Yahoo Makes Young Programmer a Millionaire 天才高中生开发App售雅虎赚3千萬
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- 发布于 2013年6月15日
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Yahoo Inc. has purchased the mobile news app Summly for about US$30 million. The seventeen-year-old creator of the app, Nick D’Aloisio, has also been given a full-time job in the tech giant’s London office. The deal shows that Yahoo aims to stay competitive in mobile services, according to industry analysts.
雅虎公司用美金约3千万的价格，买下新的手机新闻应用程序Summly。此应用程序的17岁创造者尼克．达洛西欧也受聘在该科技巨擘的伦敦分公司任职。业界分析师表示：这桩交易显示雅虎致力于在行动服务方面保持竞争力。
Summly, which has been downloaded about a million times, provides users with organized previews of news topics. The app’s young creator thought of the idea when he was doing research for a school project. He needed an app that could identify key words in articles and turn them into a 400-character summary. Thus, he made summly, which successfully provides accurate snapshots of a topic, while search engines like Google often return a large number of results that are irrelevant.
已被下载约100万次的Summly，提供用户关于新闻主题的条理化预览。这个应用程序的年轻创造者，是在为学校报告搜寻数据时产生这个想法。他需要一个可以辨识文章中的关键词，并将之转换成一篇400字摘要的应用程序。因此，他创造了可以成功为一个主题提供精确概述的Summly，而谷歌等搜索引擎则经常回报许多不相关的搜寻结果。
Nick taught himself to program at the age of twelve, and caught the attention of market investors with his app Trimit, which he made when he was fifteen. Despite being a millionaire and the youngest employee at Yahoo now, the young programmer remains enthusiastic to develop other useful apps and innovative services.
尼克在12岁时自学撰写计算机程序，他在15岁撰写的应用程序Trimit即已引起市场投资人的注意。虽然现在已经是百万富翁和雅虎最年轻的职员，这位年轻的程序设计师依然对于开发其他实用的应用程序和创新的服务充满热诚。
－by Geoffrey Trager
Vocabulary
competitive [kəmˋpɛtətɪv] adj. 具有竞争力的
analyst [ˋæn!ɪst] n. 分析者
preview [ˋpri͵vju] n. 预先审查
identify [aɪˋdɛntə͵faɪ] v. 识别; 分辨
accurate [ˋækjərɪt] adj. 准确的
snapshot [ˋsnæp͵ʃɑt] n. 简要印象; 快照
irrelevant [ɪˋrɛləvənt] adj. 无关系的；不对题的
investor [ɪnˋvɛstɚ] n. 投资者
innovative [ˋɪno͵vetɪv] adj. 创新的
Reading Comprehension
1. What is the article mainly about?
(A) The new CEO of Yahoo.
(B) The teen who got rich by creating Yahoo.
(C) A teen who's app has been bought by Yahoo.
(D) The richest employee of Yahoo.
2. What does Summly do for users?
(A) It creates short video of news stories.
(B) It helps people make Google searches.
(C) It returns lots of data that's not important.
(D) It makes shorter versions of news articles.
3. According to the article, what is TRUE about the app Trimit?
(A) It was created before Summly.
(B) It was sold for US $30 million.
(C) It was created by Yahoo.
(D) It has been downloaded about a million times.
Answer
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1. ( C ) |
2. ( D ) |
3. ( A ) |
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