单选题
Like many other aspects of the computer age, Yahoo began as an idea,
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into a hobby and lately has
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into a full-time passion. The two developers of Yahoo, David Filo and Jerry Yang, Ph. D candidates
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Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, started their guide in April 1994 as a way to keep
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of their personal interest on the Internet. Before long they
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that their homebrewed lists were becoming too long and
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. Gradually they began to spend more and more time on Yahoo.
During 1994, they
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yahoo into a customized database designed to
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the needs of the thousands of users
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began to use the service through the closely
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Internet community. They developed customized software to help them
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locate, identify and edit material
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on the Internet. The name Yahoo is
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to stand for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle", but Filo and Yang insist they selected the
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because they considered themselves yahoos. Yahoo itself first
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on Yang"s workstation, "akebono", while the search engine was
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on Filo"s computer, "Konishiki".
In early 1995 Marc Andersen, co-founder of Netscape Communication in Mountain View, California, invited Filo and Yang to move their files
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to larger computers
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at Netscape. As a result Stanford"s computer network returned to
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, and both parties benefited. Today, Yahoo
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. organized information on tens of thousands of computers linked to the web.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解析] grow into something的意思是“发展成……”，符合题意。其他3项became something“成为……”；turn into something“转变成……”(此处时态不对)；intend something“想要，意指……”都与题意不符。
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[解析] 四个选项中：turn into something的意思是“变成……”：make something into something的意思是“把……变成……”；see into something的意思是“调查，领会，了解”；look into something的意思是“朝……里面看，调查，浏览”。根据题意应选D项。
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] 此处考查的是固定搭配in (the department of) Electrical Engineering，意思是“电气工程系的”。因此A项正确。
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解析] 四个选项中，keep track of的意思是“记录”；keep in touch/contact with的意思是“保持联系”；keep a record of的意思是“记录”，根据题意应选C项。
【答案解析】[解析] 此处意为“联系紧密、关系密切的互联网社区”，据此应选C项，即closely bound Internet community。relative的意思是“有关系的，相关的”，一般前面不加其他修饰词；interactive的意思是“交互式的”；contact的意思是“与……接触，建立联系”，contacted一般不做定语。