题目内容
Back to the Future was boffo at the box office."Born in the USA" was climbing the charts.Philanthropy
(慈善业) and pop culture combined with LiveAid and "We Are the World. " And " .com ", which few
people outside of the military or universities knew,came into this world.
Looking back,few could have predicted ".com" would become one of the biggest cultural touchstones
of the century.In March 1985,the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California
assigned the first.com domain address to symbolics.com.That seemingly nominal (象征性的) event set into
motion forces that would change our world forever.
.com wasn't the birth of the Internet,but it was the budding computer network's comingout party.It made
it pretty and inviting.It did away with the need to have complex "maps" that were the equivalent of writing a
phone number on your hand,and opened it up for a mainstream audience.
After 1985,all it takes is a simple.com name to get into business.".com" became part of our daily lexicon
and drove its own economic boom and depression. It helped create a whole new family of industries,
facilitated global commerce and connected people around the world in ways never before possible.
It's now 2010.Barack Obama is president,thanks in part to his smart use of the Internet.There is no
USSR.A computergenerated Avatar has set new box office records."TiK ToK" tops the charts.We're
sending robots to find water on Mars.And that onceobscure computer communications system is one of
our civilization's most prominent features.
B.the development of entertainment
C.the 25th anniversary of.com
D.the anniversary of the internet
B.Changeable.
C.Tough.
D.Novel.
B.It combined politics,entertainment and space science.
C.It made the Internet accessible to ordinary people.
D.It helped produce more domain addresses.
B.complex
C.expensive
D.popular
B.provide details
C.list arguments
D.stimulate readers' interest

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