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"I’m a total geek all around," says Angela Byron, a 27-year-old computer programmer who has just graduated from Nova Scotia Comm

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问题     "I’m a total geek all around," says Angela Byron, a 27-year-old computer programmer who has just graduated from Nova Scotia Community College. And yet, like many other students, she "never had the confidence" to approach any of the various open-source software communities on the internet-distributed teams of volunteers who collaborate to build software that is then made freely available. But thanks to Google, the world’s most popular search engine and one of the biggest proponents of open-source software, Ms. Byron spent the summer contributing code to Drupal, an open-source project that automates the management of websites. "It’s awesome," she says.
    Ms. Byron is one of 419 students (out of 8,744 who applied) who were accepted for Google’s "summer of code". While it sounds like a hyper-nerdy summer camp, the students neither went to Google’s campus in Mountain View, California, nor to wherever their mentors at the 41 participating open-source projects happened to be located. Instead, Google acted as a matchmaker and sponsor. Each of the participating open-source projects received $500 for every student it took on; and each student received $4,500 ($500 right away, and $4,000 on completion of their work). Oh, and a T-shirt.
    All of this is the idea of Chris DiBona, Google’s open-source boss, who was brainstorming with Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google’s founders, last year. They realised that a lot of programming talent goes to waste every summer because students take summer jobs flipping burgers to make money, and let their coding skills degrade. "We want to make it better for students in the summer," says Mr. DiBona, adding that it also helps the open-source community and thus, indirectly, Google, which uses lots of open-source software behind the scenes. Plus, says Mr. DiBona, "it does become an opportunity for recruiting. "
    Elliot Cohen, a student at Berkeley, spent his summer writing a "Bayesian network toolbox" for Python, an open-source programming language. "I’m a pretty big fan of Google," he says. He has an interview scheduled with Microsoft, but "Google is the only big company that I would work at," he says. And if that doesn’t work out, he now knows people in the open-source community, "and it’s a lot less intimidating. "
Elliot Cohen is mentioned in the text so as to______.
选项 A、illustrate the indirect effect of "summer of code" on Google’s recruitment
B、indicate the academic level of Berkeley, USA
C、clarify Elliot Cohen’s summer experience in writing network toolbox
D、lay emphasis on the fact that university students are big fans of Google
答案A
解析 本题属于一道中心主旨题型，测试考生对全文中心主旨，尤其是段落之间关系的把握和理解。本题的答案信息来源在尾段和倒数第二段的尾句。作者在倒数第二段借DiBona先生之口提出一个论点，然后在尾段利用Elliot Cohen这位学生的例子进行支持。倒数第二段的尾句说：“Google的‘编码之夏’项目成为招募员工的一次机会"。尾段有关Elliot Cohen的叙述就是用来支持倒数第二段尾句这一论点的。故本题的正确选项应该是A“illustrate the indirect effect of‘summer of code’on Google’s recruitment”(举例说明“编码之夏”项目对Google招募所产生的间接影响)。考生在阅读时要把握上下文之间的语意关系。
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