The computer, which was used to simplify difficult sums, began 【小题1】a calculating machine

The puter, which was used to simplify difficult sums, began     【小题1】     a calculating machine in France in 1642. Then it developed into an analytical machine. After     【小题2】 (program) by an operator     【小题3】     used cards with holes, it could produce an answer quicker than any person. Later, Alan Turning wrote a book about how a puter could be made     【小题4】    work as a “universal machine”. From then on, the puter grew rapidly both in size and in brainpower. By the 1940s, it had grown as large as a room and this reality worried the designers.     【小题5】    , with its memory     【小题6】     (improve), the puter was made smaller. First, the memory was stored in tubes, then on transistors and later on very small chips. As a result, the shape of the puter     【小题7】     (total) changed from a large machine to a PC and then a laptop. Connected by    【小题8】    network, the puter was able to share its knowledge     【小题9】     others through the World Wide Web. Since the 1970s many new applications of the puter     【小题10】     (find) in munication, finance, trade and many other areas. The puter has bee a devoted friend and helper of the human race.as