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lesson pretestMultiple Choice

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Question 9 • CMS 2026-2027 English III CREDIT RECOVERY

Read this excerpt from "Why No Policeman on the Block?" Any neophyte surfing the Net for the first time will be frustrated by the fact that it has no intelligence whatsoever; like a newborn baby, it is a blank slate. Worse, there are no rules or traffic cops, no regulations or even directory of the Internet. What is the author’s purpose for including this statement?

Answer
A
to give a chronology of the Internet’s evolution
B
to provide evidence that computer users are unskilled
C
to criticize the federal control of the Internet
D
to prove that the Internet needs improvement
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