Ⅲ. Article Completion (10%)
Read the passage and choose the most appropriate answer for each blank. Mark the correspondingletter A, B, C, D, or E on your answer card.
The metaverse, first described in author Neal Stephenson's novel "Snow Crash" published in 1992, hasbecome a concept used to dcscribe 3D (threc-dimensional), VWs (virtual worlds) (21)___________ .The firstmetaverse was CitySpace, which was active from 1993 to 1996. Subsequently, (22)___________ The mostpopular of these was Second Life (SL, www.secondlife.com), developed by Linden Lab in 2003. With SL.,the doors of the web-based VWs were opened to game enthusiasts. SL promised its users (23)___________the limits of which depend only on one's imagination. In this world, a person could socialize, buy real estate,design, and cven realize all kinds of fiction, up to university education. SL created its own economy,(24)___________ Moreover, the Swedish government opened an embassy in SL, where many cities,universities, artists, and individuals created virtual assets. In the game world, the examples of metaverscssuch as Roblox (www.roblox.com), Sandbox (www.sandbox.game), and Fortnite (epicgames.com/fortnite)are increasing day by day. However, with the press release of Mark Zuckerberg (25)___________ wideraudiences began to explore what the metaverse is. As of October 2021, according to google trend reports,there has been a severe increase of scarches on Metaverse in the google search engine. (Adopted from Narin,N. G. 2021)

(A) in which he announced that he changed the company name to Meta
(B) and even had the Linden Dollar currency
(C) in which people interact with each other and their environment without the physical limitations ofthe real world
(D) a second world where they can create their own avatars and determine all features of them
(E) numerous metaverses such as Active Worlds and There (www.there.com) emerged.
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(A) in which he announced that he changed the company name to Meta
(B) and even had the Linden Dollar currency
(C) in which people interact with each other and their environment without the physical limitations of the real world
(D) a second world where they can create their own avatars and determine all features of them
(E) numerous metaverses such as Active Worlds and There (www.there.com) emerged.