Perhaps you have heard a lot about the Internet, but what is it?The internet is many different networks around the world. A network is a group of computers put together.
Maybe that doesn’t sound interesting. But when we’ve joined the internet, there are lots and lots of things wecan do. We can have a lot of interest on the World Wide Web (WWW). We can use the Internet instead of a libraryto find all kinds of information for our homework. We can find information about our favorite sports or film starsand do shopping on the Internet. We can also send messages to other people by e-mail. It is much cheaper and quicker than calling our friends or sending a letter.
Thanks to the Internet, the world is becoming smaller and smaller. People can now work at
home with a computer in front, getting and sending the information they need. They can buy or sell whatever they want by the Internet. But do you know 98% of the information is in English? So what will English be like tomorrow?
【小题1】The passage is mainly about _________________.

The Internet is a big place．No one has enough time to find everything on the Internet．Yahoo gives us a lot of help．

Two Stanford University students, Jerry Yang and David Filo started it in 1994．They made a list of their favorite webpages．When their list got bigger, they make a database (数据库) to keep all the information．They let everyone use it for free．Soon, thousands of people were using it．

Then they made a new kind of software．It could store much information, so people can find information by using it．If you look for "animals", it will give you a list of webpages with the word．

Yahoo became a public company in 1996．As the company grew, Yang and Filo went on working hard．They put more uses in the software, such as shopping, free e-mails, etc．They started Yahoo in many different countries and in different languages．

Yahoo is famous on the Internet．More and more people like to use it to find information．

1．When Yang and Filo make a list of their favorite webpages, they                ．

A．made people pay for using it                  B．were still university students

C．knew it wasn't useful                        D．were high school students

2．After the company became bigger, Yang and Filo               ．

A．became lazy                                           B．worked less

C．kept working hard                                   D．stopped working

3．Why people can find information by using the new kind of software?

4．Can people find Yahoo in many different countries and in different languages?

5．When did Yahoo become a public company?

 We should talk in English as ______ as possible.