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"Google is not a conventional company.We

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问题 "Google is not a conventional company.We do not I to become one,"wrote Larry Page and Sergey Brin,the search firm's founders,in a letter to investors ahead ofits stockmarket flotation in 2004.Since then,Google has bumished its reputation 2 0ne ofthe quirkiest companies on the planet.This year alone it has 3 eyebrows by taking a stake in a wind-energy project off the east coast ofAmerica and by testing self-driving cars,which have already_4 0ver 140,000 miles（225,OOOkm）on the country's roads.Google has been able to 5 such flights of fancy 6 its amazingly successful online-search business.This has 7 handsome returns for the firm's investors,who have seen the company 8 itselfin the space ofa mere 12 years from a tiny start-up into a behemoth with a$180 billion market capitalisation that sprawls 9 a vast headquarters in Silicon Valley known as the Googleplex.Google 10 stretches across the web like a giant spider,with a leg in everything from online search and e-mail to social networking and web-based software applications,or apps.All this has turned Google into a force to be reckoned with.11 now the champion of the unorthodox is faced with two conventional business challenges.The first 12 placating regulators,who fret that it may be abusing its considerable 13.On November 30th the European Union 14 a formal investigation into claims that Google has been 15 search results to give an unfair advantage to its own services-a charge the firm vigorously 16.The other challenge facing Google is how to find new sources of growth.17 all the experiments it has launched,the firm is still heavily dependent on search-related advertising.Ironically,investors'biggest worry is that Google will end 18 like Microsoft,which has 19 to find big new sources of 20 and profit to replace those from its two ageing ponies,the Windows operating system and the Omce suite of business software.That explains why Google's share price has stagnated.7选？A.createdB.developedC.discoveredD.produced
选项 A.created
B.developed
C.discovered
D.produced
答案 D
解析 动词辨析题。空格处所在句子为This has handsome returns for the firm's investors，这里表达的意思是：该业务已为投资者丰厚的回报。空格处应填人能表示“带来、产生”这一含义的词语，故D项为正确选项。【干扰排除】A项created“创造”，多用于强调该物体是原创或非同一般，但这里显然与文意不符，故排除；B项developed“发展；开发”，通常用于商业方面的上下文中，表示想出并生产新产品、开发新产品，故排除；C项discovered指发现了原来存在但尚未被人挖掘或认识的事物，亦不符合文意，故排除。
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