Вопрос № 857151 - Английский язык

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Millions of people around the world use the Internet to search for and retrieve information on all sorts of topics in a wide variety of areas including the arts, business, government, humanities, news, politics and recreation. People communicate through electronic mail (e-mail), discussion groups, chat channels and other means of informational exchange. They share information and make commercial and business transactions. All this activity is possible because tens of thousands of networks are connected to the Internet and exchange information in the same basic ways.

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Before the invention of radio, it was almost 1_______ to communicate over large 2_______. The only way to communicate with people far away was 3_______ a message or a letter with a person. People lit fires on hills as a signal to 4_______, but it wasn’t a very good way of communicating. It was very difficult to find out what was happening in distant places and news often took weeks or even months to travel around the world.

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Have you got a mobile phone?
Before mobile phones were developed, you could only call someone with a phone which was connected to a phone line. That problem meant that it was often difficult to contact people, particularly if you were on a bus or in a car.
Before mobile phones, people didn’t send text messages to each other. Since they were introduced, text messages have changed the way we communicate. With text messages, you don’t need to actually call someone. You simply type a short message and send it, being careful, of course, to send it to another mobile and not to a home phone.
Mobile phones used to be big and heavy. Now, they’re small and light. The chances are that they will become even smaller and lighter in the future.
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Before mobile phones, people didn’t send text messages to …

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Not many people know that, back in the fifties, computers were very big, and also very slow. They took up complete floors of a building, and were less powerful, and much slower than any of today’s compact portable computers. At first, the data they had to process and record was fed in on punched-out paper; later magnetic tape was used, but both systems were completely inconvenient.
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In the fifties computers were less powerful, and much slow than any of today’s …

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The World Bank is officially 1_______ of the United Nations. Its aim is to fight poverty around the world and, to do that, it 2_______ money to governments and countries which need 3_______ help. Since it was created in 1945, after the end of the Second World War, the World Bank has helped improve the lives of 4_______ of poor people in many different countries.

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Many countries have their own ‘currency’ – their own money. In America it’s the dollar and in Russia it’s the 1_______. This 2_______ that when you travel from, say, Russia to the USA you have to exchange your roubles for dollars, as shops in America don’t accept roubles. Many countries in 3_______, such as France, Germany and Italy, now have the same currency, called the euro. This means that Italians travelling to Germany don’t have to worry about exchanging money when they 4_______.