Yahoo! A New Online World

As the Internet has grown, people have turned to it for more and more services. Yahoo.com, the (34)__________most visited Web site, continues to expand to meet ever-growing appetite. Yahoo! was the brainchild of two Stanford University PhD students Jerry Yang and David Filo—in 1994. The two friends created a list of their favorite Web sites and put it on the Internet. As the list grew, Yang and Filo subdivided the Web sites into categories to make it (35) __________ for people to use_. The list became very popular, attracting 100,000 visitors within four months! In April 1996 the company went public, and it immediately started expanding. One of its first moves was to open a site for (36)_________users. Always forward-looking, Yahoo! has sites in over 20 languages and over 30 countries.

In its early years, Yahoo! (37)__________for its search engine. However, the company has worked diligently to become much more. Besides (38)__________popular among Net users, Yahoo! was also popular among investors—at least for its first ten years. In 2008 Yahoo! remained the most-visited site in the world. But to keep its top spot on the Internet, Yahoo! will need (39) __________ improving its search engine and other services.

	А	world	B	Worlds	С	worlds’	D	World’s
	А	easy	B	Easier	С	Easily	D	easiest
	А	Japanese	B	Japan	С	Japaneses	D	Japan’s
	А	had been known	B	Knew	С	was known	D	has known
	А	To be	B	Been	С	Be	D	Being
	А	continued	B	continue	С	to continue	D	continuing

В нашому випадку правильними відповідями є такі:

	A	B	C	D
				X
		X
	x
			X
				X
			X

У тесті контролюється знання таких граматичних явищ:

1) присвійна форма іменника (world’s);

2) ступені порівняння прикметника та прислівника (easier);

3) вживання прикметників-назв національностей (Japanese);

4) видо-часові форми дієслова, пасивний стан (Past Simple Passive) (was known);

5) герундій (being);

6) інфінітив (to continue).