阅读下面的短文，为文中空白处选择恰当的句子。The1990ssawgreatchangesinthewaypeoplecommunicate.Peoplecouldsendmailwithoutgoingtothepostoffice,andgoshoppingwithoutleavinghome.Thecauseofthisg

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阅读下面的短文，为文中空白处选择恰当的句子。
　　The 1990s saw great changes in the way people communicate. People could send mail without going to the post office, and go shopping without leaving home. ____ The cause of this great change was the Internet.
　　The idea for the Internet began in the early 1960s in the United States. The Department of Defense wanted to connect their computers together in order to share private information. In 1969, the ARPA net (an early form of the Internet) first connected computers at four American universities. ____ In 1972, scientists shared ARPA net with the world. They created a way to send person-to-person messages using ARPA net. This was the beginning of e-mail.
　　____ However, most people were not using the Internet. Then, in the 1980s, personal computers became more common. In the early 1990s, two important things happened: the birth of the World Wide Web in 1991, and the creation of the first Web browser(浏览器) in 1993. The Web made it easier to find information on the Internet, and to move from place to place using links. The Web and browser made it possible to see information at a website with pictures, sound and words.
　　Today, millions of people connect to the Internet to send e-mails, visit website, or store information on servers. ____ And computers are changing how we learn, work, shop and communicate.
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A. Computers are now an important part of our lives.
B. One computer successfully sent information to another.
C. Words like e-mail and download became part of people's vocabulary.
D. Over the next few years, there was a lot of progress made in the world of computing.

Answer 1

【分析】1、开头简单介绍了因特网引起的巨大变化。“电子邮件”和“下载”这些词已成了人们词汇中不可或缺的一部分。
2、前面说连网，那么这就应是：成功地把一台计算机上的信息传到另外的计算机上。
3、后面的内容说的是电脑的普及应用，所以用一个承接的句子。
4、这里说的是电脑在我们日常生活的应用，所以说电脑是我们生活中不可缺少的一部分了。