Question

What is a six-letter word that immediately comes to mind when you need some information on the Internet? You probably thought of Google. But Google wasn’t always the name of the famous search engine. In fact, the original name was BackRub!

BackRub was the name two graduate students gave to the new search engine they developed in 1996. They called it BackRub because the engine used backlinks to measure the popularity of Web sites. Later, they wanted a better name — a name that suggests huge quantities of data. They thought of the word googol. (A googol is a number followed by 100 zeros.) When they checked the Internet registry of names to see if googol was already taken, one of the students misspelled the word by mistake, and that’s how Google was born.

Google is just one example of a name change in the business world. Many other companies have decided to change their names or the names of their products. Here are some more examples:

Jerry Yang and David Filo, two young computer specialists, developed a guide to Internet content in 1994. They called it “Jerry and David’s Guide to World Wide Web.” But they soon realized that this wasn’t a very catchy name, so they searched through a dictionary and found a better one: “Yahoo.”

Sometimes companies change their names because of the popularity of one of their products. In 1962, a young runner named Phil Knight started a company called Blue Ribbon Sports. In 1971, Knight decided to design and manufacture his own brand of shoes. He named the shoes after the Greek goddess of victory — Nike. Nike shoes became so well known that Knight changed the name of the whole company to Nike.

1.According to the text, Google .

A. has been famous since 1996 B. is a result of a spelling mistake

C. means a number followed by 100 zeros

D. is the original name of the search engine

2.Jerry and David changed the guide’s name to Yahoo because the original name .

A. had been registeredB. had been forgotten

C. was not attractiveD. was too short

3. The company Nike got its name from .

A. its foundersB. its customers

C. its popular productsD. its advanced techniques

4.Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A. The name changesB. The history of Google

C. How to choose a name?D. Why are names important?

 

Answer 1

1.B

2.C

3.C

4.A

【解析】本文主要敘述了Google，Yahoo和Nike這三家公司的名字都是改變而來的，告訴我們這些公司改名的原因，有的是因為拼寫錯誤，有的是因為原來的名字不夠吸引人，也有的是根據(jù)產(chǎn)品的名字來改名的。

1.B

【試題解析】細節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章第二段最后3行When they checked the Internet registry of names to see if googol was already taken, one of the students misspelled the word by mistake, and that’s how Google was born可知當他們核對的時候發(fā)現(xiàn)googol已經(jīng)被注冊了。但是其中一個學生拼寫錯誤了，漏掉了其中的一個o，所以就成了Google。所以這個名字是由于一個拼寫錯誤而出現(xiàn)的。故B正確。

2.2】C

【試題解析】細節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章第4段最后2行But they soon realized that this wasn’t a very catchy name, so they searched through a dictionary and found a better one: “Yahoo.”中的this wasn’t a very catchy name可知他們認識到這個名字不能吸引人，所以就改名為Yahoo。所以C 正確。

3.3】C

【試題解析】細節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章最后一段首尾句Sometimes companies change their names because of the popularity of one of their products.和He named the shoes after the Greek goddess of victory — Nike. Nike shoes became so well known that Knight changed the name of the whole company to Nike可知文章最后一段是講述部分公司是根據(jù)產(chǎn)品的名字而改名的，接著列舉了Nike公司的例子，公司我們這家公司正是根據(jù)一款鞋子的名字Nike而改名的。故C正確。

4.4】A

【試題解析】主旨大意題。本文主要敘述了Google，Yahoo和Nike這三家公司的名字都是改變而來的，告訴我們這些公司改名的原因，有的是因為拼寫錯誤，有的是因為原來的名字不夠吸引人，也有的是根據(jù)產(chǎn)品的名字來改名的。A項能夠包括本文的中心思想。

【長難句解析】

But they soon realized that this wasn’t a very catchy name, so they searched through a dictionary and found a better one: “Yahoo.”

【翻譯】但是他們很快就意識到這不是一個很有吸引力的名字，于是他們就通過字典搜索，找到了一個更好的名字：Yahoo.

【分析】首先本句中含有一個that引導的賓語從句，that是可以省略的。So引導的是一個狀語從句，表示上下文的因果關系。