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Some historians say that the most important contribution of Dwight Eisenhower’s presidency (总统任期) in the 1950s was the U. S. int

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问题     Some historians 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【C1】______ project, easily surpassing the scale of such previous human【C2】______ as the Panama Canal. Eisenhower’s interstate highways【C3】______ the nation together in new ways and【C4】______ major economic growth by making commerce less【C5】______ Today, an information superhighway has been built—an electronic network that【C6】______ libraries, corporations, government agencies and【C7】______ . This electronic superhighway is called the Internet,【C8】______ it is the backbone (主干) of the World Wide Web.
    The Internet had its【C9】______ in a 1969 U. S. Defense Department computer network called ARPAnet, which【C10】______ Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. The Pentagon built the network for military contractors and universities doing military research to【C11】______ information. In 1983 the National Science Foundation (NSF) ,【C12】______ mission is to promote science, took over.
    This new NSF network【C13】______ more and more institutional users, many of【C14】______ had their own internal networks. For example, most universities that【C15】______ the NSF network had intra-campus computer networks. The NSF network【C16】______ became a connector for thousands of other networks.【C17】______ 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【C18】______ move. It began as a military communication system, which expanded into a government-funded【C19】______ research network.
    Today, the Internet is a user-financed system tying institutions of many sorts together【C20】______ an " information superhighway".
【C7】
选项 A、figures
B、personalities
C、individuals
D、humans
答案C
解析 名词辨义。四个选项都与“人”有关，但是与前面几个表示机构的名词libraries，corporations，government agencies等相对应的只有individuals“个人，个体”，故本题的正确答案为C项。figures意为“数字；人物；体态”，personalities意为“个性，人格”，humans意为“人，人类”。这三个名词虽然与“人”有关，但是不能与句中的众多机构对应，故均可以排除。
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