自考试卷：英语科技文选自考试题及答案.docVIP

试卷第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 1 页 姓名：_ 姓名：________________ 班级：________________ 学号：________________ 密封 线 自考试卷：英语科技文选自考试题及答案 考试时间：120分钟 考试总分：100分 题号 一 二 三 四 五 总分 分数 遵守考场纪律，维护知识尊严，杜绝违纪行为，确保考试结果公正。 I. Directions: Read through the following passages. Choose the best answer and blacken the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET. (20%)(A)The world’s largest social network will shift its corporate headquarters starting this summer to a 57-acre campus with 1 million square f.eet of office space in Menlo Park, California, making its second move in less than two years. The move, which will see Facebook swap its Palo Alto address for a home base in a largely undeveloped area near the entrance to a busy Bay Area bridge, will give the company much-needed room to grow, even if the new location lacks some of the glamour of other corporate real estate deals. Google Inc, which is increasingly vying with Facebook for engineering talent, announced on Tuesday that it had leased an iconic building for its staff in Santa Monica. Googles headquarters is in Mountain View, California. Facebook executives said the company, which turned seven on Friday, is seeking the space beyond its nearby Palo Alto base to contain its explosive expansion. The company has seen its payroll swell by about 50 percent annually in past years to about 2,000 now, a pace it expects to sustain in coming years. Its new Menlo Park location can house about 3,600 people, executives said. Facebook leased the campus -- the former headquarters of Sun Microsystems which Oracle Corp took over in 2010 -- and will begin moving in June or July. The site, a cluster of nine blockish buildings and wide, open spaces wedged between the freeway and the San Francisco Bay, is known locally as “Sun Quentin” for what insiders say is a passing