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A
Top 3 roller
coasters(
过山车
)
Top Thrill Dragster
Location
(
地点
)
：
O
hio
，
America
Top S
peed(
最高的速度
)
：
190km/h
Status(
状态
)
：
It is open now.
Fun Facts
：
Most
roller coasters start going
up
，
but this one starts
running down
Kingda Ka
Locat
ion(
地点
)
：
New Jersey
，
America
Top Speed(
最高的速度
)<
/p>
：
206km/h
Status(
状态
)
：
It
is open now.
Fun
Facts
：
Kingda Ka got its name
from a Bengal tiger lives next to
is
the tallest roller coaster in the world.
Formula Rossa
Lo
cation(
地点
)
：
Abu Dhabi
，
the United
Arab Emirates
Top Speed(
最高的速
度
)
：
240km/h
Status(
状态
)
：<
/p>
It is open now.
Fun
Facts
：
Because it is so
fast
，
people in the front
must wear glasses.
( C ) Thrill
Dragster is in________
．
A
．
New Jersey
B
．
Abu Dhabi
C
．
Ohio
( B ) Ka can run at the top speed
of________km/h.
A
．
190
B
．
206
C
．
240
( C ) Ka's
name came from a________
．
1
A
．
palace
B
．
person
C
．
tiger
( A )
must wear________when they sit in the front of the
Formula Rossa.
A
．
glasses
B
．
scarves
C
．
hats
( C ) of
the following is TRUE?
A
．
The tallest
roller coaster in the world is in Canada.
B
．
Top Thrill
Dragster runs as fast as Formula Rossa.
C
．
If you go to
New Jersey
，
you can take
Kingda Ka for fun.
B
How
long
are
you
willing
to
wait
for
a
webpage
to
open
before
you
start
to
lose
your
patience? Half a minute? A few seconds?
Google engineers have discovered that even
400
milliseconds
—
as
short
as
the
blink
of
an
eye
—
is
too
long
for
most
Internet
users.
A millisecond is
one thousandth of a second. People hardly notice
such a small
time
difference,
but
it
does
cause
them
to
stop
searching,
reported
The
New
York
Times.
question,
nobody
likes
to
wait,
said
Arvind
Jain,
a
Google
engineer,
millisecond
matters.
Nowadays, millions of
smart-phones and computers are continually
gathering and
sending out information.
With so many people downloading maps, sports
videos, news
and
restaurant
suggestions,
you
can
get
digital
jams
Meanwhile,
users
are
expecting faster and faster service.
Google found that if one website is 250
milliseconds slower than another website,
people will visit it less often. This
is why technology companies are now competing
to be the fastest. Google said people
do expect different things from different
websites because they realize not all
loading times are the same.
For
example,
a
person
will
be
more
patient
waiting
for
a
video
to
load
than
for
a
search
result.
Even so, four out of
five online users will click away if a video takes
too long to
load. This makes it
difficult for video websites to choose between the
quality of
pictures and fast loading
times.
Trying to get a higher speed has
always been part. of the history of the Internet.
2
In the 1990s,
when the World Wide Web first started to become
popular, it was very
crowded and slow;
people called it the
fight the problem
with new inventions. They laid a lot of fiber
optic cables(
光缆
)
for
sending
in
high-speed;
they
improved
software
so
it
would
work
more
smoothly;
they
placed
computer
servers
all
around
the
world
to
be
nearer
to
users;
all
this
increased
speed.
Nowadays we
can enjoy
much faster
Internet. Famous search engines such as Google and
Microsoft's
Bing
usually
find
search
results
in
less
than
a
second.
However,
in
order
to
meet
the
requirement
of
Internet
users,
these
tycoons
should
never
stop
their
steps.
26. Which of the following statements
is true according to the passage?
A.
The quality of pictures comes first for video
websites.
B. Google is 250 milliseconds
slower than other websites.
C.
Microsoft's Bing is the fastest engine in the
world now.
D. People are more likely to
wait for loading films than maps.
27. The report from The New York Times
suggests that .
A. a
millisecond is one thousandth of a second
B. 400 milliseconds is not so long for
most Internet users
C. a millisecond
has nothing to do with the Internet speed
D. a millisecond really makes a
difference to Internet users
28. The engineers did something to
improve the speed, including .
①
CD making software work
more smoothly
②
laying a
number of fiber optic cables inside
③
placing computer servers
throughout the world
④
developing the quality of pictures on the Internet
A.
①②③
B.
②③④
C.
①③④
D.
①②④
29. What does
the underlined sentence mean?
A.
Internet users are willing to see more search
engines set up.
B. Google and
Microsoft's Bing should help find the searching
results.
C. These companies should mind
their steps, or they will break down soon.
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