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. B. People will have more holidays. C. Many people will live and work under the sea. D. All the factories and farms will be built under the sea. B We are all busy talking about and using the Inter, but how many of us know about the history of the Inter? Many people are surprised when they find that the Inter was set up in the that time, puters were large and expensive. Computer works(網(wǎng)絡(luò) ) didn’t work one puter in the work broke down, then the whole work a new work system(系統(tǒng) ) had to be set up. It should begood enough to be used by many different puters. If part of the work was not working, information could be sent through another part. In this way the puter work system would keep on working all the time. At first, the Inter was only used by the government, but in the early 1970s,universities,hospitals and banks were allowed to use it too. However, puters were still expensive and the Inter was difficult to use. By the start of the 1990s,puters bee cheaper and easier to use. Scientists had also developed software(軟件 ) that made “surfing( 瀏覽 )” the Inte r more convenient( 方便 ).Today it is easy to get online and it is said that millions of people use the Inter every day. Sending is more and more popular among students. The Inter has now bee one of the most important parts of people’ s life ( )1. The Inter has a history of ______ years A. about 40 B. less than 30 C. more than 45 D. nearly 35 ( )2. Scientists set up a new work system to ______. A. make the puter cheaper B. make the system work well C. make the puter go well D. develop new software ( )3. The Inter was widely used in the ______. ( )4. The underlined words “set up” in Chinese mean ______. ( )5. Which of the following is NOT true? A. In the 1960s puter work system went wrong easily. B. Computers are much cheaper than before. C. Today the Inter is used everywhere. D. People had enough software to get online fifteen years ago. 四. 單詞填空 。m looking forward ( 期 待 )to the year 2020. I hope to go to the moon! ” “And 1 hope I39。ll wo