In brand-new offices with a still-empty game room and enough space to triple their staff of nearly 30, a trio of entrepreneurs is leading an Internet start-up with an improbable mission: to out-Google Google. The three started Powerset, a company whose aim is to deliver better answers than any other search engine—including Google—by letting users type questions in plain English. And they have made believers of Silicon Valley investors whose fortunes turn on identifying the next big thing.
Powerset is hardly alone. (41) . And Wikia Inc, a company started by a founder of Wikipedia, plans to develop a search engine that. like the popular Web-based encyclopedia, would be built by a community of programmers and users. (42) . It also shows how much the new Internet economy resembles a planetary system where everything and everyone orbits around search in general, and around Google in particular.
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Can you imagine how different your life would be if you did not know how to read and write Many of the things you (41) for granted during an ordinary day (42) no longer be possible if you could not read. You would miss the basic (43) you depend on for simple activities -- (44) from following instructions on a medicine bottle to (45) traffic signs. If you could not read (46) , newspapers, and magazines, you would be out of (47) with the world around you. Your understanding of that world would be limited even further (48) the insight(见识) provided by stories, poems, and novels. If you (49) not write, you would be unable to record information and ideas for other people. (50) , you would lose the personal pleasure of keeping a (51) to explore your private thoughts, creating an (52) world in a story, or capturing your feelings (53) the words of a poem or song.
Try to imagine how different life would be if (54) could read and write. The shape of our entire (55) would change. Obv
A. anything
B. nothing
C. something
D. everything
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