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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．

Yahoo Becomes Giant

　　YAHOO(www．yahoo．com)was the first wonder of the web, and in many respects, it still is．It started in January 1994 when two California graduate students, Jerry Yang and David Filo, started compiling(編譯)a database of links, mainly for their personal 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 buys．Yahoo now offers almost everything you could want：emails, instant messages, 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 Beijing, San Francisco, or Moscow can bid(投標)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(瀏覽)through listed items that is available online seven days a week．

Amazon Makes Buying a New Experience

　　Amazon(www．a(chǎn)mazon．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 million titles after adding CDs, videos, DVDs and games．It continued to add new lines of business including toys, computer software, electronics, 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 started 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 companies on the web．

D．

eBay Company's online service is always there for its users．

答案：1．B;2．A;3．B;4．D;
解析：

(1)

考查細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第一個標題內(nèi)容的中間部分“It is the most popular search engine on the web…”可知它的主要功能是搜索信息。根據(jù)本段最后一句可知A項只是一個形象的比喻，因此不能選。

(2)

考查細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第二個標題內(nèi)容的第二句的前半句可知是1994年元月份創(chuàng)辦的，再結合第三句的前半句可知它僅用了“一年”的時間就風靡全球。

(3)

考查細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)本段的開頭一句可知Amazon以在線書店起步。

(4)

　　解析：考查細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第三個標題內(nèi)容的最后可知易趣網(wǎng)每天都提供在線服務。C項在文中沒有信息支持。

　　文章大意：網(wǎng)絡開創(chuàng)了一個新時代，也創(chuàng)造了無數(shù)奇跡。谷歌、雅虎、易趣、亞馬遜演繹著一個又一個商業(yè)傳奇。


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