[简答题]{{B}}Section D{{/B}}
In this section, there is one passage
followed by five questions. Read the passage carefully, and then answer the
questions in a maximum of 10 words. Remember to write the answers on the answer
sheet.
The concept of information superhighway has been around for
more than a decade, but until 1993 it was merely a technological imagination.
Today information superhighway has become an everyday topic and is making its
entry into our lives.
Information superhighway is an
unprecedented nationwide, or worldwide, electronic communications network that
connects everyone to everyone else, and provides just about any sort of
electronic communication imaginable. Hook up your computer to the Internet and
you are on your information superhighway. The purpose of information
superhighway is to provide remote electronic banking, schooling, shopping,
taxpaying, game playing, video conferencing, movie ordering, medical diagno