单选题Directions: Read the following text. Choose
the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on the
ANSWER SHEET. For most of the past
25 years, no single person or company has been powerful enough to control how
the American Internet works. One {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}for
that was the diffuse and chaotic nature of its online economy—a kind of
{{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}Wild West where thousands of
producers {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}the attention of the
masses. In this environment, no single company, not {{U}} {{U}} 4
{{/U}} {{/U}}giants like Google {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}}
{{/U}}Facebook, {{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}enough traffic to bend
the network's free-market checks and balances. The
infrastructure of the Internet helped {{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}}
{{/U}}everyone on a level playing field as well. All players, from individuals to
{{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}companies, had to pay an Internet
service provider (ISP) a flat {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}, based
on the speed or volume of the service, for online {{U}} {{U}} 10
{{/U}} {{/U}}. In {{U}} {{U}} 11 {{/U}} {{/U}}for those fees,
the ISPs would expand and maintain their pipes and pass their customer's traffic
to and from another set of companies that owned the larger, global transit ways
for online {{U}} {{U}} 12 {{/U}} {{/U}}. It was, for a time, a
marvelous architecture, fundamentally unlike any of the other networks in
American lives. There was no government ownership {{U}} {{U}} 13
{{/U}} {{/U}}with the interstate highway system, no {{U}} {{U}}
14 {{/U}} {{/U}}long-distance plans as with phone networks and no
individual postage required to send content as with the U.S. Postal
Service. But in recent years, that unique {{U}} {{U}}
15 {{/U}} {{/U}}has started to crack, and the reason is the size of the
biggest players. A decade ago, thousands of companies {{U}} {{U}}
16 {{/U}} {{/U}}in the daily buzz of Internet traffic, said Craig
Labovitz, the CEO of DeepField, a network-research firm. By 2009, 150 companies
{{U}} {{U}} 17 {{/U}} {{/U}}half of all that traffic, and by
early this year, just 30 companies {{U}} {{U}} 18 {{/U}}
{{/U}}the {{U}} {{U}} 19 {{/U}} {{/U}}of the daily give-and-take.
As of March, just two companies in particular—Netflix and Google, which owns
YouTube—accounted for 47% of all Internet traffic during prime-time hours at
night, {{U}} {{U}} 20 {{/U}} {{/U}}Sandvine, a network-equipment
company.
【答案解析】[解析] 短语from to强调一种对比的感觉，既然是对比，前后一般会出现相反的信息，from individuals to ______ companies，个人相比公司自然是小的，故该空形容词不可能再填D．small；也不会是B．medium“中等的”；因为这两个词与individuals不能形成很好的对比。而A．trivial的意思是“琐碎的，不重要的”，显然也不适合形容企业，故答案为C．giant；而这个词与上文的not even giants like Google or Facebook中的giants形成了原词复现。
单选题
A.fee
B.fare
C.bill
D.account
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] A．fee泛指“费用”；B．fare也指“费用”，但多指车票、船票等交通费用；而C．bill是“账单”；D．account是“银行账户”。单从表面意思来看，fee和bill比较合适，但是pay the fee指支付费用；而pay the bill一般指埋单；且后文明显出现了those fees，故推断答案为fee。
【答案解析】[解析] 文章背景：no ______ long-distance plans as with phone networks and no individual postage required to send content as with the U.S. Postal Service.根据中间的and一词，以及and后面一句很不起眼的postage(邮资，邮费)，我们知道这里的空和钱有关系。而符合这一条件的只有D．costly“昂贵的”。
【答案解析】[解析] take for“认为，当成”；pay for“支付”；account for“占……比例；解释”；look for“寻找”。文章说：2009年，150家企业______一半的互联网通信量。显然A“当成”、B支付、D寻找都不合适，答案为C．accounted a for“占……比例”。
【答案解析】[解析] A．regardless of“不顾，不管”；B．because of“由于”；C．as for“关于”；D．according to“根据”。原文：As of March, just two companies in particular—Netflix and Google, which owns YouTube—accounted for 47% of all Internet traffic during prime-time hours at night, ______ Sandvine, a network-equipment company.______网络设备公司Sandvine...，我们把四个备选项分别代入这一背景中，很容易得出答案为D．according to。