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The Internet is a big place. Nobody has the time to look at every webpage(网页) to find something. Yahoo can help
us to find what we need.
Two Stanford University students, David Filo and Jerry Yang started Yahoo in 1994. They started by making a list of
their favourite webpages. When their list got longer, they made a database(数据库) to keep their information. They let
everybody use it for free. Soon, thousands of people began to use their service.
They then made a new kind of software. It could take certain information and arrange it for someone to look at. If you
search for, say, "blue whales", the engine will give you a list of webpages with those words.
Yahoo became a public company in 1996. Filo and Yang, still young men, became rich. As their company grew, they
went on working hard. They improved their software. They also added more services, like shopping, free e-mail, in many
different countries and languages.
Yahoo. com is famous on the Internet. And unlike most other Web companies, Yahoo earns much money in fact.
1. When Yang and Filo wrote the first Yahoo software, they ________.
A. made people pay to use it
B. were still university students
C. knew it wasn't useful
D. were high school students
2. After Yang and Filo became rich, they _________.
A. became lazy
B. worked less
C. kept working hard
D. stopped working at Yahoo
3. What kind of Yahoo service is not discussed in the passage?
A. Buying and selling stocks(股票).
B. Search engine.
C. E-mail.
D. Shopping on the Internet.
4. Which of the following is TRUE?
A. Yahoo is always a big company.
B. Yahoo is a Web company.
C. Yahoo makes people pay for their e-mail service.
D. Yahoo is losing money.
5. What does the passage suggest about most Internet companies?
A. They don't earn much money.
B. They're all famous.
C. They're just like Yahoo.
D. They're all in English.