The computer had modest beginnings in areas where it was (6) ................ as a specialitst tool.

Read the passage and fill one suitable world in each blank.

The history of the computer in the twentieth century is one of dramatic adaption and expansion. The computer had modest beginnings in areas where it was (6) ................ as a specialitst tool. The first electronic computer was built in the 1930s and was solely for use (7) .............. undergraduate students in Iowa State University to handle mathematical computations in nuclear physics. (8) ................ World War Two computers were developed in order to wage counter espionage and break codes used by the enemy. In the post-war years the scope of computers was expanded to include the military industrial complex and academia.

Obviously people needed to (9) ............. around these instititions and so there was a need for early network tools. In the 1960’s an early version of the Internet, ARPPANET was used in computers were starting to change our lifestyle, the way we do business and many style things (Elliot, 1994) and by the late 1980’s networks were expanding to embrace sections of the general public. The (10) .............. was born.

(6) ...................

• A. use
• B. uses
• C. used
• D. using