高等院校英语入学分级测试三级分类模拟题10及答案解析.doc
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1、高等院校英语入学分级测试三级分类模拟题 10 及答案解析(总分:100.00,做题时间:90 分钟)一、Fast Reading(总题数:1,分数:20.00)FacebookFacebook is the world“s largest social network with 750 million users worldwide as of July 2011. Its policies, more than those of any other company, are helping to define standards for privacy in the Internet age
2、. The company, founded in 2004 by a Harvard sophomore, Mark Zuckerberg, began life catering first to Harvard students and then to all high school and college students. It has since evolved into a broadly popular online destination used by both teenagers and adults of all ages. In country after count
3、ry, Facebook has cemented(巩固) itself as the leader, often displacing other social networks. But it has also come to be seen as one of the new titans of the Internet, challenging even Google with a vision of a Web tied together through personal relationships and recommendations, rather than by search
4、 algorithms(算法). In a major expansion, Facebook has spread itself across other Web sites by offering members the chance to “Like“ somethingshare it with their networkwithout leaving the Web page they“re on. In July 2011, hoping to give its users a more intimate, real-time way to stay in touch, the c
5、ompany introduced video chat in a partnership with Skype, the Internet calling service. Facebook“s foray(突袭) into video chatting came a week after Google introduced Google +, its latest and most serious challenge yet in social networking. That service includes video chatting for up to 10 people in a
6、n area of the site called Hangouts. The alliance with Skype expanded an existing partnership between the two companies. Their cooperation started in 2010 when Skype let its users connect with their Facebook friends from Skype and get news feeds. Facebook is also working on developing features that w
7、ould make the sharing of users“ favorite music, television shows and other media as much a part of its site as playing games or posting vacation photos. An Internet Titan Facebook has increasingly been seen as the only company to pose a threat to Google, which has used its dominant position in searc
8、h and online ad placement to expand into most comers of the Web. But as a closed network, Facebook“s oceans of content are out of the reach of Google“s search engines, and some analysts think the personal recommendations made through Facebook networks could become a rival to the algorithm-based resu
9、lts pioneered by Google. In one sign of how much Facebook regards Google as a competitor, The Daily Beast reported that in May 2011 Facebook had hired a public relations firm to persuade reporters and privacy advocates to write stories critical of a new Google service, Social Circles. Privacy is a s
10、ore subject for Facebook, which has made a series of stumbles on the subject. With the potential for legal and regulatory clashes growing along with its influence, the company has layered its executive, legal, policy and communications ranks with high-powered politicos (整治活动家) from both parties, bee
11、fing up (加强) its firepower for future battles in Washington and beyond. Disputed Origins The company“s rise has been marked by strings of controversies. Three other Harvard students maintain that they came up with the original idea and that Mr. Zuckerberg, whom they had hired to write code for the s
12、ite, stole the idea to create Facebook. The company has denied the allegations. Another Harvard classmate, Aaron Greenspan, claims that he created the underlying architecture for Facebook and ConnectU, but has declined to, enter in a legal battle. “The Social Network,“ a movie released in 2010 about
13、 Facebook“s tumultuous origins, offered up what A. O. Scott called “a creation story for the digital age and something of a morality tale, one driven by desire, marked by triumph, tainted by betrayal(出卖) and inspired by the new gospel(真理): the geek shall inherit the earth.“ Facebook has strenuously
14、(强烈地), and Mr. Zuckerberg more quietly, asserted that the portrayal of the company“s founding is fiction. And Mr. Zuckerberg disputed the characterization of him in the film, though in a New Yorker magazine profile, he acknowledged having indulged in a bit of sophomoric arrogance. Privacy Concerns L
15、ike other social networks, Facebook allows its users to create a profile page and forge online links with friends and acquaintances. It has distinguished itself from rivals, partly by imposing a spartan design ethos (道义,风气) and limiting how users can change the appearance of their profile pages. Tha
16、t has cut down on visual clutter and threats like spam, which plague rivals. It has decisively outstripped other networks that preceded it, like MySpace and Friendster, becoming what many analysts see as the “default platform“ of a new age of information organized around personal relationships. The
17、back and forth between Facebook and its users over privacy is gaining importance as the company“s growth continues unabated (不减弱的). Facebook“s policies, more than those of any other company, are helping to define standards for privacy in the Internet age. Bowing to pressure over privacy concerns, th
18、e company in May 2010 unveiled a set of controls that he said would help people understand what they were sharing online, and with whom. Facebook“s biggest mistake, Mr. Zuekerman said, had been in failing to notice that as Facebook added new features and its privacy controls grew increasingly compli
19、cated, those controls became effectively unusable for many people. In October 2010, Facebook acknowledged that some applications on its site, including the popular game FarmVille, had improperly shared identifying information about users, and in some cases their friends, with advertisers and Web tra
20、cking companies. The company said it was talking to application developers about how they handled personal information, and was looking at ways to prevent this from happening again. The Goldman Deal In January 2011, Facebook raised $500 million from Goldman Sachs and a Russian investor in a transact
21、ion that values the company at $50 billion. As part of the deal with Facebook, the bank could raise as much as $1.5 billion from investors for Facebook. The new money will give the company more firepower to steal away valuable employees, develop new products and possibly pursue acquisitionsall witho
22、ut being a publicly traded company. The investment may also allow earlier shareholders, including Facebook employees, to cash out at least some of their stakes. The new investment came as the Securities and Exchange Commission began an inquiry into the increasingly hot private market for shares in I
23、nternet companies, including Facebook, Twitter, the gaming site Zynga and LinkedIn, an online professional networking site. Some experts suggest the inquiry is focused on whether certain companies are improperly using the private market to get around public disclosure requirements. Also in January,
24、catching many off guard, Goldman said that it would limit its Facebook offering to foreign investors, excluding clients in the United States because of worries that the deal could run afoul of (与冲突) securities. The offering to high-net-worth clients was supposed to have been a triumph for the firm,
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