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We are all busy talking about and using the Internet, but how many of us know the history of the Internet
Many people are surprised when they find that the Internet was set up as recently as the 1960s. At that time, computers were large and expensive. Computer networks didn’t work well. If one computer in the network broke down, then the whole network stopped. So a new network system 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 could be sen through another part. In this way the computer network system would keep on working all the time.
At first the Internet was only used by the government, but in the 1970s, universities, hospitals and banks began to use it, too. However, computers were still very expensive and the Internet was difficult to use. At the beginning of the 1990s, computers became cheaper and easier to use. And scientists developed software that made Internet “surfing”
A. 1960
B. the 1960s
C. 1970
D. the 1970s
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[单项选择]We are all busy talking about and using the Internet, 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 didn’t work well. If one computer in the network broke down, the whole network stopped. So a new network system 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 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, but in the early 1970s, universities, hospitals and banks were allowed to use it, too. However, computers were still very expensive and the Internet was difficult to use. By the start of 1990s, computers became cheaper and easier to use. Scientists had also developed software that made "surfing" the Internet easier.
A. For about 10 years.
B. For about 20 years.
C. For about 40 years.
D. For about 60 years.
[简答题]One good thing about our chopsticks is that we can reach for what we’d like to eat at tables; it wouldn’t be SO convenient wim knife and fork.I understand friends from western countries do not approve of reaching over the table for things when you have dinner parties in your own country.But in China we don’t mind.Make yourselves at home,please.Help yourselves!
[单项选择]In one sense, we can trace all the problems of the American city back (91) a single starting point: we Americans don’t like our cities very much.
That is, on the (92) of it, absurd. After all, more than three-fourths of us now live in cities, and more are (93) to them every year. We are told that the problems of our cities are (94) more attention in Washington, and scholarship has discovered a whole new (95) in urban studies.
(96) , it is historically true: in the American psychology, the city has been a basically suspect institution, (97) with the corruption of Europe, totally lacking that sense of spaciousness and innocence of the (98) and the rural landscape.
I don’t pretend to be a scholar on the history of the city in American life. But my thirteen years in public (99) , first as an officer of the U. S. Department of Justice, then as Congressman, and now as Mayor o
A. particularly
B. almost
C. for instance
D. as for