09年6月大学英语六级真题(6)
Part V Cloze (15 minutes) Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked [A], [B], [C] and [D] on the right side of the paper. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. 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 62 project, easily surpassing the scale of such previous human 63 as the Panama Canal. Eisenhower’s interstate highways 64 the nation together in new ways and 65 major economic growth by making commerce less 66 . Today, an information superhighway has been built-an electronic network that 67 libraries, corporations, government agencies and 68 . This electronic superhighway is called the Internet, 69 it is the backbone (主干) of the World Wide Web. The Internet had its 70 in a 1969 U.S. Defense Department computer network called ARPAnet, which 71 Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. The Pentagon built the network for military contractors and universities doing military research to 72 information. In 1983 the National Science Foundation (NSF), 73 mission is to promote science, took over. This new NSF network 74 more and more institutional users, many of 75 had their own internal networks. For example, most universities that 76 the NSF network had intracampus computer networks. The NSF network 77 became a connector for thousands of other networks. 78 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 79 move. It began as a military communication system, which expanded into a government-funded 80 research network. Today, the Internet is a user-financed system tying institutions of many sorts together 81 an "information superhighway." 62. [A] concise [B] radical[C] massive [D] trivial |