Question

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?

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

(NOT D)

Answer 1

The answer to the question:
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?

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

is:
to prove that the Internet needs improvement