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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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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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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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Credit cards have made shopping much easier for 1_______ of people. With a credit 2_______, you don’t have to carry lots of cash with you when you go shopping. You just need to take one plastic card with you. With credit cards, you get a bill at the end of each month. If you 3_______ the bill immediately, you don’t have to pay the credit card company any money. If you delay paying some or all of the bill, however, the 4_______ card company charges you extra.