英语六级阅读填空历年真题0712.docx

1、英语六级阅读填空历年真题071207年6月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 Internet bubble. Even when everything around it collapsed the company kept on inflating. Googles search engine is so

2、 widespread across the world that 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. Page, but also to a series of fortunate events. It was Page who, at Stanford

3、in 1996, initiated the academic project that eventually became Googles search engine. Brin, who had met Page at a student orientation a year earlier, joined the project early on. They were both Ph.D. candidates when they devised the search engine which was better than the rest and, without any marke

4、ting, spread by word of mouth from early 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) and ranked a host of other critical factors like how websites link t

5、o 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 1 followed by 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 vent

6、ure capitalists, and moved off campus to turn Google into 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 figur

7、ed 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 its not an exaggeration to say that Google is now essentially an advertising company, given that thats the source of nearly all its revenue. Today it is a g

8、iant advertising company, worth $100 billion.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。47. Apart from a series of fortunate events, what is it that has made Google so successful?48. Googles search engine originated from _ started by L. Page.49. How did Googles search engine spread all over the world?50. Brin and Page decid

9、ed to set up their own business because no one would _.51. The revenue of the Google company is largely generated from _.07年12月Men, these days, are embracing fatherhood with the round-the-clock involvement their partners have always dreamed of handling night feedings, packing lunches and bandaging k

10、nees. But unlike women, many find theyre negotiating their new roles with little support or information. “Men in my generation (aged 25-40) have a fear of becoming dads because we have no role models,” says Jon Smith, a writer. They often find themselves excluded from mothers support networks, and a

11、re eyed warily (警觉地) on the playground.The challenge is particularly evident in the work-place. There, men are still expected to be breadwinners climbing the corporate ladder: traditionally-minded bosses are often unsympathetic to family needs. In Denmark most new fathers only take two weeks of pate

12、rnity leave (父亲的陪产假) even though they are allowed 34 days. As much as if not more so than women, fathers struggle to be taken seriously when they request flexible arrangements.Though Wilfried-Fritz Maring, 54, a data-bank and Internet specialist with German firm FIZ Karlsruhe, feels that the time he

13、 spends with his daughter outweighs any disadvantages, he admits, “With my decision to work from home I dismissed any opportunity for promotion.”Mind-sets (思维定势) are changing gradually. When Maring had a daughter, the company equipped him with a home office and allowed him to choose a job that could

14、 be performed from there. Danish telecom company TDC initiated an internal campaign last year to encourage dads to take paternity leave: 97 percent now do. “When an employee goes on paternity leave and is with his kids, he gets a new kind of training: in how to keep cool under stress.” says spokespe

15、rson Christine Elberg Holm. For a new generation of dads, kids may come before the company but its a shift that benefits both.47. Unlike women, men often get little support or information from .48. Besides supporting the family, men were also expected to .49. Like women, men hope that their desire f

16、or a flexible schedule will be .50. When Maring was on paternity leave, he was allowed by his company to work . 51. Christine Holm believes paternity leave provides a new kind of training for men in that it can help them cope with .08年6月If movie trailers(预告片)are supposed to cause a reaction, the pre

17、view for United 93 more than succeeds. Featuring no famous actors, it begins with images of a beautiful morning and passengers boarding an airplane. It takes you a minute to realize what the movies even about. Thats when a plane hits the World Trade Center. the effect is visceral(震撼心灵的). When the tr

18、ailer played before Inside Man last week at a Hollywood theater, audience members began calling out, Too soon! In New York City, the response was even more dramatic. The Loews theater in Manhattan took the rare step of pulling the trailer from its screens after several complaints.United 93 is the fi

19、rst feature film to deal explicitly with the events of September 11, 2001, and is certain to ignite an emotional debate. Is it too soon? Should the film have been made at all? More to the point, will anyone want to see it? Other 9/11 projects are on the way as the fifth anniversary of the attacks ap

20、proaches, most notably Oliver Stones World Trade Center. but as the forerunner, United 93will take most of the heat, whether it deserves it or not.The real United 93 crashed in a Pennsylvania field after 40 passengers and crew fought back against the terrorists. Writer-director Paul Greengrass has g

21、one to great lengths to be respectful in his depiction of what occurred, proceeding with the film only after securing the approval of every victims family. Was I surprised at the agreement? Yes. Very. Usually therere one or two families whore more reluctant, Greengrass writes in an e-mail. I was sur

22、prised at the extraordinary way the United 93 families have welcomed us into their lives and shared their experiences with us. Carole OHare, a family member, says, They were very open and honest with us, and they made us a part of this whole project. Universal, which is releasing the film, plans to

23、donate 10% of its opening weekend gross to the Flight 93 National Memorial Fund. That hasnt stopped criticism that the studio is exploiting a national tragedy. OHare thinks thats unfair. This story has to be told to honor the passengers and crew for what they did, she says. But more than that, it ra

24、ises awareness. Our ports arent secure. Our borders arent secure. Our airlines still arent secure, and this is what happens when youre not secure. Thats the message I want people to hear.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答47. The trailer for United 93 succeeded in _ when it played in the theaters in Hollywood and New

25、 York City.48. The movie United 93 is sure to give rise to _.49. What did writer-director Paul Greengrass obtain before he proceeded with the movie?50. Universal, which is releasing United 93, has been criticized for _.51. Carole OHare thinks that besides honoring the passengers and crew for what th

26、ey did, the purpose of telling the story is _ about security.08年12月One of the major producers of athletic footwear, with 2002 sales of over $10 billion, is a company called Nike, with corporate headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon. Forbes magazine identified Nikes president, Philip Knight, as the 53rd-

27、richest man in the world in 2004. But Nike has not always been a large multimillion-dollar organization. In fact, Knight started the company by selling shoes from the back of his car at track meets.In the late 1950s Philip Knight was a middle-distance runner on the University of Oregon track team, c

28、oached by Bill Bowerman. One of the top track coaches in the U.S., Bowerman was also known for experimenting with the design of running shoes in an attempt to make them lighter and more shock-absorbent. After attending Oregon, Knight moved on to do graduate work at Stanford University; his MBA thesi

29、s was on marketing athletic shoes. Once he received his degree, Knight traveled to Japan to contact the Onitsuka Tiger Company, a manufacturer of athletic shoes. Knight convinced the companys officials of the potential for its product in the U.S. In 1963 he received his first shipment of Tiger shoes

30、, 200 pairs in total.In 1964, Knight and Bowerman contributed $500 each to from Blue Ribbon Sports, the predecessor of Nike. In the first few years, Knight distributed shoes out of his car at local track meets. The first employees hired by Knight were former college athletes. The company did not hav

31、e the money to hire “experts”, and there was no established athletic footwear industry in North America from which to recruit those knowledgeable in the field. In its early years the organization operated in an unconventional manner that characterized its innovative and entrepreneurial approach to t

32、he industry. Communication was informal; people discussed ideas and issues in the hallways, on a run, or over a beer. There was little task differentiation. There were no job descriptions, rigid reporting systems, or detailed rules and regulations. The team spirit and shared values of the athletes on Bowermans teams carried over and provided the basis for the collegial style of management that characterized the early years of Nikes.47. While serving as a track coach, Bowerman tried to design running sho