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PAGE / NUMPAGES 中考英语选词填空专项练习 A experience color especial or test classroom compare they develop down ?Life has gone mostly online for many people around the world. With more people going online during the pandemic, global (全球的) internet traffic has become a big problem. Between January and late March, a quarter of major cities 1______ an increase in internet traffic, according to The Verge.?Video meetings (视频会议), online 2_______ and stay-at-home entertainment have become a lifeline to the outside world. This increase in traffic is 3______ the internet’s strength. In March, major phone networks in the UK experienced mass outages (断供). People were not able to take calls, receive texts 4_____ use mobile data, according to the Guardian.?In the US, major telecommunications (电信) companies like ATT said traffic was up 21 percent month over month. Video streaming services like YouTube, Netflix and Facebook have cut 5______ picture qualities (质量) and download speeds. This is being done to reduce network traffic jams.?China has seen an internet traffic increase of around 50 percent 6_____ to the end of 2019. The country’s network speeds went 7_______ sharply in early February, reported Xinhua. However, they returned to normal soon afterwards and have been working well.?This is due to China’s work in building network infrastructure (基础设施), 8_______ 5G technology. By the end of February, 164,000 5G base stations had been built nationwide. This has given Chinese networks the power to withstand increased traffic.?“If there were no such 9______ in the internet network field, people could hardly enjoy such a 10_______ life at home. Online working and teaching could never be realized so smoothly (顺畅地),” Wen Ku, an official with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, told Xinhua.? Keys: 1.experienced 2.classrooms 3.testing 4.or 5.pared 7.down 8.especially 9.development 10.co