Some historians say that the most important contribution of Dwight Eisenhower’s Presidency (总统任期)in the 1950s was the U. S. inte

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问题     Some historians say that the most important contribution of Dwight Eisenhower’s Presidency (总统任期)in the 1950s was the U. S. interstate highway system. It was a 【B1】 project, easily surpassing the scale of such previous human 【B2】 as the Panama Canal. Eisenhower’s interstate highways 【B3】 the nation together in new ways and 【B4】 major economic growth by making commerce less—【B5】 . Today, an information superhighway has been built—an electronic network that 【B6】 libraries, corporations, government agencies and 【B7】 . This electronic superhighway is called the Internet, 【B8】 it is the backbone (主干)of the World Wide Web.
    The Internet had its 【B9】 in a 1969 U. S. Defense Department computer network called ARPA net, which 【B10】 Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. The Pentagon built the network for military contractors and universities doing military research to 【B11】 information. In 1983 the National Science Foundation (NSF) , 【B12】 mission is to promote science, took over.
    This new NSF network 【B13】 more and more institutional users, many of 【B14】 had their own internal networks. For example, most universities that 【B15】 the NSF network had intercampus computer networks. The NSF network 【B16】 became a connector for thousands of other networks. 【B17】 a backbone system that interconnects networks, internet was a name that fit.
    So we can see that the Internet is the wired infrastructure(基础设施)on which web 【B18】 move. It began as a military communication system, which expanded into a government-funded 【B19】 research network.
    Today, the Internet is a user-founded system tying institutions of many sorts together 【B20】 an "information superhighway."

选项 A、concise
B、radical
C、massive
D、trivial

答案C

解析 形容词辨义题。此处需要一个形容词修饰project,即前文提到的the U.S. interstate highway system。A)concise意为“简洁的。简明的”,B)radical意为“基本的,根本的,完全的;激进的”,C)massive意为“巨大的;结实的;宽广的”,D)trivial意为“琐细的;不重要的;轻微的,无价值的”,故选C。
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