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#830 The?history?of?the?Internet
因特網(wǎng)的歷史
We?are?all?busy?talking?about?and?using?the?Internet?(因特網(wǎng)),?but?
how?many?of?us?know?the?history?of?the?Internet???
Many?people?are?surprised?when?they?find?that?the?Internet?was?
set?up?in?the?1960s.?At?that?time,?computers?were?large?and?expensive.?
Computer?networks?(網(wǎng)絡(luò))?didn't?work?well.?If?one?computer?in?the?
network?broke?down,?then?the?whole?network?stopped.?So?a?new?
network?system?(系統(tǒng))?had?to?be?set?up.?It?should?be?good?enough?to?
be?used?by?many?different?computers.?If?part?of?the?network?was?not?
working,?information(信息)could?be?sent?through?another?part.?In?this?
way?computer?network?system?would?keep?on?working?all?the?time.??
At?first?the?Internet?was?only?used?by?the?government?(政府),?but?in?
the?early?1970s,?universities?(大學(xué)),?hospitals?and?banks?(銀行)?were?
allowed?(允許)?to?use?it?too.?However,?computers?were?still?very?
expensive?and?the?Internet?was?difficult?to?use.?By?the?start?of?the?
1990s,?computers?became?cheaper?and?easier?to?use.?Scientists?had?
also?developed?software?(軟件)?that?made?"surfing"?(瀏覽)?the?Internet?
more?convenient?(方便).??
Today?it?is?easy?to?get?on-line?(上網(wǎng))?and?it?is?said?that?millions?of?
people?use?the?Internet?every?day.?Sending?e-mail?(電子郵件)?is?
more?and?more?popular?among?students.??
The?Internet?has?now?become?one?of?the?most?important?parts?
of?people's?life.??
1.?The?Internet?has?a?history?of?more?than?_C__?years.??
A.?sixty????
B.?ten????
C.?thirty????
D.?twenty??
2.?A?new?network?system?was?set?up?to?__B__.??
A.?make?computers?cheaper??
B.make?itself?keep?on?working?all?the?time??
C.?break?down?the?whole?network??
D.?make?computers?large?and?expensive??
3.?At?first?the?Internet?was?only?used?by?___A___.??
A.?the?government?????????
B.?universities??
C.?hospitals?and?banks????
D.?schools??
4.?___C___?made?"surfing"?the?Internet?more?convenient.??
A.?Computers???
B.?Scientists????
C.?Software????
D.?Information??
5.?Which?of?the?following?is?true???---C---?
A.?In?the?1960s,?computer?networks?worked?well.??
B.?In?the?early?1970s,?the?Internet?was?easy?to?use.??
C.?Sending?e-mail?is?now?more?popular?among?students?than?
before.??
D.?Today?it's?still?not?easy?to?get?on-line.