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华南理工大学
2012 年攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试卷
（请在答题纸上做答，试卷上做答无效，试后本卷必须与答题纸一同交回）
科目名称：英语综合水平测试
适用专业：英语语言文学；外国语言学及应用语言学
本卷满分：150 分 共 14 页
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Part I. Reading Comprehension (60 points)
Directions: Read the following passages and choose the best answer to complete each
statement. Write down your answers on the Answer Sheet. (2 points each)
Passage 1
Imagine a Hollywood movie with this plot: Lily Yang, a young widow, leaves Taiwan
and immigrates to the United States, hoping her son Chih-Yuan will have a better life there.
After the family settles in California, Chih-Yuan changes his first name to Jerry and heads
off to school, knowing only one word of English, the word “shoe.” Jerry learns English
quickly; he is exceptionally bright and becomes a straight-A student. When he graduates
from high school, he wins a scholarship to a top university, where he becomes friends with
David Filo, a fellow student. Together Jerry and David start an Internet company that
makes them both billionaires within five years.
If you think this could happen only in a Hollywood movie, you are wrong. It could
happen in California’s Silicon Valley. And it did.
In 1993, Jerry Yang and David Filo were studying for their doctorates in electrical
engineering at Stanford University in California. They did their work side by side at desks
that the university provided for them. But when they sat down at their computers, they
often found themselves “surfing the Web” – looking for interesting sites on the Internet,
which was new then – instead of working, like two kids watching TV rather than doing
their homework..
Jerry and David thought the Internet was fascinating and at the same time frustrating.
They were constantly asking each other, “Hey—where was that cool page we saw the
other day?” Sometimes it would take them hours to find a Web site again. The problem
was this: The only way to get to an Internet site was to type in its exact address (called its
url, for “universal resource locator”). A url could be a long string of numbers and letters
like this: http://www.wnn.or.jp/wnn-t/index_e.html. If the address was not perfectly
right—if one letter was left out or one dot was misplaced—it was impossible to get to that
Web site. Imagine a library with no card catalog. The only way to find a book would be to
know exactly where it was. That was the state of the Internet in 1993.
David developed software so that Jerry could compile a list of their favorite Web sites;
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