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John Battelle is Silicon Valley’s Bob Woodward. As one of the founders of Wired magazine, he has hung around Google for so long

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问题     John Battelle is Silicon Valley’s Bob Woodward. As one of the founders of Wired magazine, he has hung around Google for so long that he has come to be as close as any outsider can to actually being an insider. Certainly, Google’s founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, and its chief executive, Eric Schmidt, believe that it is safer to talk to Mr. Battelle than not to do so.
    The result is a highly readable account of Google’s astonishing rise—the steepest in corporate history—from its origins in Stanford University to its controversial stockmarket debut and its current str-uggle to become a grown-up company while staying true to its youthfully brash motto, "Don’t be evil. " Mr. Battelle makes the reader warm to Google’s ruling triumvirate—their cleverness and their good intentions—and fear for their future as they take on the world.
    Google is one of the most interesting companies around at the moment. It has a decent shot at displacing Microsoft as the next great near-monopoly of the information age. Its ambition—to organise all the world’s information, not just the information on the world wide web—is epic, and its commercial power is frightening. Beyond this, Google is interesting for the same reason that secretive dictatorships and Hollywood celebrities are interesting—for being opaque, colourful and, simply, itself.
    The book disappoints only when Mr. Battelle begins trying to explain the wider relevance of internet search and its possible future development. There is a lot to say on this subject, but Mr. Battelle is hurried and overly chatty, producing laundry lists of geeky concepts without really having thought any of them through properly. This is not a fatal flaw. Read only the middle chapters, and you have a great book.
According to the text, the author’s attitude toward Mr. Battelle’s work is______.
选项 A、strong disapproval
B、total denial
C、qualified consent
D、enthusiastic support
答案C
解析 本题属于一道中心主旨归纳题，测试考生对全文各个自然段落的整体综合和理解的能力。本文是对Battelle先生的书进行客观的评价。本题的答案信息来源主要来自于第二段首句和尾段尾句，以及尾段首句。第二段首句中的“highly readable”(很强的可读性)以及尾段尾句中的“a great book”(一部好书)，表明作者对Battelle先生所著的书的肯定；尾段首句中的“The book disappoints…"(本书令人失望之处……)表明作者指出此书的美中不足。综上所述，本文作者对Battelle先生的书的态度应该是：肯定中有保留(即客观的态度)。故本题的正确选项是C“qualified consent”(有保留的赞同)。
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