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(2)
Telephone, television,
radio, and telegraph all help people communicate with each other. Because of
these devices, ideas and news events (36) quickly over the world. For example,
within seconds, people can know the (37) of election in another country. An
international football match comes into the (38) of everyone with a television
set. News of a disaster such as an earthquake or a flood can bring (39) from
distant countries within hours. Goods and provisions are on the way. Because of
modern (40) like the satellites that turns around the world, information (41)
fast. How has this (42) of communication changed the world? To many people, the
world has become smaller. Of course this does not (43) that the world is
actually (44) smaller. It means that the world seems smaller. Two hundred years
ago, communication between the (45) took a long time. All news was (46) on
ships that took weeks or even months to cross the ocean. In the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries, it took six weeks for news from Europe to reach America. This
time (47) influenced people’s (48). For examples, one battle, or fight, in the
War of 1812 between England
and the United States
could have been (49). A peace agreement had already been (50). Peace was made
in England, but the news of
peace took six weeks to reach America.
During these six weeks, the large and (51) battle of New Orleans was (52). Many people lost their
lives (53) a peace treaty had been signed. They would not have died if news had
come (54). In the past, communication took much more time than it does now.
There was a good (55) why the world seemed so much larger than it does today.