2007年6月23日英语六级考试题卷及答案

            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 when even-thing
            around 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 no
            one was paying. 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