What is a six-letter word that immediately comes to mind when you need some information on the Internet? You probably thought of Google. But Google wasn’t always the name of the famous search engine. In fact, the original name was BackRub!
BackRub was the name two graduate students gave to the new search engine they developed in 1996. They called it BackRub because the engine used backlinks to measure the popularity of Web sites. Later, they wanted a better name — a name that suggests huge quantities of data. They thought of the word googol. (A googol is a number followed by 100 zeros.) When they checked the Internet registry of names to see if googol was already taken, one of the students misspelled the word by mistake, and that’s how Google was born.
Google is just one example of a name change in the business world. Many other companies have decided to change their names or the names of their products. Here are some more examples:
Jerry Yang and David Filo, two young computer specialists, developed a guide to Internet content in 1994. They called it “Jerry and David’s Guide to World Wide Web.” But they soon realized that this wasn’t a very catchy name, so they searched through a dictionary and found a better one: “Yahoo.”
Sometimes companies change their names because of the popularity of one of their products. In 1962, a young runner named Phil Knight started a company called Blue Ribbon Sports. In 1971, Knight decided to design and manufacture his own brand of shoes. He named the shoes after the Greek goddess of victory — Nike. Nike shoes became so well known that Knight changed the name of the whole company to Nike.
1.According to the text, Google .
A．has been famous since 1996.
B．is a result of a spelling mistake.
C．means a number followed by 100 zeros.
D．is the original name of the search engine,
2.Jerry and David changed the guide’s name to Yahoo because the original name .
A．had been registered
B．had been forgotten
C．was too short
D．was not attractive
3.The company Nike got its name from .
A．its founders
B．its customers
C．its popular products
D．its advanced techniques
书面表达
假定你是李华，你的加拿大笔友Peter给你发了邮件，说他叔叔Smith将乘坐CA988航班于12月12日上午11:30到达你所在的城市开会，同时带来了你想要的巧克力，请你按时接机。你需回一封邮件说明以下问题：
1. 乐意按时接机；
2. 接机方式：在飞机场出口处举一牌子，上面写有Smith is welcome；
3. 接到人后会立即联系Peter。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 开头语已为你写好。
Dear Peter,
How are you doing? _______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
短文改错
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
As we know, when senior students finish their school, most of their reference books are thrown away, which are still in good condition. How a great waste it is!
I suggest that students must recycle all these books. On the one hand, recycling them can save a lot of natural resource, which are used to make textbooks. On the other hand, the notes in the books are helpful to whoever need them.
In fact, recycling textbooks has been increasing popular in such countries like America and Australia. We should learn from them, but make every effort to build energy-saving society. In my opinion, it is of much benefit from our present and our future.
Lesson 37 NCE Book 3
… When I 1. , I could not help noticing that a great many local people got on as well. At the time, this did not 2. . I reflected that there must be a great many people besides myself who wished to 3. this excellent service. … But when the train dawdled at station after station, I began to wonder. It suddenly 4. that this express was not roaring down the line at ninety miles an hour, but barely chugging along at thirty. One hour and seventeen minutes passed and we had not even covered half the distance. I asked a passenger if this was the Westhaven Express, but he had not even heard of it. I determined to 5. as soon as we arrived.
默写：按照背书的内容填空，每空可填不止一个单词。
Lesson 36 NCE Book 3
We are 1. than we used to be. In the nineteenth century, a novelist would bring his story to a conclusion by presenting his readers with 2.—most of them wildly improbable. Readers happily 3. that an obscure maidservant was really the hero’s mother. A long-lost brother, who 4. , was really alive all the time and wickedly plotting to bring about the hero’s downfall. And so on. Modern readers would find 5. totally unacceptable. …
语篇填空，阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答卷标号为1－10的相应位置上。
Creating good habits can be as tough as breaking bad habits. From my experience, one of the most important factors 1. make forming a new habit hard is that a lot of willpower 2. (require), at least in the beginning, and that alone can prevent many people correctly developing their desired habits.
Now instead of just using willpower and reminding 3. (you) to start the new habit each day, why don’t you just link it to an existing one? I have done 4. experience. It started with just 20 pushups (俯卧撑), something easy. So before I showered each day, I would do the pushups. 5. a couple of days, I increased the amount just to make it a bit more challenging.
Gradually, over the course of about 3 months, I’m now doing 100 pushups. And as the habit grew stronger, it got easier to do so 6. (natural). Now I know the habit is pretty much ingrained (根深蒂固), for I feel like something is missing 7. I don’t do this before showering. I found it pretty easy 8. (create) this habit and not much willpower was involved.
I think the key, apart from using an 9. (exist) habit, is to start out with something really easy. Once that starts becoming part of your 10. (day) routine, add on to it.
