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. 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 ________.
Section B
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some
questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices
marked A), B), C), and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark
the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the
centre.
Passage One
Questions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage.
You hear the refrain all the time: the U.S. economy looks good statistically, but it
doesn’t feel good. Why doesn’t ever-greater wealth promote ever-greater happiness? It is
a question that dates at least to the appearance in 1958 of The Affluent (富裕的) Society
by John Kenneth Galbraith, who died recently at 97.
The Affluent Society is a modern classic because it helped define a new moment in
the human condition. For most of history, ―hunger, sickness, and cold‖ threatened nearly
everyone, Galbraith wrote. ―Poverty was found everywhere in that world. Obviously it is
not of ours.‖ After World War II, the dread of another Great Depression gave way to an
economic boom. In the 1930s unemployment had averaged 18.2 percent; in the 1950s it
was 4.5 percent.
To Galbraith, materialism had gone mad and would breed discontent. Through
advertising, companies conditioned consumers to buy things they didn’t really want or
need. Because so much spending was artificial, it would be unfulfilling. Meanwhile,
government spending that would make everyone better off was being cut down because
people instinctively—and wrongly—labeled government only as ―a necessary evil.‖
It’s often said that only the rich are getting ahead; everyone else is standing still or
falling behind. Well, there are many undeserving rich—overpaid chief executives, for
instance. But over any meaningful period, most people’s incomes are increasing. From
1995 to 2004, inflation-adjusted average family income rose 14.3 percent, to $43,200.