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第四篇：One event that shook the business world in 2006 was the takeover by Internet superpower Google of anextremely popular video-sharing website called YouTube. The $1.65 billion purpose resulted in astonishedreaction in the world’s financial markets. After all, it was a remarkable price to pay for a company that didn’texist two years earlier.It all began in January 2005 at a dinner party in San Francisco. Three former employees of PayPal, acompany that operates an online payment system, were chatting about the difficulty of sharing home videos withfriends online. Videos were difficult to download, and they were often too big to be sent through e-mail. Workingin a garage, Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim, and Taiwan-born Steve Chen developed a website through which shorthomemade videos would be easy to download and to watch online. They named it YouTube, which basicallymeans “your television.” In other words, you can broadcast your own stuff. People began uploading interestingand funny videos to share with others, at no cost. Word about the fun new site began to spread. The site’spopularity took off like a rocket. In less than two years, more than 100 million videos were being viewed eachday on YouTube. Clips ranged from music and comedy stunts to shameless self-promotional messages. Some,such as “Hong Kong Bus Uncle,” which features a loud argument filmed on a cell phone by a bus passenger, haveachieved worldwide fame.As well as personal videos, many clips from movies, TV shows, and advertisements have found their wayonto YouTube. Sneaker giant Nike, for example, has provided video clips to the site. Music recording companiessuch as Warner and EMI have also used the site to promote their music videos, and small companies that can’tafford to advertize on TV have also used YouTube for publicity. With so many users, YouTube’s advertisingpotential is obvious. If Google can figure out how to sell ads to even a fraction of the site’s huge number ofvisitors, it will have been a very good acquisition indeed.
16. How did Google surprise the business world in 2006?
(A) By selling most of its shares on financial markets.
(B) By starting a website for people to share videos.
(C) By paying a high price for a very young company.
(D) By taking more than a billion dollars from YouTube

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答案：C
難度：適中0.429967
統計：A(32),B(87),C(132),D(56),E(0)

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