The Internet
The Internet is a global (globe) system of computer networks to serve billions of users worldwide. The Internet has reshaped most_____(41)(tradition) means of communication including telephone, music, film and television. This has given birth to new_____(42)(develop) of mass media.
Newspaper, book and other print publishing are_____(43)(adapt) themselves to this new technology.
The Internet has_____(44)(enable) new forms of human communications such as online chatting and social networking. Online shopping has_____(45)(grow) rapidly for major stores and small traders. The business-to-business service on the Internet affects the supply chains across all_____(46)(industry).
The origins of the Internet date back to research in the 1960s. The project was to build_____(47)(power) computer networks. It was supported by the US_____(48)(govern) in cooperation with private businesses. By the 1990s, the Internet was made a commercial _____(49)(produce) and became popular worldwide. As of 2011, _____(50)(near) a third of the Earth's population used the Internet.
1. traditional
2. development
3. adapting
4. enabled
5. grown
6. industries
7. powerful
8. government
9. product
10. nearly