Read the passage below carefully, and then select the correct option A, B, C or D:
Read the passage below carefully, and then select the correct option A, B, C or D:
The World Wide Web was developed by British physicist and computer scientist Timothy Berners-Lee as a project within the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland. Berners-Lee combined several existing ideas into a single system to make it easier for physicists to use data on the Internet. Most important, he added multimedia—the ability to include graphics—to the hyperlink concept found in a previous Internet service known as gopher. Berners-Lee had begun working with hypertext in the early 1980s. An early prototype implementation of the Web became operational at CERN in 1989, and the idea quickly spread to universities in the rest of the world.
Groups at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researched and extended Web technology. They developed the first browser that was used at many sites, named Mosaic, in 1993. To allow the Web to be accessed from a wide variety of computer systems, researchers built multiple versions of Mosaic. Each version was designed to be used with a specific operating system, the software that controls the computer. Within a year, computer programmer Marc Andreessen had formed a commercial company, Netscape Communications Corporation, to build and sell Web technologies.
New vocabulary:
gopher (n.): chuột túi, sóc túi má
prototype (n.): người (vật) đầu tiên, nguyên mẫu
implementation (n.): sự thi hành, sự thực hiện đầy đủ; sự bổ sung
operational (adj.): thuộc hoạt động, thao tác; có thể có hiệu lực
11. The World Wide Web was developed by _________ .
A. an American B. a British C. a Canadian D. a French
12. The scientist who developed the World Wide Web was majoring in ___________.
A. math and physics
B. math and computer
C. computer and physics
D. math, physics and computer
13. Which sentence below is not correct?
A. Timothy Berners-Lee spoke English very well.
B. Timothy Berners-Lee was born in Geneva, Switzerland.
C. Timothy Berners-Lee was the first person to develop WWW.
D. Some existing ideas were combined into a single system by him.
14. Which word means “a connection that allows you to move easily between two computer documents or two pages on the Internet”?
A. graphic B. datum C. project D. hyperlink
15. Which sentence is not correct?
A. “hypertext” means “a way of joining a word or image to another page, document, etc. on the Internet or in another computer program so that you can move from one to the other easily”
B. Berners-Lee had begun working with hypertext in the early 1980s.
C. An early prototype implementation of the Web became operational at CERN in 1989.
D. The idea slowly spread to universities in the rest of the world.
16. Who researched and extended Web technology?
A. Groups at the National Center for Supercomputing
Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
B. The European Organization for Nuclear Research
C. Timothy Berners-Lee
D. Marc Andreessen
17. Which sentence is not correct?
A. Mosaic was one of the scientists who developed WWW.
