[简答题]Natural Search Engine

[单项选择]Internet search engine leader Google on Monday introduced a simpler way to publish the online personal journals known as "blogs," continuing a flurry of improvements that has coincided with stiffer competition from its former ally, Yahoo.
The revisions to Google’s Blogger. com are designed to make it easier for computer neophytes to create and update their own personal journals for free.
Blogs have caught on among the high-tech cognoscenti as an alternative way to spread information and commentary, skirting the mainstream media.
Mountain View, Calif.-based Google hopes the Blogger changes will encourage more people to visit and use the 5-year-old site. It’s the first significant upgrade of Blogger.com since Google bought the site’s parent company, Pyra Labs, 15 months ago.


A. Google
B. Yahoo
C. Sohu
D. Pyra Labs

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Search engine Google was aiming to float on Wall Street this week, valued at up to $ 36 billion. But the Internet company’s advisers are meeting this weekend to discuss possibly delaying the public listing after a sharp fall in share prices in New York on Friday. An insider said last night:’ "The float is teetering on the brink -- it really is 50/50 at this stage, although many of us are optimistic." The initial public offering (IPO) of shares in Google, which could raise nearly $ 4bn, will amount to one of the biggest IPOs for years. But many US firms have shelved their IPOs amid volatile market conditions and investors appear unwilling to subscribe to new equity. A Wall Street analyst said that the Google IPO "would be a seminal event for the American stock market" as its real significance was that it would test whether or not the recovery in equity prices since the end of the Iraq war had taken hold. "If this float works, a lot of other com
A. doubtful.
B. confused.
C. pessimistic.
D. confident.

[填空题]How many web-pages did the search engine find for the user

[单项选择]Google, the Internet search-engine company, has announced it will give more than twenty-five million dollars in money and investments to help the poor. The company says the effort involves using the power of information and technology to help people improve their lives.
Aleem Walji works for Google.org — the part of the company that gives money to good causes. He said the company’s first project will help identify where infectious (传染性的) diseases are developing. In Southeast Asia and Africa, for example, Google.org will work with partners to strengthen early-warning systems and take action against growing health threats.
Google.org’s second project will invest in ways to help small and medium-sized businesses grow. Walji says microfinance (小额信贷) is generally small, short-term loans that create few jobs. Instead, he says Google.org wants to develop ways to bring investors and business owners together to create jobs and improve economic growth.
Google.org will also g
A. Google’s profits and stock value
B. some international IT companies
C. the company’s own interests
D. local commercial banks

[单项选择] Natural Health Care Natural health care is a philosophy and a set of principles and practices based on science that lead to an extraordinary level of personal health and happiness. It recognizes the unity of all life and holds that physical, mental, and emotional health cannot be separated, and that personal health, environmental health, and community health are parts of a whole. Natural hygiene (卫生学) teaches that the best way to achieve best health is right living—developing self-esteem and a positive attitude towards life; eating fresh, whole natural foods; exercising regularly; getting plenty of rest and sleep; getting plenty of fresh air and sunshine; learning to handle stress; and avoiding all negative influences of life. Basic principles: Natural health care is unique in its argument that health is normal—as simple as living in harmony with nature. Health and disease are a continuum (连续统一体)—the same physiological (生理的) laws govern the b
A. may prove difficult
B. is impossible
C. will need a great deal of argument
D. should be easy