power tools.

D.

MP3 players.

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[  ]

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Buying and selling can only be done through Amazon.

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       C.Yahoo owns more market shares than any other companies on the web.

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