题目内容
Before Microsoft came along,there really was no software industry~just a few companies selling very highpriced software only to companies,big companies. The idea of lowcost software that would be empowering (赋予.... 权力) for individuals and that there could be literally around the world hundreds of thousands of these successful companies―that was part of the Microsoft dream. And in fact,the software industry is 10 ,000 times bigger because of the work we do. Microsoft has a uniform platform that has gotten out to go around the world. And so in every country we've helped companies grow up,create jobs,pay taxes around the software world. The main competitors who don't like us are actually hardware companies who have been used to charging very high prices for the hardware and the PCs changed that.
It's hard to think of a business that's had a more positive effect for customers than the PC business. The rate of product improvement provides its ability to create and stay in touch. You know the closest comparison is when publishing came along and people had books. Of course books created a problem. You know,the people wanted to control things didn't like books;the people who wanted to sell highpriced hand written things didn't like the printing press. But actually it was something that people knew really that it was very positive. The same thing's happened with the P C. There's no company that in terms of our work has gotten as positive feedback and has gotten as broad a set of users. Those users are always telling us what they'd like to see us make better,and that's partly why it's a fun business because we get to make new versions of the software all the time.
Well,the vision of Microsoft is about information as you want it,any time,anywhere,any place. And this is an overall strategy about making it easier to write software,easier to share data,revolutionizing user interface with the speech and handwriting. And making reading off the computer as good or better than paper and so today we will see that the horizons for software will let us get so much more than even what we have now.
( ) 5. How did Microsoft change the software industry?
A. By selling highpriced software to the big companies.
B. By offering free classes on computer to individuals.
C. By selling all kinds of software to single person directly.
D. By making a competition with the hardware companies.
( ) 6. Which of the following is NOT the Microsoft dream?
A. Producing more and more lowpriced software.
B. Paying more attention to some big companies.
C. Making the computer easier for ordinary people to use.
D. Reading on the computer better than paper.
( ) 7. Why did the writer offer the example of books in Paragraph 2?
A. To show the great effect of the PC business.
B. To show the development of science.
C. To show the problem the books created.
D. To foretell the computer will take the place of the book.
( ) 8. What's the writer's attitude towards the future of Microsoft?
A. Positive. B. Suspicious. C. Negative. D. Critical.
( ) 9. What will the following part of the passage be about?
A. The developments on PC in the future.
B. The ways to sell software in the world.
C. The history of software in America.
D. The strategy about writing software.
5. C从文章的第1段可知,微软是面向个人,以低价出售软件。
6. B从文中微软的销售策略可知B项不是微软公司的梦想。
7. A举出版书的例子是为了印证个人电脑对社会的影响。
8. A作者对微软事业的态度是积极和支持的。
9. A从最后一句话可知,微软会让我们得到比现在更多的东西,所以,下一段会描述数码世界的未来,BP电脑会为我们做些什么。