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Directions: Read the following passage. Choose the best word for each numbered blank and mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square bracket on ANSWER SHEET I.

Like many other aspects of the computer age, Yahoo began as an idea, 21 into a hobby and lately has 22 into a full-time passion. The two developers of Yahoo, David Filo and Jerry Yang, Ph. D candidates 23 Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, started their guide in April 1994 as a way to keep 24 of their personal interest on the Internet. Before long they 25 that their homebrewed lists were becoming too long and 26 Gradually they began to spend more and more time on Yahoo.

During 1994, they 27 yahoo into a customized database designed to 28 the needs of the thousands of users 29 began to use the service through the closely 30 Internet community. They developed customized software to help them 31 locate, identify and edit material 32 on the Internet. The name Yahoo is 33 to stand for “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Orale”，but Filo and Yang insist they selected the 34 because they considered themselves Yahoos. Yahoo itself first 35 on Yang’s workstation, “akebono”，while the search engine was 36 on Filo’s computer，“ Konishiki .

In early 1995 Marc Andersen, co-founder of Netscape Communication in Mountain View, California, invited Filo and Yang to move their files 37 to larger computers 38 at Netscape.

As a result Stanford’s computer network returned to 39 ，and both parties benefited. Today, Yahoo 40 organized information on tens of thousands of computers linked to the web.

21. A. became B. grew C. turn D. intend

22. A. made B. saw C. looked D. turned

23. A. in B. on C. about D. for

24. A. touch B. contact C. track D. record

25. A. founded B. found C. argued D. reported

26. A. unwieldy B. tough C. tamable D. invaluable

27. A. exchanged B. shank C. sold D. converted

28. A. explain B. serve C. discover D. evaluate

29. A. which B. that C. actually D. eagerly

30. A. relative B. interactive C. bound D. contacted

31. A. fluently B. efficiently C. exactly D. actually

32. A. transmitted B. purchased C. sold D. stored

33. A. about B. bound C. going D. supposed

34. A. fable B. model C. name D. brand

35. A. supported B. resided C. lived D. launched

36. A. connected B. lodged C. introduced D. linked

37. A. over B. away C. inside D. beneath

38. A. housed B. caught C. hosed D. hidden

39. A. average B. normal C. ordinary D. equal

40. A. attains B. detains C. maintains D. contains

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