1.

Choose the title that best describes the text:

a. The beginning of technology

b. b. Computers in the 21st century
c. The History of Computers
d. The internet
2. Read the text about computers again and write TRUE or FALSE in front
of each sentence.

a. Early computers were very big and could do math: TRUE

b. Microchips are very small and store lots of information: TRUE
c. Alan Turing invented the microchip in 1958: TRUE
d. People started to use computers at home in the 1970s: FALSE
e. The World Wide Web was created in 1979: FALSE
f. The first computer mouse was made of plastic: FALSE

3. Select the correct answer.

How many people use the internet?

a. Three billion people b. Three million people c. Two billion
people

Who invented the World Wide Web?

a. Alan Turing b. Tim Berners-Lee c. Jack Kilby

When were computer games very popular?

a. In 1958 b. In the 1970s c. In the 1980s

4. Mention something new that you learned about computers and that you
did not know before.

What I learned was that I did not know that the mouse was made of wood
and that computers from many years ago were very large and started to
become famous for games.