高二英语阅读训练

　　B. favors an early start in the training of performing arts

　　C. feels uncomfortable about children putting on night shows

　　D. doubts the standard of ordinary education they have reached.

　　C

　　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(第一代) 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 1980's,scientists were already 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. 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(系统). 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 participate(参加) equally on the Web.

　　9. The main idea of this passage is_____.

　　A. when the internet appeared B. how Tim Bernet formed W3C

　　C. why computers develop so rapidly D. how the World Wide Web started

　　10. Scientists began to use E-mail_____.

　　A. in 1980 B. after the 1980's B. before 1990 D. in the 1960's

　　11. Which of the following is not true?

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

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

　　C. The World Wide Web will have an effect (影响)on social development.

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

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