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    Some historian say that the most important contribution of Dwight Eisenhower’s presidency (总统任期) in the 1950s was the U.S. interstate highway system. It was a __1__ project, easily surpassing the scale of such previous human __2__ as the Panama Canal. Eisenhower’s interstate highways __3__ the nation together in new ways and __4__ major economic growth by making commerce less __5__. Today, an information superhighway has been built—an electronic network that __6__ libraries, corporations, government agencies and __7__. This electronic superhighway is called the Internet, __8__ it is the backbone (主干) of the World Wide Web.
    The Internet had its __9__ in a 1969 U.S. Defense Department computer network called ARPAnet, which __10__ Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. The Pentagon built the network for military contractors and universities doing military research to __11__ information. In 1983 the National Science Foundation (NSF), __12__ mission is to promote science, took over.
    This new NSF network __13__ more and more institutional users, may of _  14_  had their own internal networks. For example, most universities that _15__ the NSF network had intracampus computer networks. The NSF network __16__ became a connector for thousands of other networks. __17__ a backbone system that interconnects networks, internet was a name that fit.
    So we can see that the Internet is the wired infrastructure (基础设施) on which web __18_ move. It began as a military communication system, which expanded into a government-funded __19__ research network..
    Today, the Internet is a user-financed system tying intuitions of many sorts together __20__ an “information superhighway.”

1. A) concise           B) radical            C) massive          D) trivial
2. A) behaviors          B) endeavors     C) inventions     D) elements
3. A) packed            B) stuck              C) suppressed     D) bound
4. A) facilitated       B) modified         C) mobilized         D) terminated
5. A) competitive     B) comparative    C) exclusive        D) expensive
6. A) merges           B) connects          C) relays            D) unifies
7. A) figures          B) personalities      C) individuals       D) humans
8. A) and                B) yet                 C) or             D) while
9. A) samples          B) sources              C) origins          D) precedents
10. A) stood by        B) stood for           C) stood against     D) stood over
11. A) exchange        B) bypass               C) switch          D) interact
12. A) their              B) that               C) when            D) whose
13. A) expanded         B) contracted         C) attracted            D) extended
14. A) what              B) which          C) these                   D) them
15. A) joined            B) attached              C) participated       D) involved
16. A) moreover          B) however           C) likewise               D) then
17. A) With              B) By                  C) In                D) As
18. A) contexts           B) signs           C) messages             D) leaflets
19. A) citizen            B) civilian           C) amateur           D) resident
20. A) into                B) amid               C) over              D) toward

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