Unit 8 Have You Got What It Takes

On 4 February, 2004, a Harvard student named Mark Zuckerberg, along with a few of his fellow classmates, had an idea to create a social network for Harvard students. Dubbed "TheFacebook", the site was a place where students could communicate and share photos with their friends. Within a month, TheFacebook grew in popularity, prompting its founders to include students from other well-respected universities. It didn't take long for it to become a fully-fledged (成熟的) business that Zuckerberg decided to expand to most of the universities in the US and Canada. It eventually opened the site to any user, rather than just college students. From humble beginnings, Facebook (the company dropped the "The" from its name in 2005) has grown to become the world's No. 1 social network with more than 350 million users worldwide. Now Facebook has become a major cultural touchstone, and the buzz (熱度) it captured in the early part of this decade shows no sign of abating (消退).

2004年2月4日，哈佛大學(xué)的學(xué)生馬克?扎克伯格和幾位同學(xué)萌生了為哈佛的學(xué)生建立一個社交網(wǎng)站的想法。在這個名為“臉書（TheFacebook）”的網(wǎng)站上，學(xué)生們可以和朋友聊天、分享照片。在一個月內(nèi)“臉書”就迅速躥紅，于是網(wǎng)站創(chuàng)始人把其他知名大學(xué)的學(xué)生也都連接到了網(wǎng)內(nèi)。不久，“臉書”就發(fā)展成一個成熟的公司，扎克伯格決定將網(wǎng)站擴(kuò)展到美國和加拿大的大多數(shù)大學(xué)。最終，“臉書”不僅向大學(xué)生開放，還向所有的人開放。“臉書（Facebook）”（2005年，公司從名字中刪除了“The”）從最初的名不見經(jīng)傳變成了全球最大的社交網(wǎng)站，在世界各地?fù)碛?.5億用戶。如今，“臉書”已成為一個重要的文化試金石，它的熱度在這個十年的前半段仍然沒有消退的跡象。

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隨著就業(yè)市場競爭的日益激烈，中國大學(xué)生越來越重視實習(xí)。每年都有大量的高年級學(xué)生參與實習(xí)。實習(xí)有助于學(xué)生驗證自己的職業(yè)抉擇、了解目標(biāo)工作的內(nèi)容和要求、學(xué)習(xí)技能、鍛煉才干。實習(xí)是幫助學(xué)生找到好工作的有效途徑。企業(yè)在招聘時會傾向于尋找有相關(guān)實習(xí)經(jīng)歷的應(yīng)聘者，有些企業(yè)在招聘的時候會優(yōu)先錄取自己的實習(xí)生。

With the increasingly fierce competition in the job market, Chinese college students are attaching more and more importance to internships. Every year, a lot of senior students take part in internships which may help them find out whether they have made the right choice of career and have a clear idea of what they are going to do in their target job and what the job demands; it also helps students learn skills and cultivate their abilities. Taking internships is an effective way to secure a good job. In recruiting new staff, companies tend to prefer applicants with relevant internship experience. Some companies will give preference to those who have done an internship in their companies.