Google Works Miracles

　　GOOGLE(www．Google．com)is a daily miracle to millions of people．If the Internee had only this very fast search engine,it would have just its existence many times over．It is the most popular search engine on the web with a 54％market share．a(chǎn)head 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 Become Giant

　　YAHOO(www．yahoo．com)was the first wonder often web．a(chǎn)nd 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 the Yahoo we know today．In the past seven years．Yahoo has grown rapidly, partly through a long siring 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 call bid(投標(biāo))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(測(cè)覽)through listed items that is available online seven days a week．

　　Amagoll Makes Buying-New Experience

　　Amazon(www．a(chǎn)mazon．com)started out as an online bookstore．constantly putting up new book rifles it offered for sale．In the late 1990s．Amazon had more rialto 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 was not built in one day, but Yahoo was 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 do the searching．

C．

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

D．

EBay Company's online service is a1ways there for its users．

答案：1．B;2．A;3．B;4．D;
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