单选题 "I'm a total geek all around," says Angela Byron, a 27-year-old computer programmer who has just graduated from Nova Scotia Community College. And yet, like many other students, she "never had the confidence" to approach any of the various open-source software communities on the internet--distributed teams of volunteers who collaborate to build software that is then made freely available. But thanks to Google, the world's most popular search engine and one of the biggest proponents of open-source software, Ms Byron spent the summer contributing code to Drupal, an open-source project that automates the management of websites. "It's awesome," she says.
Ms Byron is one of 419 students (out of 8,744 who applied) who were accepted for Google's "summer of code". While it sounds like a hyper-nerdy summer camp, the students neither went to Google's campus in Mountain View, California, nor to wherever their mentors at the 41 participating open-source projects happened to be located. Instead, Google acted as a matchmaker and sponsor. Each of the participating open-source projects received $500 for every student it took on; and each student received $4,500 ($500 right away, and $4,000 on completion of their work). Oh, and a T-shirt.
All of this is the idea of Chris DiBona, Google's open-source boss, who was brainstorming with Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google's founders, last year. They realised that a lot of programming talent goes to waste every summer because students take summer jobs flipping burgers to make money, and let their coding skills degrade. "We want to make it better for students in the summer," says Mr. DiBona, adding that it also helps the open- source community and thus, indirectly, Google, which uses lots of open-source software behind the scenes. Plus, says Mr. DiBona, "it does become an opportunity for recruiting."
Elliot Cohen, a student at Berkeley, spent his summer writing a "Bayesian network toolbox" for Python, an open-source programming language. "I'm a pretty big fan of Google," he says. He has an interview scheduled with Microsoft, but "Google is the only big company that I would work at," he says. And if that doesn't work out, he now knows people in the open-source community, "and it's a lot less intimidating./

单选题 Ms Byron's comment on her own summer experiment is ______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[考点解析] 这是一道细节题，测试考生对原文细节尤其是代词的理解和把握能力。本题的答案信息来源在首段的最后两句话，其大意是:“Byron女士将暑期花在了为Drupal项目的编程上……”。她说“这次经历太棒了”。由首段尾句Byron女士本人的陈述可推断: Byron女士本人对其暑期工作深感激动和兴奋。故本题的正确选项应该是D“enthusiastic”(热情的，热心的)。考生在阅读时应注意代词的使用，更要注意句子上下文之间的联系。
单选题 It can be inferred from the second paragraph that the participants of Google's "summer of code" have ______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[考点解析] 本题是一道细节推导题，测试考生深入理解原文并进行推导的能力。本题的答案信息来源在第二段的首句，该句的大意是:“Byron女士是419名学生中的一个(来自于8 744名申请者)，他们被接纳到Google的'编码之夏'项目”。由此句进行深入推理可得出:Google“编码之夏”的参与者是经过挑选的。故本题的正确选项是A“been selected”(被挑选)。考生在阅读时应注意深入理解原文的含义，不能只停留在文字的表面之意。
单选题 The work of the participating open-source projects conducted by students, according to the text, is ______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[考点解析] 这是一道细节题，测试考生对原文重点细节的理解与分析能力。本题的答案信息在第二段的倒数第二句，该句后半句的大意是:“每个学生总共收到4 500美金(马上收到500美金，在其工作完成之日可获得4 000美金)”。可见，学生的工作不是“无偿的”，而是“有偿的”。故本题的正确选项是B“rewarded”(有回报的)。考生在阅读时应对原文中的细节进行条理清晰的分析和深入归纳。
单选题 The idea of Chris DiBona, according to the text, is enriched by ______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[考点解析] 本题是一道细节题，测试考生对原文重点词语的准确理解。本题的答案信息来源在第三段的首句，其大意是:“Chris DiBona是Google开放资源的老板。一切有关 '编码之夏'目的内容都是Chris DiBona的想法。Chris DiBona在去年与Larry Page和 Sergey Brin一起商讨(brainstorming)大计”。由此可以推断:Chris DiBona的想法不单纯是其个人想法，里面含有集体的智慧(即别人的思想贡献)。故本题的正确选项是D“others 'wisdom”(其他人的智慧)。考生在阅读时不要忽略对于重点词语的控制和分析。
单选题 Elliot Cohen is mentioned in the text so as to ______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[考点解析] 本题属于一道中心主旨题型，测试考生对全文中心主旨，尤其是段落之间关系的把握和理解。本题的答案信息来源在尾段和倒数第二段的尾句。作者在倒数第二段借 DiBona先生之口提出一个论点，然后在尾段利用Elliot Cohen这位学生的例子进行支持。倒数第二段的尾句说:“Google的'编码之夏'项目成为招募员工的一次机会”。尾段有关 Elliot Cohen的叙述就是用来支持倒数第二段尾句这一论点的。故本题的正确选项应该是A“illustrate the indirect effect of summer of code 'on Google 's recruitment”(举例说明“编码之夏”项目对Google招募所产生的间接影响)。考生在阅读时要把握上下文之间的语意关系。