Real Networks suggests Software market is becoming a mixed market.
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
The chairman (proposed) that we stop the meeting.
A. stated
B. announced
C. demanded
D. suggested
Matching Prices to Demand—in Real Time
Can an ice cream shop charge more for a cone on a hot day? Should a parking space get (21) as the garage fills up?
Boston Consulting Group senior adviser George Stalk believes business can—and should—charge according to (22) The idea builds on a longtime strategy most (23) the airline industry, called yield management, in which carriers (24) prices as planes fill up. The consultant, who in the late 1980s coined the term" time-based competition", the notion that (25) is a strategic weapon, thinks far more companies could take similar steps to match prices to real-time customer demand. Such moves are especially (26) following a year when oil and commodities prices swung wildly, he notes, "companies couldn't change prices as fast as they needed to. "
Stalk says existing technologies such as radio-frequency identification, GPS, and wireless networks could someday make what he calls dynamic pricing a reality. He points to Ohio auto insurer Progressive, which is expanding its MyRate program that offers discounts in return (27) demonstrably safe driving habits. Customers who (28) to the program can plug a device into their cars' diagnostic ports, often situated beneath the steering wheel. The devices then wirelessly (29) data to Progressive on how many miles customers travel, how fast they drive, and other factors. Progressive uses the information to offer policyholders discounts every six months for safe behaviour and, in states where it's allowed by laws, to tack (30) surcharges for risky driving.
(21)
A.cheap
B.expensive
C.costly
D.costlier
A.People have been separated from each other by using computers.
B.The Internet makes people waste a lot of time and feel very lonely.
C.The Internet has become a tool for a new kind of social communication.
D.A lot of people regard the person-to-person communication as a good thing.