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  3. Like many other aspects of the computer age, Yahoo began as an idea,【C1】______into a hobby and lately has【C2】______into a full-t

Like many other aspects of the computer age, Yahoo began as an idea,【C1】______into a hobby and lately has【C2】______into a full-t

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问题     Like many other aspects of the computer age, Yahoo began as an idea,【C1】______into a hobby and lately has【C2】______into a full-time passion. The two developers of Yahoo, David Filo and Jerry Yang, Ph. D candidates【C3】______Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, started their guide in April 1994 as a way to keep【C4】______of their personal interest on the Internet. Before long they【C5】______that their homebrewed lists were becoming too long and【C6】______. Gradually they began to spend more and more time on Yahoo.
    During 1994, they【C7】______yahoo into a customized database designed to【C8】______the needs of the thousands of users【C9】______began to use the service through the closely【C10】______Internet community.
    They developed customized software to help them【C11】______locate, identify and edit material【C12】______on the Internet. The name Yahoo is【C13】______to stand for " Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle" , but Filo and Yang insist they selected the【C14】______because they considered themselves yahoos. Yahoo itself first【C15】______on Yang’s workstation, "akebono" , while the search engine was【C16】______on Filo’s computer, "Konishiki".
    In early 1995 Marc Andersen, co-founder 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. Today, Yahoo【C20】______organized information on tens of thousands of computers linked to the web.
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选项 A、unwieldy
B、tough
C、tamable
D、invaluable
答案A
解析 四个选项中，unwieldy的意思是“(因体积庞大或笨重而)不灵便的，难操作的”；tough的意思是“粗糙的”；tamable的意思是“可驯服的”；invaluable的意思是“无价的”。根据题意应选A项。
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