单选题
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In this section, there is one passage
followed by five questions. Read the passage carefully, and then answer the
questions in a maximum of 10 words. Remember to write the answers on the answer
sheet.
The concept of information superhighway has been around for
more than a decade, but until 1993 it was merely a technological imagination.
Today information superhighway has become an everyday topic and is making its
entry into our lives.
Information superhighway is an
unprecedented nationwide, or worldwide, electronic communications network that
connects everyone to everyone else, and provides just about any sort of
electronic communication imaginable. Hook up your computer to the Internet and
you are on your information superhighway. The purpose of information
superhighway is to provide remote electronic banking, schooling, shopping,
taxpaying, game playing, video conferencing, movie ordering, medical diagnosing,
etc. Information superhighway will make many things you do easier and more
convenient. For example, instead of calling your friends one by one to tell them
the party is canceled, you'll simply send a single e-mail message to everyone at
once. And if you live in a rural area far from a major hospital, telemedicine
may allow a specialist in London to diagnose you without you having to travel
farther than to your local physician's clinic. Information superhighway may also
pull together newspaper and magazine articles from around the world on a
particular topic of your own interests. If you like to shop with someone who
lives in another city, you may call him and then do some shopping together for
an hour or two.
Whether you like it or not, information
superhighway will change the way we live.
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