2. The Internet e-mail web pages data software hardware shopping download chatting website

3. download music What can we do on the Internet?

4. do online shopping

5. search for information

6. chat on the Internet

7. send e-mails to friends

8. dataweb network The Internet is the biggest source of information in the world and it’s accessible through a computer. It consists of millions of pages of data.

9. Tim Berners-Lee In 1991, he invented the World Wide Web. Everyone in the world can access the Internet using his World Wide Web system.

10. 1) “Who” developed a way for computers to “talk” to each other through the telephone? Fast Reading DARPA, a US defence organization. 2) Who made it possible for everyone to use the Internet? Tim Berners-Lee. 3) Has the Internet created thousands of millionaires? Yes, it has.

11. Para 2 Answer the questions. Did the universities start using the Internet at the same time as the army? If not, which earlier? No, they didn’t. The army started earlier.

12. Para 3 Check the following sentences true or false. 1. The World Wide Web is a computer network. ( ) 2. It allows computer users to access information from millions of websites via the Internet. ( ) 3. At the moment about 80 percent of web traffic is in Chinese. ( ) T T F

13. Para 4 Choose the best choice according to the text. 1. The World Wide Web was invented in ____ by an English scientist. A. 1991 B. 1990 C. 1992 D. 1993 A 2. Tim Berners-Lee came up with the idea of the World Wide Web in 1989 while he was working in_____. A. Switzerland B. Swiss C. England D. America A

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15. ___________________ the web and the Internet _____. Everyone in the world can access the Internet _____ his World Wide Web system. grew using From that moment on

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