2019-2020学年名校高二下期中汇编——阅读C.docx
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2019-2020学年名校高二下期中汇编——阅读C
【2020奉贤中学高二下期中】
(C)
With the explosion of big data — a new product, a highly profitable, fast-growing industry, has appeared, urging antitrust (反垄断) regulators to step in to check those who control its flow. A century ago, the resource in question was oil. Now similar concerns are being raised by the big companies that deal in data, the oil of the digital age. The most valuable firms are Google, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft. All look unstoppable. Such situations have led to calls 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. Far from charging consumers high prices, many of these services are free (users pay, in effect, by