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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.
Google is eye-catching due to its______.
选项 A、distinctiveness
B、infiniteness
C、selfishness
D、aggressiveness
答案A
解析 这是一道细节题，测试考生对重点词语引导的句子的重视和理解程度，以及对句中并列平行结构的识别和理解。本题的答案信息来源在第三段的尾句，该句由“beyond”一词引导，其大意是：“除此之外，Google引起人们兴趣的原因与遮遮掩掩的独裁和好莱坞名人引起人们兴趣的原因是相同的——原因在于不透明、花哨以及其自身”。由此可以推断本题的正确选项是A“distinctiveness”(独特性)，因为只有“distinctiveness”这个词才能准确表达原文“itself”一词所传达的含义。考生在阅读时应注意常考的重点词语(例如本句中的“beyond”一词)，并且注意对并列平行结构的理解。
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