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Reading Comprehension 廖景智 广东外语外贸大学 Warm-up: make a choice We are all busy talking about and using the Internet, but how many of us know the history of the Internet? Many people are surprised when they find that the Internet was set up as recently as the 1960s. At that time, computers were large and expensive. Computer networks didn’t work well. If one computer in the network broke down, then the whole network stopped. So a new network system had to be set up... At first, the Internet was only used by the government, but in the 1970s, universities, hospitals and banks began to use it, too. ...