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2．You have heard of Google，MySpace，Facebook and some geniuses who made billions from brilliant computer ideas．Now meet a girl genius-a New Jersey teenager who turned her high school inspiration into the fastest growing and the third largest online social network in America，behind MySpace and Facebook．
  She's only 18，but Catherine Cook has become a millionaire by updating one of the symbols of the American educational experience-the high school yearbook．
  Not long after Catherine arrived at her new high school at 15，she was flipping through an old yearbook with Dave，her 16-year-old brother，when they found the name of a girl they both knew．Yet the yearbook picture looked nothing like her．In that moment an idea occurred to Catherine．
^"The pictures always smell horrible and the books never really tell you anything about the person．So we thought：why not put it online？Why not have a profile page that can list your TV interests，the music you like，your additional activities？"she said．
  However，neither Catherine nor her brother knew anything about building a website，but family help was at hand．Catherine and Dave have an older brother，Geoff，who had already made an Internet fortune of his own while studying at Harvard University．
  Geoff immediately saw the promise in his younger sister and brother's idea and helped them build the teen networking site myYearbook．com．The website allows friends to stay in touch，share videos and music，provides games and acts as a matchmaker．
   By April 2005 the family was ready to test its new toy．Catherine and Dave turned up at school wearing T-shirts with slogans that read：^"Are you the prettiest girl in school？How about the most foolish？Find out at myYearbookxom．"
  As teenagers around the country poured into the site，they were followed by a group of investors and advertisers．
   With 10 million users，most under 18，the site is now earning more than $10 million a year in advertising sales．
   Catherine is starting her second year as a student at Georgetown University in Washington DC，but she still works more than 25 hours per week-outside of school hours．

56．What does this passage mainly talk about？（no more than 10 words）A New Jersey teenager updated the high school yearbook．
57．What is the meaning of the underlined part in paragraph 3？（no more than 10 words）suddenly catherine came up with an idea．
58．Who helped  Catherine build the teen networking site my Yearbook．com？（One word）Geoff
59．Besides individual information，what others functions does Catherine's teen networking site myYearbook．com．provide？（no more than 20 words）The website allows friends to stay in touch，share video and music，provides games and and acts as a matchmaker．
60．What do you think makes Catherine Cook succeed？（no more than 10 words）Her creativity，hard work as well as her family's help．．

Answer 1

分析 Catherine在15岁时翻看哥哥相册时，他们共同认识的一个女孩名字都忘记了，这让她突发想到创办这样一个社交网站．

解答 56．A New Jersey teenager updated the high school yearbook．主旨大意概括题．在第一段Now meet a girl genius-a New Jersey teenager who turned her high school inspiration into the fastest growing and the third largest online social network in America，behind MySpace and Facebook．这句可以当做全文的主旨句，即一个女中学生创建了第三大网络社交系统．
57．suddenly catherine came up with an idea．判断推理题．根据这段的描述可知，Catherine在15岁时翻看哥哥相册时，他们共同认识的一个女孩名字都忘记了，这让她突发想到创办这样一个社交网站．
58．Geoff 细节题．Geoff immediately saw the promise in his younger sister and brother's idea and helped them build 这句话告诉我们Geoff帮助他们建立了该社交网站．
59．The website allows friends to stay in touch，share video and music，provides games and and acts as a matchmaker．细节题．根据文章The website allows friends to stay in touch，share videos and music，provides games and acts as a matchmaker．这句看出，该社交网站还提供交友，分享视频和音乐等功能．
60．Her creativity，hard work as well as her family's help．细节题．最后一段but she still works more than 25 hours per week-outside of school hours．推出每周工作25个小时，应该是很努力的一个人，另外在上文提到Geoff给了她很大的帮助．

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