64.Microsoft’s’ network effect’ probably means . A.the more people use PCs.the more software they will buy B.the more people use Internet.the more money Microsoft can make C.the better product, the more value D.the later operating system.the better software 答案 D B C A Passage 22 (湖北省部分重点中学2009届高三第一次联考) C Space travel used to be a young man’s game.but when John Glenn went into space aboard Discovery, four generations of men and women could gaze into the sky and think “That could be me someday. At the same time Glenn was looking down and doing some thinking of his own. “It’s quite something. he said,“to look down on this blue planet.seeing that little film of air that surrounds it.You fly over the Mediterranean,over the Middle East-and it’s so beautiful.You wonder why in the world humans can’t solve all the problems they’ve created and left to fester over the centuries. “I was at the Houston airport on my way back to Washington recently when this older guy walked up to me.all excited.He shook my hand and said.`Boy, you’re changing my life! I said how’s that? He said.`I’m 74.and ever since 1 was a kid I’ve wanted to climb Mount Kilimanjaro.I haven’t done it.and I kept putting it off.And now I’m gonna do it! And all the time his wife is standing behind him.just shaking her head. “So I may have killed a man on Kilimanjaro,for all I know.But I’ve noticed something.I’ve noticed that maybe because of all this,people are seeing themselves in a way they haven’t before.They’re realizing that older people have the same ambitions.hopes.and dreams as anybody else.I say you should live a life based on how you feel and not by the calendar. 查看更多

 

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Last week,Bill Gates retired from full-time work at the world’s biggest computer software company, Microsoft.He will remain chairman of the company he established with Paul Allen in nineteen seventy-five.

Mister Gates leaves Microsoft at a time of change in the computing industry.Microsoft grew at a time when personal computers,or PCs,were replacing big mainframe computers as the main computing tools.He showed that huge profits could be made in software as PCs increasingly were found “on every desk and in every home.”

Early on,Microsoft understood the importance of the “network effect.” That is, software is the kind of product that increases in value as more people buy and use it.

Now,free Internet software threatens to replace PC-based software.Devices like “smart phones” connect people to the Internet.Google has become a 1eader in Internet Web searching and advertising.Microsoft has struggled to change with the new computer environment.Its efforts to sell music and its latest operating system,Vista,have not been big successes.And an attempt this year to buy Yahoo for over forty-seven billion dollars failed.

In the last several years,Bill Gates has slowly given control of Microsoft to others.In two thousand,he gave the job of chief executive officer to Steve Ballmer, a friend of his since their years at Harvard University.Mister Ballmer has been with Microsoft since nineteen eighty.Still,it is hard to overestimate(过高估计) the influence of Bill Gates on computing.He developed the business model that put the Windows operating system on about ninety percent of the world’s one billion PCs.Microsoft now has almost ninety thousand employees.

At fifty―two years old,Bill Gates is currently the third richest man in the world.He is worth about fifty-eight billion dollars.He remains Microsoft’s biggest shareholder.

Mister Gates will now spend most of his time working at his charity organization, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.The foundation is the world's largest charity with over thirty-seven billion dollars.It provides money for health, education and other projects,mostly in developing countries.

 

60.Bill Gates retired from full-time work in Microsoft because           

A.he had earned enough money

B.Google threatened Microsoft’s leading place

C.PCs were out of fashion

D.of a reason that was not mentioned

61.Which of the following statements is true about Bill Gates?

A.Bill Gates set up Microsoft on his own in 1975.

B.Bill Gates failed to buy Yahoo.

C.Bill Gates was the chief executive officer when he retired.

D.Bill Gates is the richest man in the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

62.Microsoft grew at a time when              

A.‘smart phones’ connect people to Internet

B.Vista was put into market

C.Personal Computers were on every desk and in every home

D.Computers became the main computing tools

63.Microsoft’s “network effect” probably means                .

A.the more people use PCs,the more software they will buy

B.the more people use Internet,the more money Microsoft can make

C.the better product, the more value

D.the later operating system,the better software

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Last week,Bill Gates retired from full-tine.rime work at the world’s biggest computer software company, Microsoft.He will remain chairman of the company he established with Paul Allen in nineteen seventy-five.

Mister Gates leaves Microsoft at a time of change in the computing industry.Microsoft grew at a time when personal computers,or PCs,were replacing big mainframe computers as the main computing tools.He showed that huge profits could be made in software as PCs increasingly were found “on every desk and in every home.”

Early on,Microsoft understood the importance of the “network effect.” That is.software is the kind of product that increases in value as more people buy and use it.

Now,free Internet software threatens to replace PC-based software.Devices like “smart phones” connect people to the Internet.Google has become a 1eader in Internet Web searching and advertising.Microsoft has struggled to change with the new computer environment.Its efforts to sell music and its latest operating system,Vista,have not been big successes.And an attempt this year to buy Yahoo for over forty-seven billion dollars failed.

In the last several years,Bill Gates has slowly given control of Microsoft to others.In two thousand,he gave the job of chief executive officer to Steve Ballmer, a friend of his since their years at Harvard University.Mister Ballmer has been with Microsoft since nineteen eighty.Still,it is hard to overestimate the influence of Bill Gates on computing.He developed the business model that put the Windows operating system on about ninety percent of the world’s one billion PCs.Microsoft now has almost ninety thousand employees.

At fifty—two years old,Bill Gates is currently the third richest man in the world.He is worth about fifty-eight billion dollars.He remains Microsoft’s biggest shareholder.

Mister Gates will now spend most of his time working at his charity organization, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.The foundation is the world's largest charity with over thirty-seven billion dollars.It provides money for health, education and other projects,mostly in developing countries.

1.Bill Gates retired from full-time work in Microsoft because             

A.he had earned enough money

B.Google threatened Microsoft’s leading place

C.PCs were out of fashion

D.of a reason that was not mentioned

2.Which of the following statements is true about Bill Gates?

A.Bill Gates set up Microsoft on his own in 1975.

B.Bill Gates failed to buy Yahoo.

C.Bill Gates was the chief executive officer when he retired.

D.Bill Gates is the richest mall in the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

3.Microsoft grew at a time when                      

A.‘smart phones’ connect people to Internet

B.Vista was put into market

C.Personal Computers were on every desk and in every home

D.Computers became the main computing tools

4.Microsoft’s ‘network effect’ probably means               

A.the more people use PCs,the more software they will buy

B.the more people use Internet,the more money Microsoft can make

C.the better product, the more value

D.the later operating system,the better software

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(湖北省部分重点中学2009届高三第一次联考)

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Last week,Bill Gates retired from full-tine.rime work at the world’s biggest computer software company, Microsoft.He will remain chairman of the company he established with Paul Allen in nineteen seventy-five.

Mister Gates leaves Microsoft at a time of change in the computing industry.Microsoft grew at a time when personal computers,or PCs,were replacing big mainframe computers as the main computing tools.He showed that huge profits could be made in software as PCs increasingly were found “on every desk and in every home.”

Early on,Microsoft understood the importance of the “network effect.” That is.software is the kind of product that increases in value as more people buy and use it.

Now,free Internet software threatens to replace PC-based software.Devices like “smart phones” connect people to the Internet.Google has become a 1eader in Internet Web searching and advertising.Microsoft has struggled to change with the new computer environment.Its efforts to sell music and its latest operating system,Vista,have not been big successes.And an attempt this year to buy Yahoo for over forty-seven billion dollars failed.

In the last several years,Bill Gates has slowly given control of Microsoft to others.In two thousand,he gave the job of chief executive officer to Steve Ballmer, a friend of his since their years at Harvard University.Mister Ballmer has been with Microsoft since nineteen eighty.Still,it is hard to overestimate the influence of Bill Gates on computing.He developed the business model that put the Windows operating system on about ninety percent of the world’s one billion PCs.Microsoft now has almost ninety thousand employees.

At fifty—two years old,Bill Gates is currently the third richest man in the world.He is worth about fifty-eight billion dollars.He remains Microsoft’s biggest shareholder.

Mister Gates will now spend most of his time working at his charity organization,the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.The foundation is the world's largest charity with over thirty-seven billion dollars.It provides money for health,education and other projects,mostly in developing countries.

61.Bill Gates retired from full-time work in Microsoft because             

A.he had earned enough money

B.Google threatened Microsoft’s leading place

C.PCs were out of fashion

D.of a reason that was not mentioned

62.Which of the following statements is true about Bill Gates?

A.Bill Gates set up Microsoft on his own in 1975.

B.Bill Gates failed to buy Yahoo.

C.Bill Gates was the chief executive officer when he retired.

D.Bill Gates is the richest mall in the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

63.Microsoft grew at a time when                      

A.‘smart phones’ connect people to Internet

B.Vista was put into market

C.Personal Computers were on every desk and in every home

D.Computers became the main computing tools

64.Microsoft’s’ network effect’ probably means               

A.the more people use PCs,the more software they will buy

B.the more people use Internet,the more money Microsoft can make

C.the better product, the more value

D.the later operating system,the better software

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