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5×5= 15×5= 115×5= 115×15= 1115×115= The first computer was called ENIAC. As time went by, the computers became faster, smaller and more reliable. Today, personal computers are more powerful than the room-sized computers of the past. Paragraph1: Over time I have been changed quite a lot. Supporting details: …serve as a calculating machine …an analytical machine …a universal machine …a PC …a laptop Paragraph 2: These changes only became possible as my memory improved. Supporting details: …stored in tubes …stored on transistors …stored on small chips ...share knowledge with others through the WWW. Paragraph 3: Since the 1970s many new applications have been found for me. Supporting details: …play a part in communication, finance and trade … be used to make robots and mobile phones …be put into space rockets …help with the medical operations The main idea of this passage: This is a short __________ of the ______________ and a______________ of computers. Over time, computers have been changed quite a lot. Think of a new title Who am I? The development and applications of the computer In 1642, I was designed as a ___________ machine to ________ difficult sums. It took nearly 200 years before I was built as an ___________ machine by Charles Babbage. After I was programmed by an ________ , I could “think” ________, which was considered a ________________________ and the start of my ______________________. In 1936, Alan Turing had the idea about how I could be made to work as a __________________ to solve any difficult mathematical problem. _____________, I grew quickly both _________ and _______________. By the 1940s I had grown ___________________, and this ______ worried my designers. As time went by, my memory i_________ and then I was made smaller. First my memory was stored in ______, then on ____________ and later on very small _______. As a result, my shape was ______ changed. But I was always lonely st