2017高考英语阅读理解c句子成分分析.pdf

A new commodity brings about a highly profitable, fast-growing industry, 状语 urging antitrust (反垄断) regulators to step in to check those 定语 who control its flow. A century ago, the resource in question was oil. Now similar concerns are being raised by the giants ( 巨头) 定语 that deal in data, the oil of the digital age 同位语. The most valuable firms are Google, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft. All look unstoppable. Such situations have led to calls 定语 for the tech giants to be broken up. But size alone is not a crime. The giants’ success has benefited consumers. Few want to live without search engines or a quick delivery. 状语 Far from charging consumers high prices, many of these services are free (users pay, in effect, by handing over yet more data). And the appearance of new-born giants suggests that newcomers can make waves, too. But there is cause for concern. The internet has made data abundant, all-present and far more valuable 宾补, changing the nature of data and competition 状语 . Google initially used the data collected from users to target advertising better 状语 . But recently it has discovered that data can be turned into new services: translation and visual recognition, to be sold to other companies 状 语. Internet companies’ control of data gives them enormous power. So they have a “God’s eye view” of activities in their own markets and beyond 状语. This nature of data makes the antitrust measures of the past 宾语 less useful. Breaking up firms like Google into five small ones would not stop remaking themselves: in time, one of them would become great again. A rethink is required—and as a new approach starts to become apparent, two ideas stand out. The first is 表语 that antitrust authorities need to move from the industrial age into the 21st century. Whe