Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)
section A
Questions 47 to 51 arc based on the following passage. Google is a world-famous company, with its, headquarters in Mountain View, California. It was set up in a Silicon Valley garage in 1998. and inflated(膨胀) with the Interact bubble. Even it collapsed the company kept on inflating. Google's search engine is so widespread across the world thai search became Google, and google became a verb. The world fell in love with the effective, fascinatingly fast technology, Google owes much of its success to the brilliance of S. Brin and L Pace, but also to a series of fortunate events. It was Page who. At Stanford in 1996, initiated the academic project that eventually became Google's search engine. Brin. Who had met Page at a studem orientation a year earlier. Joined the project early on. They were both Ph.D. candidates when thej devised the search engine which was better than the rest and. Without any marketing, spread by word of mouth from cartv adopters to. Eventually, your grandmother. Their breakthrough, simply put. Was that when their search engine crawled the Web. It did more than just look for word matches: it also tallied (统计) 2nd ranked c host of other critical factors like how websites link to one another. That delivered far better results than anything else. Brin and Page meant to name their creation Googol (the mathematical term for the number I followed bv 100 zeroes), but someone misspelled the word so it stuck as Google. They raised money from prescient (有先见之明的)professors and venture capitalists and moved off campus to turn Google into a business. Perhaps their biggest stroke of luck came early on when they tried to sell their technology to other search engines, but no one met their price, and they built it up on their own. The next breakthrough came in 2000. when Google figured out how to make money with its invention. It had lots of users, but almost . The solution turned out to be advertising, and it's not an exaggeration to say that Google is now essential!} an advertising company, given that that's the source of nearly all its revenue. Today it is a giant advertising company, worth $ 100 billion.
47. Apart from a series of fortunate evems. What is it that has made Google so successful? 48. Google's search engine originated from________ started by L. Page. 49. How did Google's search engine spread all over the world? 50. Brin and Page decided to set up their own business because no one would 51. The revenue of the Google company is largely generated from____
答案 47. The brilliance of S. Brin and L. Page 48. the academic project 49. By word of mouth 50. meet their price 51. advertising
it collapsed the company kept on inflating. Google's search engine is so widespread across the world thai search became Google, and google became a verb. The world fell in love with the effective, fascinatingly fast technology,
. The solution turned out to be advertising, and it's not an exaggeration to say that Google is now essential!} an advertising company, given that that's the source of nearly all its revenue. Today it is a giant advertising company, worth $ 100 billion.
