Tim is so（)that he never changes his mind.

Tim Berners-Lee is the man who wrote the software(软件)programme that led to the foundation of the World Wide Web. Britain played an important part in developing the first generation of computers. The parents of Tim Berners-Lee both worked on one of the earliest commercial(商业的)computers and talked about their work at home. As a child he would build models of computers from packaging material. After graduating from Oxford University he went on to the real thing. In the 1980s scientists were already communicating using a primitive version(原始版本)of e-mail. While working at a laboratory in Switzerland, Tim Berners-Lee wrote a programme, which let him store these messages. This gave him another idea: write a programme that will let academics(学术界人士)from across the world share information on a single place. In 1990 he wrote the HTTP(服务程序所用的协议)and HTML(超文本链接标示语言)programmes which form. the basis of the World Wide Web.

The next year his programmes were placed on to the Internet. Everyone was welcome to use them and improve them if they could. Programmers used his codes(编码)to work with different operating systems. New things like web browsers(浏览器)and search engines were developed. Between 1991 and 1994 the number of web pages rose from 10 to 100,000.

In 1994 Tim Berners-Lee formed the newly formed World Wide Web Consortium(协会)，or W3C. More than 200 leading companies and laboratories are represented(代表)by W3C. Together they make sure that everyone can share equally on the web. "The Web can help people understand the way that others live and love and are human. It helps us understand the humanity of people, "he says.

1. From the lines we can infer that Tim Berners-Lee is _____.

A. British

B. American

C. Swiss

D. French

2. The main idea of this passage is _____.

A. when the Internet came into being

B. how Tim Berners-Lee formed W3C

C. why computers develop so rapidly

D. how the World Wide Web started

3. Scientists began to communicate using e-mail _____.

A. in 1980

B. after the 1980s

C. before 1990

D. in the 1960s

4. He made up his mind to write a programme that would let people from across the world share information on a single place when _____.

A. he was a child

B. he studied in Oxford University

C. he formed W3C

D. he worked at a lab in Switzerland

5. Which of the following is NOT true？ _____

A. The number of web pages rose very rapidly in the 1990s.

B. Tim's programmes were placed on to the Internet in 1990.

C. The World Wide Web will have an effect on the social development.

D. Tim Berners-Lee made a great contribution to the computer science.

On Christmas Day 1990, in a laboratory in Switzerland, British physicist Tim Berners-Lee finished developing the tools to create the World Wide Web. He was working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, Cern, in Geneva.

His boss gave him the green light to work on the project during his spare time and together with the help of his Belgian colleague Robert Cailliau, Tim Berners-Lee produced the world’s first web page.

The experiment heralded a new era because it demonstrated how computers could talk to each other through a new language they created called Hyper-Text Markup Language, or HTML.

Currently there might be anything up to a trillion web pages with all sorts of content. People buy and sell products and services, make friends through these pages, learn and teach. We found many enthusiasts of the web in the streets of London.

Man 1: “It means having information in your home with easy access which in the past would have only been available in thousands of libraries. So it’s information at your fingertips.”

Woman: “Access to a lot of people really. We’ve got a lot of family overseas so we use Skype quite a bit.”

Man 2: “Information, news, social groups.”

Man 3: “I’m just using it usually for emails and social networking with my friends and well, reading newspapers and information. Basically everything!”

Fortunes were made in the World Wide Web. Many say that Tim Berners-Lee could have been a billionaire through his invention but he said that all he wants is to keep the egalitarian spirit of the web intact and the medium free to use. Many users share the same ideals.

21. What is this passage talking about？_______

A. The birth of the World Wide Web.

B. The biography of a physicist.

C. The importance of the first web page.

D. The application of some HTML.

22. Who is Tim Berners-Lee？_____

A. An internet user.

B. A physicist won the Nobel Prize.

C. A physicist who also designed the first web page.

D. A write who writes in a brand new language.

23. Where were the people interviewed？________

A. Bern.

B. London.

C. Geneva.

D. An unknown city in England.

24. Which of the following best describes the interviewees’ attitudes towards the internet？_______

A. Fearful.

B. Indifferent.

C. Distanced.

D. Enthusiastic

25. Which of the following is incorrect about the application of the Web？_______

A. It can be used in many ways.

B. It has become very popular among average people.

C. The inventor of the internet hopes everybody has access to medium.

D. It was designed by a government official in Europe.

A.his sister did so

B.so his sister did

C.did his sister so

D.so did his sister

A.take off

B.take on

C.put off

D.put on

Tim didn't go to work. He cleared up the flat. (用insteadof将两句合成一句)

A.As

B.Where

C.What

D.That

A.A.he

B.B.him

-Did Mike phone you or Tim？

-No, he didn't phone_____ us.

A. either of

B. both of

C. neither of

A.will be

B.be

C.has been

D.is