2020年高考英语外刊时事命题阅读理解：谷歌联合创始人双双宣布“退出江湖”

1、how two obnoxious students changed the internet谷歌联合创始人双双宣布“退出江湖”ON THE SUMMER OF 1995, a second-year graduate student named Sergey Brin was giving a tour of Stanford University to prospective (潜在的) students. Larry Page, an engineering graduate from the University of Michigan, was one of those being

2、shown around the campus. “I thought he was pretty obnoxious (令人讨厌的),” Page said of the encounter. “He had really strong opinions about things, and I guess I did, too.”“We both found each other obnoxious,” said Brin. “But we said it a little bit jokingly. Obviously, we spent a lot of time talking to

3、each other, so there was something there.”The technology of the web at the time meant that people could tell where a webpage linked to just by reading its code (代码). However, to get a complete list of every page to which it linked, they needed to check every other website on the internet. Pages “Bac

4、kRub” project aimed to qualify these backlinks (反向链接). It was a complex task that not only demanded vast computing resources, but also required extremely complex mathematics, which was where the math prodigy (奇才) Brin came in.In 1996, Page and Brin came up with the PageRank algorithm (算法) a ranking

5、system which would prove to be a breakthrough idea. The algorithm was devised to give more weight to links that came from more authoritative (权威性的) pages. The more backlinks a site had, the more likely it was to be a good source. And the more the web grew, the better BackRub got.In August 1996, Back

6、Rub became Google, a play on the term “googol,” meaning “10100.” The first version appeared on the Stanford homepage, run from computers cobbled together (七拼八凑) by Page and Brin. The system successfully enabled users to search all 24 million pages stored in its database.On September 15, 1997, G was

7、registered. In August 1998, it got its first funding in the form of a check for $100,000 written by Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, to “Google Inc.” The trouble was that Google Inc. didnt exist yet. After a rush to get the paperwork lined up, Google was incorporated on September 4

8、. Later that month, Page and Brin moved into the garage (车库) of friend Susan Wojcicki (now the CEO of YouTube), and received further investment from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, among others. Early in 1999, Page and Brin attempted to sell Google to Excite, at the time the No. 2 search engine behind Ya

9、hoo, for one million dollars. However, even after the pair had been talked down to $750,000, Excite CEO George Bell rejected them. Page and Brin had also reportedly attempted to sell their technology to early search engines Altavista and Yahoo in 1998 but to no avail (毫无成果). With no buyer in sight,

10、Google started hiring engineers and moved to an office in California in March 1999. In 2001, Eric Schmidt was hired first as chairman and then CEO, leaving Page and Brin to continue developing Googles products and technologies respectively (各自地). By the end of its first decade, Google had effectivel

11、y won the search engine wars.（选自TheGuardian）1. According to the article, the Google company was officially founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in _. A. August 1996B. September 1997C. September 1998D. March 19992. Paragraphs 4 to 6 mainly talk about _. A. what motivated Page to launch the “BackRub”

12、 projectB. how the “BackRub” project led to the founding of GoogleC. how the PageRank algorithm workedD. how Brin joined Page in carrying out the “BackRub” project3. According to the article, who did NOT make an investment in Google? Andy Bechtolsheim. Susan Wojcicki. Jeff Bezos. George Bell. A. B.

13、C. D. 4. According to the article, what can we learn about Larry Page and Sergey Brin? A. They first met each other when studying at Stanford.B. They found their first encounter rather unpleasant.C. They got financial support from Stanford to work on the ranking system.D. They had no intention of ru

14、nning a business initially.译文：在1995年夏季，一位名叫谢尔盖布林（Sergey Brin）的二年级研究生正在对潜在的学生进行斯坦福大学的访问。密歇根大学的工程学毕业生拉里佩奇是校园里的一员。佩奇谈到这次相遇时说：“我以为他很讨厌。” “他对事情真的有很强烈的看法，我想我也是。”布林说：“我们俩都感到讨厌。” “但是我们开玩笑地说了一点。显然，我们花了很多时间互相交谈”当时的网络技术意味着人们仅通过阅读代码即可知道链接到网页的位置。但是，要获得链接到的每个页面的完整列表，他们需要检查互联网上的所有其他网站。Page的“ BackRub”项目旨在限定这些反向链接。这

15、是一项复杂的任务，不仅需要大量的计算资源，而且还需要极其复杂的数学，这正是布奇诞生的初衷。在1996年，Page和Brin提出了PageRank算法（一种排名系统），这将是一个突破性的想法。该算法的设计目的是赋予来自更具权威性（权威性）页面的链接更多的权重。一个网站的反向链接越多，它成为一个好来源的可能性就越大。网络越发展，BackRub越好。1996年8月，BackRub改名为Google，使用的是“ googol”一词，意为“ 10100”。第一个版本出现在斯坦福首页上，该页面使用Page和Brin拼凑而成的七拼八凑计算机来运行。该系统成功地使用户能够搜索数据库中存储的所有2400万页。1

16、997年9月15日，G进行了注册。 1998年8月，它以由Sun Microsystems的联合创始人安迪贝托尔斯海姆写给“ Google Inc.”的10万美元支票的形式获得了第一笔资金。问题是Google Inc.还不存在。在急于整理文件之后，Google于9月4日成立。Page和Brin搬进朋友Susan Wojcicki（现为YouTube的首席执行官）的车库，并从Amazon创始人那里获得了进一步的投资。杰夫贝佐斯（Jeff Bezos）等。1999年初，Page和Brin试图以100万美元的价格将Google卖给Excite，当时Excite是仅次于Yahoo的第二大搜索引擎。然而

17、，即使这对夫妇的价格降低到75万美元，Excite首席执行官乔治贝尔还是拒绝了他们。据报道，Page和Brin曾于1998年试图将其技术出售给早期搜索引擎Altavista和Yahoo，但无济于事。在看不到买家的情况下，谷歌开始聘用工程师，并于1999年3月搬到加利福尼亚的一家办公室。2001年，埃里克施密特被首先聘为董事长兼首席执行官，离开佩奇和布林分别继续开发谷歌的产品和技术。 ）。到第一个十年的末期，Google有效地赢得了搜索引擎大战。单词：1. encounter n. ( with) an occasion where you meet sb., or do sth. with sb. you do not know 相遇，邂逅e.g. My first encounter with Alice was back in 2015. 2. register v. ( for) to put your name, or that of sb.