2011年广东省肇庆市中考英语真题及答案
六、短文填空(本题共10分,每小题1分)
根据短文意思,在答题卡上的相应位置写出一个恰当的单词,使句子通顺、完整。
“How many common English words were invented by Shakespeare?” How long did 41 take people to find the answer to this question 15 years ago? And now? You can google it 42_ find the answer immediately!
Larry Page and Sergey Brin met in 1995, 43 they were both studying computer science at a university. They dreamed of producing something that could answer 44 questions in seconds. They decided to make a better and faster search engine(搜索引擎) 45 January 1996. At that time 46 would give them money for their project, so they had to borrow money from family and friends. Soon they started their own company. Its name Google comes from math. A ‘google’ is 47 very high number —1 followed by a hundred zeros.
The google search engine was soon used by thousands of people worldwide 48 it was fast, easy and correct. By 2002 it became the 49 (big) search engine on the Internet. Google hopes that in the future all the world’s information 50 be put on the Internet, so that everybody can find everything.