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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 fu

Like many other aspects of the computer age, Yahoo began as an idea, 【C1】______ into a hobby and lately has 【C2】______ into a fu

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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.
【C6】______
选项 A、unwieldy
B、tough
C、tamable
D、invaluable
答案A
解析 unwieldy(因体积庞大或笨重而)不灵便的，难操作的；tough粗糙的；tamable可驯服的；invaluable无价的。
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