Question

  The 1990s saw great changes in the waypeople communicate. People could send mail without going to the 1        and go shopping without leaving home.

2     like "e-mail" and "download" became part of people's vocabulary. The Cciusc of this great change was the 3     . The idea for the Internet began in the early 1960s in 4     . The Depart?ment of Defense wanted to 5        their computers together in order to 6        private information. In 1969,the ARPANET (an early form of the Internet) first connected the 7        at four American universities. One computer suc?cessfully 8        information to another. In 1972,scientists shared ARPANET 9        the world. They created a 10 to send person-to-person messages using ARPANET. This was the 11        of e-mail.

  Over the next few years,there was a lot of progress made in the world of computing,12        most people were not using the Internet. Then,in the 1980 s,personal computers became more 13    .In the early 1990s,14        important things happened：the birth of the World Wide Weh in 1991,and the creation of the 15     Web browser (瀏覽器) in 1993. The web made it 16     to find informalion on the Internet,and to move from place to place 17     links. The Web browser made it possible to see information as a website with pictures,sound,and words.

  Today, 18     of people connect to the Internet to send emails,visit web?sites,or store information on servers. 19     are now an important part of our lives and are changing 20        we learn,work,shop,and communicate.

1. A. post office   B. supermarket  

  C. department store   D. the office

2. A. Expressions   B. Phrases   C. Letters   D. Words

3. A. computer H. Internet   C. server   D. browser

4. A. America   B. England   C. China   D. Canada

5. A. put   B. get   C. connect   D. leave

6. A. have   B. take   C. reach   D. share

7. A. computers   B. colleges   C. telephones I) , lines

8. A. worked R found   C. posted   D. sent

9. A. to   B. in   C. with   D. for

10. A. place   B. way   C. path   D. direction

11. A. beginning   B. finding   C. creating   D. using

12. A. but   B. and   C. or   D. because

13. A. practical   B. familiar   C. expensive   D. common

14. A. two   B. three   C. four   D. five

15. A. new   B. first   C. advanced   D. modern

16. A. easier   B. harder   C. slower   D. cheaper

17. A. circling   B. seeking   C. sending   D. using

18. A. tens   B. hundreds   C. thousands   D. millions

19. A. E-mails   B. Messages   C. Computers   D. Websites

20. A. how   B. what   C. when   D. why

Answer 1

l.A由常識(shí)可知，寄郵件通常去郵局，而不是超巿、百貨大樓或辦公室。

2. D e-mail和download為單詞。

3. B由下文可知，本文講述了互聯(lián)網(wǎng)的發(fā)展歷史。

4. A由下文的four American universities可知是美國。

5. C句意：國防部想把他們的電腦聯(lián)網(wǎng)以實(shí)現(xiàn)資源共享。

6. D將電腦聯(lián)網(wǎng)的目的是實(shí)現(xiàn)資源共享。share"分享"，符合語境。

7. A互聯(lián)網(wǎng)是連接電腦的網(wǎng)絡(luò)，故選A.

8. D句意：一臺(tái)電腦成功地向另一臺(tái)電腦發(fā)送信息。

9. C句意：1972年，科學(xué)家們和世界一起分享ARPA網(wǎng)的信息。share—with…和.. 分享.. 。

10. B分析語境可知，該空表示方法，應(yīng)填way。

11. A這是電子郵件的開始。

12. A根據(jù)邏輯分析可知，前后句意發(fā)生轉(zhuǎn)折，應(yīng)填but。

13. D句意：然后，在20世紀(jì)80年代.個(gè)人電腦變得更為常見。practical實(shí)際的;familiar熟悉的;expensive昂貴的;均不符合句意。

14. A下文介紹了兩件重要的事。

15. B

16. A

17. D

18. D

19. C通篇講的都是"電腦和互聯(lián)網(wǎng)"，根據(jù)語境可知：現(xiàn)在，電腦是我們生活中重要的一部分。

20. A句意：現(xiàn)在，電腦已成為我們生活中的一個(gè)重要組成部分，并正在改變我們學(xué)習(xí)、工作、購物和交流的方式。how引導(dǎo)賓語從句。