Inventions and Discoveries. Test. Form 9

Match:

Fill in the gaps into the sentences with the words:

invention, Internet, link, scientist, impossible, appeared.

Although the prototype of the Internet          (1) in the 1960s with the creation of ARPANET, for the Internet we know today we should be thankful to a British ____           (2), Sir Timothy Berners-Lee who introduced the World Wide Web. Berners-Lee chose the name «World Wide Web» because he wanted to point out that, in this global hypertext system, anything could      (3) to anything else. Other possible names were: «Mine of Information» (Moi); «The Information Mine» (Tim), and «Information Mesh» (which was criticised as it looked too much like «Information Mess»). He has been at the head of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) since 1994 trying to lead the ____          (4) to its full potential. Queen Elizabeth II granted him the Knight title for his           (5), and Time Magazine called him the world’s greatest living genius. Today, we use the Internet for almost everything, and for many people it would be ____            (6) to imagine life without it.

Choose the correct variant:

1.The rule explained by the teacher at the last lesson …                 [are understood, were understood, were understand, is understood, was understood] by all of us.

2.This popular city…              [is visited, will visited, are visited, visited, is visited] by many tourists.

3.These holidays…                 [is celebrated, were celebrated, are celebrated, celebrate, are celebrated] at the end of the summer.

4.The first bridges ..... in 2200 B.C.

               [was build , is built, was built, will be built, were built]

5.The Science Museum ...              [are visited , is visited , was visited , visited] by hundreds of tourists last year.

6. This book ....              [was wrote, were written, was written, was writed] by famous English writer.