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  3. Believe it or not, no one can afford to deny or ignore the tiny sparkle of

Believe it or not, no one can afford to deny or ignore the tiny sparkle of

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问题      Believe it or not, no one can afford to deny or ignore the tiny sparkle of an idea, especially in a/an 【C1】______ of knowledge explosion. Like any other aspects of the computer age, Yahoo began as an idea, 【C2】______ into a hobby and lately has turned into a full-time passion. The two developers of Yahoo, David Filo and Jerry Yang, Ph. D candidates 【C3】______ Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in the United States, started their 【C4】______ in April 1994 as a way to keep 【C5】______ of their personal interest on the Internet. Before long they found that their homebrewed lists were becoming too long and 【C6】______ . And gradually they began to spend more and more time on Yahoo.
     During the year of 1994, they 【C7】______ Yahoo into a customized database designed to 【C8】______ the needs of the thousands of users that began to use the service through the closely 【C9】______ Internet community. They developed customized software to help them 【C10】______ locate, identify and edit material 【C11】______ on the Internet. The name Yahoo is 【C12】______ to stand for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle", but David Filo and Jerry Yang insist that they select the 【C13】______ because they considered themselves yahoos. Yahoo itself first 【C14】______ on Yang’s workstation, "akebono", while the search engine was 【C15】______ on Filo’s computer, "Konishiki".
     In early 1995 Marc Andersen, one of the 【C16】______ of Netscape Communication in Mountain View, California, invited Filo and Yang to move their files 【C17】______ to larger computers 【C18】______ at Netscape. As a result Stanford’s computer network returned to 【C19】______ and both parties benefited from this issue. Today, Yahoo 【C20】______ organized information on tens of thousands of computers linked to the web. [br] 【C1】
选项 A、time
B、era
C、phase
D、epoch
答案 B
解析 名词搭配题。句意为：没有人敢忽略一点思想的火花，尤其是在这样一个知识爆炸的时代。选项A time表示时间和次数，只有复数times才可以用来指一个时代；选项C phase意思是“阶段，时期”，指事物发展的某个显著阶段；选项D epoch表示“新纪元，历史的一段”，尤指被认为值得注意的那部分，值得纪念的事件的重要时期。选项B era意思是“时代”，尤其用来指以特殊环境、特殊事件或特殊人物为标志的一段时间，合乎本题的意思。
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