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Step 1
Read the passage.

The Importance of Silicon Valley
These days, Silicon Valley is still synonymous with technology, but it has also
expanded to much more than computers and microchips. These days, much of the
world ’s electronic commerce, or e-commerce for short, is based in Silicon Valley.
The world has become reliant on Silicon Valley to grow, innovate, and lead the
next technology explosion. Silicon Valley has always responded well. Companies
that have made monumental changes to the world al l inhabit Silicon Valley. From
the beginning , Silicon Valley has exploded from a computer, microchip area to
one with Internet, search , venture capitalists , and high-tech science research

Step 2
n Listen to the lecture and take notes. 뭘월룰톨
The second wave
• First in the second wave was
• It raised
The 1990s
• Companies such as
• There was a
• E-commerce started
• Ebay, Google, and Verisign al lowed
The stock market
• American stock market became
• In 2000,
• This caused
Silicon Valley now
• Now it is
• It is growing
Step 3

Read the prompt.
The professor and passage talk about Silicon Valley. Explain how Silicon Valley
was and will continue to be important in the future

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