必修第二册 UNIT 3　THE INTERNET-（课时作业）【导学教程】2024新教材新高考英语新编大一轮总复习（人教版）

[对应学生用书P397] Ⅰ.阅读理解 A (2022·南京质检)On the summer of 1995，a second­year graduate student named Sergey Brin was giving a tour of Stanford University to prospective students.Larry Page，an engineering graduate from the University of Michigan，was one of those being shown around the campus. “We both found each other obnoxious and annoying with strong opinions about things，” said Brin.“But we said it a little bit jokingly.Obviously，we spent a lot of time talking to each other，so there was something there.” The technology of the web at the time meant that people could tell where a webpage linked to just by reading its code.However，to get a complete list of every page to which it linked，they needed to check every other website on the Internet. Page's，“BackRub” project aimed to qualify these backlinks (反向链接).It was a complex task that not only demanded vast computing resources，but also required extremely complex mathematics，which was where the math genius Brin came in. Later，Page and Brin came up with the PageRank algorithm—a ranking system which would prove to be a breakthrough idea.And then，BackRub became Google，a play on the term “googol”，meaning “10100”．The system successfully enabled users to search all 24 million pages stored in its database. On September 15，1997，Google.com was registered.In August 1998，it got its first funding in the form of a check for $100，000 written by Andy Bechtolsheim，co­founder of Sun Microsystems，to“Google Inc”．But still there were troubles.Later that month，Page and Brin moved into the garage (车库) of friend Susan Wojcicki (now the CEO of YouTube)，and received further investment from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos，among others. Early in 1999，Page and Brin attempted to sell Google to Excite，at the time the No.2 search engine behind Yahoo，for one million dollars.However，even after the pair had been talked down to $750，000，Excite CEO George Bell rejected them.With no buyer in sight，Google started hiring engineers and moved to an office in California in