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问题 Text 4 Alphabet Inc.'s most successful product-the Google search engine-may now be its most problematic.On Tuesday,the European Commission's top antitrust regulator levied a$2.7-billion fine against Alphabet and Google for the way the search engine handles requests for information about products.Specifically,Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said that Google twisted its results to bury links to rival companies'comparison shopping sites while prominently featuring its own service,Google Shopping.Google responded that it's simply trying to give users what they want and denied"favoring ourselves,or any particular site or seller."It has a lot at stake:Google has integrated many different offerings into its search engine,including its mapping and travel services.The principle advanced by Vestager,however,is a good one:Giant online companies shoulcl not be able to take advantage of their dominance in one field to hurt competitors in another.Google's argument is:It integrated Google Shopping,which offers links to products at sites that advertise on Google.into its search engine because that gave users quicker access to the information they were seeking.And in the United States,the key question in antitrust!aw is whether a company's behavior hurts users,not whether it hurts the company's competitors.European regulators focus more on competitors,but they really are two sides of the same coin.If competitors are unfairly closed out,the public can miss out on the very real benefits that vigorous competition provides.At the same time,it's undeniable that the public has welcomed virtual monopolies in search,social media and other services in the Internet era.A large part of the appeal of sites like Facebook and Twitter is that so many people use them.There's a network effect for social media apps in particular-the more people who use the service,the more valuable it becomes to them.Meanwhile,start-ups come out of nowhere to create whole new categories of must-have apps and proclucts online.That means dominant companies have to innovate too,or else they can easily change from today's thing to yesterday's.And often,that innovation involves finding a better way to do something that a competitor is doing.The challenge for regulators is to provide the big companies space to try new things without grossly disrupting the market,closing out other companies and reducing consumer choice,which will ultimately lead to less innovation.A good place to start is by focusing on cases where there is evidence of intentional undermining of competitors-where a dominant company alters the platform it provides not just to feature its own services,but to make it harder to find or use its rivals'.According to Paragraph 2,the author views Google's activity with——.A.sympathyB.uncertaintyC.appreciationD.criticism

选项 A.sympathy
B.uncertainty
C.appreciation
D.criticism

答案 D

解析 [信息锁定]第二段①句明确谷歌受到欧盟处罚的行为“操纵搜索结果”。②随后指出谷歌回应：只是在尽力提供用户所需。③④句表明作者态度：谷歌将许多不同的产品整合进搜索引擎，欧盟罚款所体现的原则“巨型在线公司不能利用自己在某个领域的优势损害另一个领域的竞争者”很有道理。可见．作者赞同欧盟决定，谴责谷歌做法，D.正确。[解题技巧]A.对②句断章取义，将谷歌自身回应“自己只是在努力提供用户所需”曲解为作者对谷歌的同情。B.的陷阱在于，假若考生认为④句however是转折指出谷歌行为有利有弊，则很可能误选此项。但实际上作者是由“暗示谷歌做法错误”转入“肯定欧盟处罚决定”。C.误将④句谷歌“已将许多不同的产品整合进搜索引擎”看作对谷歌的赞赏，但实则是暗示对谷歌做法的不赞同（利用自己“搜索引擎”的优势来获取其他领域的优势）。

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