The case sets up a legal battle that could end in Google being fined about $6 billion, or 10 percent of its annual revenue, and force the Mountain View, California, company to check is system carefully for recommending websites in Europe.
In the meantime, the accusations are likely to paint an unflattering (直白的)picture of Google, which accepted “don’t be evil” as its motto a few years after CEO Larry Page and his Stanford University classmate Sergey Brin founded the company in a rented Silicon Valley garage in 1998.
“Expect some of the criticism to be tough,” Walker wrote Tuesday
“A complaint challenging Google’s conduct would represent a significant step towards ending Google’s anti-competitive practices, which have harmed innovation and consumer choice,” said Thomas Vinje, legal counsel for FairSearch Europe, a group that has been urging regulators to monitor Google.
Google has offered to make compromises on three previous occasions in an attempt to settle Europe’s nearly 5-year-old antirust inquiry, only to have the negotiations break up. The efforts to reach an agreement occurred under Vestager’s predecessor, Joaquin Almunia, who stepped down late last year.
European regulators, like their US peers, have been looking into complaints that Google improperly highlights its own services in its search results at the expense of its opponents. Much of the complaint may focus on how Google displays its results in response to requests made by people who appear to be shopping online, Walker wrote. 59. Which of the following statement is TRUE according to the passage? A. European regulators have accused Google of breaking antitrust laws.
B. The statement of objections to Google’s business practices was drawn up by Walker. C. European regulators think Google uses Android Software to hold its advantage. D. Google made comments on Walker’s report sent to its employees. 60. We can infer from the passage_____.
A. Google will be fined $6 billion due to its illegal act B. Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google in 1998 C. Walker assumed the complaints would be easy to handle D. regulators in the US also looked into Google’s case. 61. What’s the best title of this passage?
A. Google is Facing Antitrust complaints in Europe. B. Is Google a Fading Force? C. Google is Virtually Challenged.
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D. Google is Controlling Search Market.
C
My younger son recently graduated from high school and has expressed an interest in becoming a teacher. My mother was a teacher and enjoyed it, but that was before a perfectly fine system of public education was taken over and ruined. Today’s teachers spend most of their time teaching children how to take tests.
When I was a kid, many politicians in the US kept their noses out of education. This was a fine arrangement, and worked well for all concerned, especially the children, who, like all living things, grow best in the loosened soil of relaxed oversight(监管). With the government came experts on children, and with them came the fact that learning turned from a natural joy to the forced and anxious it is today.
In my memory of the fourth grade, during a break between classes, I was pushed to the ground by Ricky Smith. Ricky wasn’t a bully. I had pushed him down the day before, so this was a matter of simple justice. I landed on my chin(下巴)and suffered a deep cut. My language teacher, Mrs. Conley took me to the school nurse, Mrs. Widener, who handed me a towel so the blood wouldn’t fall on the floor. I noticed her chief concern was for the doorkeeper of my school, a priority I accepted without question.
“Let’s go see Dr. Kirtley,” she said, taking me by the hand and walking me the four blocks to his office. We sat in the waiting room, Mrs. Widener skimming the Saturday Evening Post and I, the Highlights magazine, while leaking blood. After a time, Dr. Kirtley called us back to the examination room, studied my chin, threaded a needle, and closed my wound with six tight stitches (缝针). He topped it off with a bandage, let me pick out a toy from top drawer of his desk, and sent us on our way. No forms were filled out, no money exchanged, and no report filed.
On the way back to school, it being lunchtime, Mrs. Widener and I stopped at the Coffee Cup restaurant on the south side of the town square, and had hamburgers, French fries, and a Coke. I though of my classmates back at school eating spinach(菠菜)and lima beans and made a mental note to thank Ricky Smith, whose passion for justice had made this blessing possible. I returned to Mrs. Conley’s room as a conquering hero. a wounded old soldier back from the frontline.
That evening my mother noticed the bandage on my chin and asked what had happened. I had not yet learned to stretch out a good story, so my report was brief. “Ricky Smith pushed the and I cut my chin, so Mrs. Widener took me to the doctor’s and I got six stitches.”
“You and Ricky should be more careful,” she advised, and the matter was closed. No call was made to the headmaster. No lawyer was consulted. No threats to sue (起诉) was issued . My injury was accepted—for what it was –the natural consequence of youthful energetic behaviour. I recall this event not because of the stitches. I suffered many
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accidents as a child and was often sewn back together. I only remember it for the unhurried walk to the doctor’s office, the hamburger at the Coffee Cup, and the casual manner with which my injury was tended. I have stayed in close contact with education—my wife is a school librarian—and knows the chaos that would result were such a thing to happen today. Parents would be phoned, an officer and ambulance called, evidence demanded, and fault assigned. Ricky Smith would be forced to temporarily stop attending classes and made to undergo counseling(辅导).
“Now go back to class and try to learn something,” Mrs. Widener told me, after cutting out the stitches. I think of her still , that backward woman, failing to grasp the complexities of modern life. 62. The first two paragraphs imply that______. A. the system of public education is perfect. B. the importance of tests is being ignored C. learning isn’t a pleasant thing any more
D. education can make a difference to politics somehow. 63. How did Mrs. Widener react to the author’s deep cut? A. She took , me to the school nurse immediately. B. She handled it the moment the author was sent to her. C. She ignored me but cared about the doorkeeper. D. She accepted it as a common accident.
64. The author thought of himself as “a conquering hero” (in the fifth paragraph) probably because the_____. A. defeated a bully with the help of Ricky Smith B. thought the incident was a blessing in disguise. C. enjoyed a free lunch at school that day D. was wounded due to his fight for justice.
65. According to the passage, we can conclude that_____.
A. some teachers and parents take incidents in schools too seriously now B. Mrs. Widener was too conservative to accept new ideas. C. teachers now are more considerate to students than before. D. parents pay more attention to children’s safety than schooling now.
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By now, everyone probably knows that helicopter parenting is a style of parenting that perhaps never should have lifted off because it does harm to kids.
According to a Brigham Young University study published in the journal Emerging Adulthood, when you do things for your children that they should be doing on their own, it can lower their self-worth. Todd Deutsch, a psychotherapist in Los Angels, agrees with the study’s conclusions. “The children helicopter parents are bringing into this world are unable to equip themselves with the tools to manage life’s problems and potentially acquire coping tools that are maladaptive(适应不良的) such as drug use, living off parents, failure to hold a job,” says Deutsch.
So if you’re worried that you might be a helicopter parent, ask yourself the following questions. If you answer yes to them ,you may be taking your kid on a ride that will be filled with future financial troubles.
Do you interfere a lot with your kid’s college education? It’s one thing to encourage your kid to study hard but it’s another to manage his or her schedule and try to solve all of your kid’s problems. “I’ve had parents call me when their kid’s name isn’t in their local newspaper for making the dean’s list, even though their kid asked me not to publish his name,” says Ritter Hoy, who works in university communications at Miami University, in Oxford. Ohio. Hoy also hears a lot about parents calling professors to complain abut grades. Researchers concluded that the more parents micromanage their kid’s life, the less happy their kid is likely to be.
After college, are you making things too easy for your kid? Your college graduate doesn’t have a job and needs a place to stay. Of course, he or she is going to come to home base. That’s perfectly understandable. But you don’t want things to return to pre-college days, with your graduate living in the bedroom or on the sofa, playing video games all day. The biggest barrier to kids’ being financially independent is parents supporting their kids. Kids, including adult ones, know they don’t have to make money of their own because their parents have their backs.
Are you lending or giving your adult kid money on a regular basis? Obviously, in the beginning of his or her adulthood, or even well into their adulthood, there’ll be occasions when your son or daughter might be struggling, and “it may make sense to give them a on-time gift to help them get back on their feet, but you don’t want to take things too far,” says Grant Moore, a financial advisor at Savant Capital Management.
How Helicopter parenting(66)____▲___Your Children Introduction Helicopter parenting is harmful to kids in that it can lower their self-worth, lead to them not being (67)___▲____ with problem-solving skills in life and (68)____▲____improper coping tools.
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