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  3. Google must be the most ambitious company in the world. Its stated goal, "to organize the world’s information and make it univer

Google must be the most ambitious company in the world. Its stated goal, "to organize the world’s information and make it univer

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问题     Google must be the most ambitious company in the world. Its stated goal, "to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful," deliberately omits the word "web" to indicate that the company is reaching for absolutely all information everywhere and in every form. From books to health records and videos, from your friendships to your click patterns and physical location, Google wants to know. To some people this sounds uplifting, with promises of free access to knowledge and help in managing our daily lives. To others, it is somewhat like another Big Brother, no less frightening than its totalitarian (极权主义的) ancestors for being in the private information.
    Randall Stross, a journalist at the New York Times, does a good job of analyzing this unbounded ambition in his book "Planet Google". One chapter is about the huge data centers that Google is building with a view to storing all that information, another about the sets of rules at the heart of its web search and advertising technology, another about its approach to information bound in books, its vision for geographical information and so forth. He is at his best when explaining how Google’ s mission casually but fatally smashes into long-existing institutions such as, say, copyright law or privacy norms.
    And yet, it’s puzzling that he mostly omits the most fascinating component of Google, its people. Google is what it is because of its two founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, who see themselves as kindly elites and embody the limitless optimism about science, technology and human nature that is native to Silicon Valley. The world is perfectible, and they are the ones who will do much more of the perfecting, provided you let them.
    Brin and Page set out to create a company and an entire culture in their image. From the start, they professed that they would innovate as much in managing — rewarding, feeding, motivating, entertaining and even transporting (via Wi-Fi-enabled free shuttle buses) their employees — as they do in Internet technology. If Google is in danger of becoming a caricature (讽刺画), this is first apparent here — in the over-engineered day-care centers, the Shiatsu massages and kombucha teas (康普茶). In reality Googlers are as prone to power struggle and office politics as anyone else.
    None of that makes it into Mr. Stross’ account, which at times reads like a diligent summary of news articles. At those moments, "Planet Google" takes a risk similar to trying to board a speeding train: the Google story changes so fast that no book can stay up to date for long. Even so, a sober description of this moment in Google’s quest is welcome. Especially since Google fully expects, as its chief executive, Eric Schmidt, says at the end of the book, to take 300 years completing it.
According to the passage, Sergey Brin and Larry Page______.
选项 A、are highlighted in Randall Stross’ book
B、bring Silicon Valley the most advanced technology
C、are pioneers in the technology industry
D、never stop trying to make the world better
答案D
解析 根据题干中的Sergey Brin and Larry Page将本题出处定位到第三段第二句。该句主要讲Sergey Brin and Larry Page对自己的看法。通过继续阅读发现，下一句话也是在讲述Sergey Brin和Larry Page：世界能够变得更加完美，而他们将会是为这个完美做更多的人，如果你允许他们做的话。由此可推断出，他们一直致力于为世界的完美做贡献，故答案为[D]。[A]与该段首句矛盾，故排除。[B]是针对该段提到的embody…is native to Silicon Valley设的干扰项。文中提到他们认为自己是科技及人文的无限乐观主义的真实体现，而不是技术产业的先锋，故排除[C]。
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