题目内容
Computer network facilities are badly needed in the countryside.
解析:
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农村十分需要计算机网络设备。 |
“Indeed”George Washington wrote in his diary in 1785, “some kind of fly,or bug,had begun to eat the leaves before I left home.” But the father of America was not the father of bug.When Washington wrote that, Englishmen had been referring to insects as bugs for more than a century, and Americans had already created lightning-bug(萤火虫). But the Enlish were soon to stop using the bugs in their language, leaving it to be the Americans to call a bug a bug in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The American bug could also be a person, referring to someone who was crazy about a particular activity.Although fan became the usual term, sports fans used to be called racing bugs, baseball bugs and the like.
Or the bug could be a small machine or object, for example, a bug-shaped car. The bug could also be a burlar alarm, from which comes the expression to bug, that is, “to install(安装) an alarm”. Now it means a small piece of equipment that people use for listening secretly to others’ conversations.Since the 1840s,to bug has long meant “to cheat”,and since the 1994s it has been annoying.
We also know the bug as a flaw n a computer program or other design.That meaning dates back to the time of Tomas Edison.In 1878 he explained bugs as “little problems and difficulties” that required months of stdy and labor to overcome in developing a successful product. In 1889 it was recorded that Edison “had been up the two previous nights discovering′a bug′ in his invented record player.”
【小题1】We learn from Paragraph 1 that .
| A.American had difficulty in learning to use the word “bug”. |
| B.George Washinton was the first person to call the insect a bug. |
| C.the word bug was still popularly used in England in the nineteenth century. |
| D.both the Englishmen and Americans used the word bug in the gighteen century. |
| A.Explanation. |
| B.Finding. |
| C.Origin. |
| D.Fault. |
| A.the misunderstanding of thr word bug |
| B.the deveopment of the word bug |
| C.the public views of the word bug |
| D.the special characteristics of the word bug |
Fourteen is not an age at which you try to earn millions of dollars. But for Bangalore boy, Suhas Gopinath, it was.
One day in August, 1999, Suhas, studying at the Air Force School in Hebbal, was surfing the Net at a cyber cafe. He happened to hit an MSN source code (源码). That made him decide to learn more about HTML (超文本标记语言) and to design and set up his own website under the address of a US-based company, Network Solutions.
He kept updating his website, posting interesting things on it. This impressed Network Solutions and they invited him to attend a class on Web design and development. His mom and uncle criticised him for not taking his education seriously. But gradually, his dad started encouraging him and even bought him a computer and Net connection. In fact, that was his first investment in the company.
On May 14, 2000, along with friends Clifford Leslie and Binay M. N, he floated (筹资开办) his own website — www.coolhindustani.com. He did not have the money to start, for his parents refused to give him a penny. So he wrote to Network Solutions Inc. in the US and they readily agreed.
In August, the same year, he set up Globals Inc., a Web solutions and networking company, with a team of four. Now, he has 400 employees, more than 200 customers across the globe and offices in 11 countries, and he is worth over $100 million.
After finishing his high school education, he studied at Stanford University for two years. But Suhas says: “Education alone will not make a good professional (专业人员).”
【小题1】When Suhas Gopinath was praised by Network Solutions, his mother ______.
| A.felt proud of his success |
| B.forbade him to enter a cyber cafe |
| C.worried about his studies |
| D.wanted to buy him a computer |
| A.his parents | B.an American company |
| C.his uncle | D.Stanford University |
a. Suhas was invited by Network Solutions to attend a class.
b. Suhas set up his first website.
c. Suhas set up Globals Inc.
d. Suhas went abroad for further education.
| A.a-c-b-d | B.b-a-d-c | C.a-b-c-d | D.b-a-c-d |
| A.It is a world-class company. |
| B.It is owned by Suhas and his two friends. |
| C.It is a branch of Network Solutions. |
| D.It earns about 100 million dollars each year. |