Real Networks expects to make its own software into an industry standard.
CareerBuilder's vice HR president Rosemary Haefher suggested that job seekers______.
A.take wild party pictures off their blogs
B.never talk ill of their previous bosses
C.avoid logging on social networks in real name
D.remove all the personal information online
•Read the following passage about a website.
•Are the sentences 16-22 "Right" or "Wrong"? If there isn't enough information to answer "Right" or "Wrong", choose "Doesn't say".
•For each sentence, mark one letter (A, B or C) on your Answer Sheet.
HERE WE GOOGLE AGAIN
Google dominates the Internet-search business, such as Netscape once ruled in Web browsers and Real Networks did in media players. Begun as a research project by two graduate students in 1998, Google today carries out more than 200 million searches a day and is estimated to have had $1 billion income last year, mainly from advertising sector.
It is the most visited search site, accounting for 35% of search-engine visits — compared with 28% for Yahoo, 16% for AOL and 15% for Microsoft's MSN, according to comScore Networks, a market-research company. But that masks its tree influence. Google's technology is used to power searches on other sites, such as Yahoo and AOL (though Yahoo plans to use its own technology soon). Taking this into account makes Google responsible for around 80% of all Internet searches. The company is now preparing for a stock market flotation in the next few months.
Google's power makes it just the sort of company that Microsoft typically tries to squash. At the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, Mr. Gates admitted that Google's search technology was "way better" than Microsoft's, and identified Internet search as a key focus for his company.
Google, Netscape amt Real Networks all play a very important role in their own field.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Doesn't say
A.You can increase your reading speed by three times.
B.No real increase in reading speed can be achieved.
C.You can increase your reading speed by four times.
D.You can double your reading speed.
So, what should be done to stimulate consumer spending? World-renowned economist Paul Krugman argues that the public should be encouraged to expect inflation. His theory is based on psychology: Consumers tend to increase spending if they expect inflation, and cut spending if they anticipate deflation.
In my opinion, though, this psychology applies only to real estate. During the bubble economy, land prices in and around Japan's six largest cities soared at an annualized 23.2 percent. In five years starting in fiscal 1985, land prices in the same area grew 2.8 times. In such a situation, people naturally rushed to obtain mortgages and buy homes. Land prices started falling in fiscal 1991. During the subsequent recession, prices in and around the six largest cities plunged 33 percent, or an annualized 10.2 percent, from fiscal 1990. The plunge led to a sharp depreciation in real-estate values, causing potential home buyers to expect further drops. This dampened real-estate transactions and touched off a chain reaction in price declines.
Such a scenario, however, is unlikely with the new generation of high-tech products such as personal computers, digital cameras and DVD systems. These products command surprisingly high prices when they debut, but mass production causes prices to drop by more than half within several years. Consumers expect deflation over the years for new high-tech products, which often sell out at first due to strong demand.
Real-estate prices are based on asset value (present value incorporating future gains) while consumer-product prices are based on utility value (value of convenience and satisfaction obtained from using the products ). Consumers buy new digital cameras for their convenience and new features. Thus expectations of future price drops are unlikely to discourage them from making purchases. Expectations of inflation do cause people to rush to buy real estate, but there is no significant correlation between consumer spending and expectations of inflation. However, should expectations of inflation cause a benign cycle of inflation and a strong rise in real-estate prices, the "asset effect" can lead to an increase in consumer spending.
In this passage the author tries to______.
A.criticize Paul Krugman for omitting some crucial points in his theory.
B.explain the recession in the consumer-product in Japan.
C.bring up a theory concerning the consumer behavior.
D.cast some light on how to pull Japan out of the recession in the consumer-product.
【C1】
A.wherever
B.anywhere
C.where
D.whenever