问题 选择题

---John has made great progress in the last two months.

--- _________, and _________.

A.So he has; so you have

B.So he has; so have you

C.So has he; so have you

D.So has he; so you have

答案

答案:B

题目分析:在“so+助动词/be动词/情态动词+主语”的倒装结构中,表示前面所述的肯定情况也适合于后者。例如:

I'm good at English, and so is my sister. 我英语学得好,我妹妹学得也好。

注意:在这一结构中的主语可以是名词或人称代词,但它和上文的主语不是同一个“人”或“物”。例如:

—She bought a computer.她买了一台电脑。

—So did I.我也买了一台。

另外,这一结构的否定式是“neither/nor+助动词/be动词/情态动词+主语”。例如:

—He doesn't know Lin Tao's address. 他不知道林涛的地址。

在“so+主语+助动词/be动词/情态动词”结构中,so用于对前面事实的肯定,有“的确如此”之意。例如:

—He will go to Hangzhou for a holiday tomorrow.他明天要去杭州度假。

—So he will.的确如此。

注意:这一结构中的主语和上文中的主语通常是同一个“人”或“物”。又如:

—It's her turn now.现在轮到她了。

—So it is!是呀!

在“主语+do(动词某种形式)+so”结构中,so用以避免重复前文提到的情况。例如:

the teacher asked us to read the text and we did so.老师让我们读这篇课文,我们就读了。

点评:本题难度适中。so的用法是高中阶段的重难点之一,考生很容易混淆,需要平时多练习。把so放在特定的语言环境下去进行考查,还需要考生理解该题的语境。

即学即练:We can speak Chinese, ______.

A. so can Kate        B. so Katecan C. Katecan so         D. so Katecan,too

解析:A。句意:我们会讲汉语,凯特也会。

问答题

One thing that distinguishes the online world from the real one is that it is very easy to find things. To find a copy of The Economist in print, one has to go to a newsstand, which may or may not carry it. Finding it online, though, is a different proposition. Just go to Google, type it in" economist" and you will be instantly directed to economist.com. (46) Indeed, until Google, now the world’s most popular search engine, came on to the scene in September 1998, searching online was a hit-or-miss affair.

Google was vastly better than anything that had come before: so much better, in fact, that it changed the way many people use the web. (47) Almost overnight, it made the web far more useful, particularly for non-specialist users, many of whom regard Google as the Internet’s front door. It’s now a worldwide phenomenon. Not only has it made the Internet into an extremely fast and valuable research tool, it’s become a common word and has even created a new verb" to google." (48)The recent fuss over Google’s stock market flotation obscures its far wider social significance: few technologies, after all, are so influential that their names have become a household verb such as the cloning technology creates the verb" to clone".

Google began in 1998 as an academic research project by Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, who were then graduate students at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. It was not the first search engine, of course. (49) Existing search engines were able to scan a large portion of the web, build an index, and then find pages that matched particular words, but were less good at presenting those pages, which might number in the hundreds of thousands, in a useful way.

Mr. Brin’s and Mr. Page’s accomplishment was to devise a way to sort the results by determining which pages were likely to be most relevant. They did so by using a mathematical program, called PageRank. (50) This program is at the heart of Google’s success, distinguishing it from all search engines and accounting for its apparently magical ability to find the most useful web pages. With this powerful ability. Google distinguished itself from among all the search engines and became an established standing research tool in the online world.

(47) Almost overnight, it made the web far more useful, particularly for non-specialist users, many of whom regard Google as the Internet’s front door.

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