VIII. Put the text back together. Number these lines in the correct order.
( ) | edge products made Apple a powerful brand with a loyal following. Jobs also enjoyed considerable | ||||||||||||||||||||
( ) | Jobs was born in San Francisco in 1955. He became interested in computers when he was a teenager and attended lectures | ||||||||||||||||||||
( ) | advice for success is: “You’ve got to find what you love." He died in October 2011, aged 56. | ||||||||||||||||||||
( ) | enough money to backpack around India and then returned to Atari, where he met Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. | ||||||||||||||||||||
( ) | success at Pixar. He created Oscar-winning movies such as ‘Toy Story’ and ‘Finding Nemo’. Jobs’ | ||||||||||||||||||||
( ) | built the computer on which the World Wide Web was created. He developed a passion | ||||||||||||||||||||
( ) | iPad. He was a much-respected corporate leader whose management style is studied | ||||||||||||||||||||
( ) | Jobs and Wozniak founded Apple in 1976. Jobs persuaded Wozniak to make a computer and sell it. Together, | ||||||||||||||||||||
( ) | for style and functional perfection, which became Apple trademarks. | ||||||||||||||||||||
( ) | Jobs guided Apple to be a major player in the digital revolution. The introduction of the iMac and other cutting- | ||||||||||||||||||||
( ) | worldwide. His attention to design, function and style has won him millions of fans. | ||||||||||||||||||||
( ) | they developed the Mac. It was the first small computer with a user-friendly interface to be commercially successful. Jobs also | ||||||||||||||||||||
( ) | after school at Hewlett Packard. In 1974, Jobs got a job as a technician at the video game maker Atari. He saved | ||||||||||||||||||||
( ) | Steve Jobs was the co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc. and former CEO of Pixar Animation Studios. He was the largest | ||||||||||||||||||||
( ) | individual shareholder in Walt Disney. Jobs’ name is associated with innovative products like the iPod, iPhone, iTunes and IX. These sentences are scrambled. Put the words back into the correct order.
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Text B. Tim Berners- Lee – inventor of WWW
Sir Timothy Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web. He received a knighthood from the British Queen for his efforts (so he is called ‘Sir’). He is director of W3C, which looks after the Web’s development. A leading British newspaper ranked him as the world’s greatest living genius. Today’s world would be very different without his discovery.
Berners-Lee was born in 1955 to parents who were mathematicians and computer scientists. He grew up with numbers and electronics and managed to build his own computer. He went to Oxford University and was banned from using the computers for hacking. Berners-Lee graduated with a degree in physics. His first jobs after graduating were as a computer programmer and software developer.
Berners-Lee spent the 1980s on a project based on sharing and updating information online. In 1991, he put the first website online. It explained what the World Wide Web was and how it was used. He gave his idea to the world for free. In 1994, Berners-Lee founded W3C to set standards and improve the quality of the Web.
Berners-Lee now spends his time between W3C and as a professor of computer science in England. He also writes about the future of the Web. In 2004, he was named as the first ever winner of the Millennium Technology Prize. He has a string of other awards and is listed as one of ‘Time’ magazine’s 100 most important people of the 20th Century.
Sources: http://www.wikipedia.org/ and assorted biographies.
I. Match the words from the article on the left with their synonyms on the right.
1. | received | a. | invention |
leading | b. | attended | |
3. | discovery | c. | top |
4. | build | d. | stopped |
5. | went to | e. | got |
6. | banned | f. | make |
7. | based on | g. | Internet |
8. | set | h. | presently |
9. | improve | i. | put down |
10. | now | j. | centred around |
11. | Web | k. | series |
12. | string | l. | upgrade |
II. Match the following phrases from the article:
1. | the world’s greatest | a. | world for free | |
2. | Today’s world would be very different | b. | a degree in physics | |
3. | He grew up with | c. | the future of the Web | |
4. | banned from using the computers | d. | living genius | |
5. | Berners-Lee graduated with | e. | of other awards | |
6. | a project based on sharing | f. | numbers and electronics | |
7. | He gave his idea to the | g. | for hacking | |
8. | set standards and improve | h. | and updating information | |
9. | He also writes about | i. | without his discovery | |
10. | He has a string | j. | the quality of the Web |
III. Delete the wrong word in each of the pairs in italics.
Sir Timothy Berners-Lee is a British / Briton computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web. He received a nightcap / knighthood from the British Queen for his efforts (so he is called ‘Sir’). He is director of W3C, which looks up / after the Web’s development. A leading British newspaper ranked him as the world’s greatest living genius. Today’s world would be very different without his discovered / discovery.
Berners-Lee was born in 1955 to parents who were mathematics / mathematicians and computer scientists. He grown / grew up with numbers and electronics and managed to build his own computer. He went to Oxford University and was banned / binned from using the computers for hacking. Berners-Lee graduated with a degree in physics. His first jobs after graduating were as a computer programmer and software development / developer.
Berners-Lee spent the 1980s as / on a project based on sharing and updating information online. In 1991, he put / took the first website online. It explained what the World Wide Web was and how it was using / used. He gave his idea to the world for free. In 1994, Berners-Lee founded W3C to / by set standards and improve the quality of the Web.
Berners-Lee now spending / spends his time between W3C and as / was a professor of computer science in England. He also wrote / writes about the future of the Web. In 2004, he was named as the first ever winner of the Millennium Technology Prize. He has a string / rope of other awards and is listed as one of ‘Time’ magazine’s 100 most important people of the 20th Century.
IV. The underlined, jumbled words are from the text. Spell them correctly.
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