期中题型专练-任务型阅读- 2023-2024学年牛津译林版九年级英语下册

期中题型专练-任务型阅读- 2023-2024学年 九年级英语下册 牛津译林版 请认真阅读下面短文，并根据短文内容回答问题。 Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the creators of Google, want to change your world. Their goal is to make a search engine that always gives you the right information. “It’s a huge goal, Page says, and it’s a long way off.” But Page and Brin are ready for it. “Imagine if you had a librarian who had the knowledge of Google but could also answer immediately with that knowledge,” says Page. “That would really change the world.” Both Page and Brin come from math and computer science backgrounds. Page’s father and mother were both computer scientists. So Page’s love for computers started early. He remembers surprising his teachers when he turned in a typed homework paper in primary school.          Brin’s father was a math teacher and Brin’s parents moved to the U.S. from Russia in 1979. Brin says they moved to the U.S. to have more chances. Judging from their son’s success, their move certainly was a great decision! Page and Brin were students at Stanford University when they first had the idea of creating their now-famous Google search engine. They began the project in Page’s dorm room(宿舍). Brin says he knew Google would be great when he found that he used it all the time. After collecting money from friends and family, they put Google on the market in 1998. At first, they did 10,000 searches daily. Today they do over 200 million searches—more than 50 percent of all Internet searches. Both men have surprisingly simple lifestyles. They don’t live in large houses or own expensive cars. Page and Brin also work very hard. They say that setting up a restaurant at their company  was one of their best ideas. Why? Because they work such long hours that they end up eating most of their meals there! Page and Brin strongly believe that search engines can greatly improve people’s lives. 1．What is Google? 2．What made Page’s love for computers start more early than other children?