D
Unable to turn its fortunes around, Yahoo is reportedly thinking about selling its pioneering Internet business.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday that Yahoo’s board will meet several times this week, during which the company’s directors will consider whether to sell Yahoo’s profitable share in Alibaba, the company’s core (核心) Internet business, or both. A spokesman for Yahoo did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has struggled to reverse Yahoo’s years-long decline in sales. The Internet portal’s(门户网站的) bread-and-butter advertising business has recently been surpassed(超越) by Google and Facebook, and the gap between them is only widening.
The company has gone through many attempts at a reform over the past decade, choosing to get rid of its once leading search business, then deciding to focus on its media capitals, then putting emphasis on its apps and services — all ending with the same result: Yahoo is failing to take advantage of its massive audience and transform those eyeballs into growing ad sales.
Shares of Yahoo have dropped sharply 35% this year. Meanwhile, the bad news keeps piling up for Yahoo. An unfavorable ruling from the IRS means that Yahoo will have to pay taxes when it sells its massive $30 billion share in Alibaba. Activist investor(投资者) group Starboard has asked Yahoo not to sell its Alibaba business and instead look to sell off its core Internet business.
It’s unclear what companies or investors might be interested in Yahoo. Microsoft had offered to take over Yahoo for $46 billion in 2008, but Yahoo fought off the deal.
Now, Yahoo is worth just over $30 billion. Since that includes the company’s Alibaba and $8.5 billion Yahoo Japan shares, investors have valued Yahoo’s core business as worthless.
Yahoo still is one of the most-visited websites in the world. It received 210 million visitors in October, according to comScore, making it the No. 3 site behind Google and Facebook.
12. During the meeting of Yahoo’s board, the directors will discuss ________.
A. how they will sell Yahoo’s profitable share in Alibaba
B. if they will sell Yahoo’s profitable share in Alibaba
C. how much of the company’s core Internet business they will sell
D. who the company’s core Internet business will be sold to
13. The underlined word “reverse” in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to “________”.
A. ignore the present situation
B. better improve the situation
C. turn it into the opposite situation
D. predict the future situation
14. According to Paragraphs 4 and 5, what happens to Yahoo?
A. Yahoo is faced with continuous difficult circumstances.
B. Yahoo doesn’t take its problems seriously.
C. Yahoo makes good use of quantities of its audience.
D. Yahoo needs to pay taxes if it sells its core Internet business.
15. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Yahoo stressed its apps and services in the beginning.
B. Who shows interest in Yahoo is certain at present.
C. Yahoo receives the largest number of visitors all the time.
D. Yahoo’s value has declined. www.2abc8.com
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Recently some American scientists have a useful piece of advice to people in industrialized nations. They say people should eat more of the same kind of food eaten by humans living more than 10, 000 years ago. 16
The scientists say that the human life has changed greatly. Our bodies have not been able to deal with these changes in lifestyle and this has led to new kinds of sicknesses. 17 So they are called “diseases of civilization”. Many cancers and diseases of the blood system are examples of such diseases.
Scientists noted that people in both the Old Stone Age and the New Stone Age enjoyed very little alcohol or tobacco, probably none. 18 . However, a change in food is one of the main differences between life in ancient times and that of today.
Stone Age people hunted wild animals for their meat, which had much less fat than domestic ones. They ate a lot of fresh wild vegetables and fruits. They did not have milk or any other dairy products, and they made very little use of grains. 19 .We eat six times more salt than our ancestors. We eat more sugar. We eat twice as much fat but only one third as much protein and much less vitamin C.
20 . But scientists say that we would be much healthier if we eat much the same way the ancient people did, cutting the amount of fatty, salty and sweet food.
A. Stone Age people lived a simple life.
B. But today, we enjoy eating a lot of these.
C. In that case, they would live much healthier.
D. Ancient people also got lots of physical exercise.
E. These new sicknesses were not known in ancient times.
F. People today probably don’t want to live like our ancestors.
G. Modern people used to suffer from “diseases of civilization.”
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