7. Read the text below and choose the correct word for each space. Birth of the Computer

Most people think of computers as very modern inventions, products of our new technological age. But actually the idea for a computer (1) ____________ worked out over two centuries ago by a man (2) ____________ Charles Babbage.

Babbage was born (3) ____________ 1791 and grew up to be a brilliant mathematician. He drew up plans for several calculating machines (4) ____________ he called ‘engines’. But despite the fact that he (5) ____________ building some of these he never finished any of them. Over the years people have argued (6) ____________ his machines would ever work. Recently, however, the Science Museum in London has finished building (7) ____________ engine based on one of Babbage’s designs. (8) ____________ has taken six years to complete and more (9) ____________ four thousand parts have been specially made. Whether it works or not, the machine will be on show at a special exhibition in the Science Museum (10) ____________ remind people of Babbage’s work.

1.	A.	has	B.	was	C.	had	D.	is
2.	A.	known	B.	recognized	C.	written	D.	called
3.	A.	on	B.	in	C.	by	D.	for
4.	A.	whose	B.	who	C.	these	D.	which
5.	A.	wanted	B.	made	C.	started	D.	missed
6.	A.	until	B.	whether	C.	while	D.	though
7.	A.	some	B.	the	C.	an	D.	that
8.	A.	One	B.	He	C.	They	D.	It
9.	A.	than	B.	therefore	C.	when	D.	then
10.	A.	t o	B.	as	C.	for	D.	so

8. Put the correct word from the box after each definition.

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1. Money you must pay to access some sites is ____________ .

2. Wide, rectangular advert on top of many sites is ____________ .

3. Take a file from internet and put onto your computer is ____________ .

4. Program your computer uses to see internet, e.g. Internet Explorer is ____________ .

5. Small advert which jumps up above the page you are reading is ____________ .

6. An amount of information. An average web page is about 20 is ____________ .

7. The words you type in when looking on a search engine is ____________ .

8. A web site which acts like the centre of many other services like news, e-mail, shops. e.g. Yahoo is ____________ .

9. Web site you can use to find other web sites relevant to your interests is ____________ .

10. The address of a web site. e.g. http://www.cnn.com is ____________ .

11. Small file that sites put onto your PC with information about your visits to their sites from the past is ____________ .

12. Machine that connects your computer to the net via the telephone is ____________ .