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COMPRENSIÓN DE TEXTOS 4. What happened after Tim-Berners graduated

from the university?
1-10
a. He created a computer from a TV
AN ORDINARY LIFE AN AMAZING IDEA b. He went to work in Switzerland
Tim Berners-Lee looks very ordinary. He’s about c. He had the idea of the World Wide Web
fifty years old and has brown hair He was born d. He got a job with a computer company
in England but now lives in Massachusetts in the
USA. But in 1989 Tim had a very important idea 5. Where did he first have the idea of an
He invented the world wide web (www) Tim international network?
went to school in London. Both his parents
worked with computers so it is not surprising a. In England
that he loved computers from an early age. b. In Switzerland
When he was eighteen, he left school and went c. In USA
to Oxford University where he studied physics. d. In Oxford
At Oxford he became more and more interested
in computers, and he made his first computer 6. Why don’t we pay to use the internet today?
from an old television. He graduated in 1976
and got a job with a computer company in a. Because the government pays for the
Dorset, England. In 1989, he went to work in service
Switzerland where he first had the idea of an b. Because the internet is free around the
international information network linked by world
computer He decided to call it the world wide c. Because his creator decided to make
web, and he also decided to make his ideas free his ideas free to everyone
to everyone-that is why today we don’t pay to d. Because the web is a universe of
use the internet.In 1994 he went to live in the information free to everyone.
United States where he now works. In 1995 he
wrote an article in the New York Times where he 7. Why did he love computers from an early
said “The web is the universe of information and age?
it is for everyone” Today his idea of a web,
where people from all over the world can a. Because he studied physics
exchange information, is real. b. Because he made his firs computers
from a TV
1. Where was Tim-Berners born? c. Because his parents worked with
computers
a. Massachusetts d. Because he worked with computers
b. Oxford when he left school
c. England
d. Switzerland 8. How old was he when he left school?

2. Where did Tim-Berners live? a. He was 18

b. He were 18
a. England c. He had 18
b. USA d. He did 18
c. New York
d. Dorset 9. Where did he have his first job?

3. What did Tim-Berners do after leaving school? a. Switzerland

b. Dorset
a. He invented the world wide web c. England
b. He became interested in computers d. USA
c. He went to Oxford University
d. He got a job in a computer company 10. Where does he live now?

a. England
b. USA
c. Switzerland
d. Dorse
 19. A dog _________ (run) after us while we
CONSTRUCCIÓN DE ORACIONES were walking to school.

11-20 a. Ran
b. Was running
11. We ______at the party and had a good c. Were running
time. d. Was ran
20. The bird_________ (try) to fly when the cat
a. Were caught it.
b. Was
c. Were not a. Were trying
d. Was not b. Was trying
c. Tried
12. I _____tired last night so I went to bed. d. Tried

a. Were CONSTRUCCIÓN DE PÁRRAFOS

b. Was
c. Were not 21-25
d. Was not
Jack Jones and his wife, Carla who is Brazilian,
both work at the Mansfield hotel in midtown
13. This time last year I_____ in Rome. Manhattan, Jack is a receptionist and Carla
works in the hotel bar.
a. Were Jack says: “millions of people (1) visit New York
b. Was every year. Our hotel (2) 124 rooms, and visitors
c. Were not (3) from all over the world, especially from south
d. Did America and Europe. I (4) English, German, and
Spanish. I (5) Japanese, but I want to learn it.

14. Where______ your parents last week? 21.

a. Visit
a. Were b. Visits
b. Was c. Doesn`t visit
c. did d. None of these
d. Was not 22.
a. Have
15. _________three apples on the table today. b. Haves
a. There was c. Has
b. There were d. Don`t have
c. There wasn`t 23.
d. There weren`t a. Comes
b. Come
16. _________a cat near the school today. c. Plays
a. There was d. Doesn`t come
b. There were
c. There wasn`t 24.
d. There weren`t a. talks
b. Speak
c. Speaks
17. When she called us we _________ (correct) d. Play
our exercises.
a. Was correcting 25.
b. Were correcting a. Don`t speak
c. Corrected b. Doesn`t speak
d. Was corrected c. Don`t speaks
d. Doesn`t speaks
18. The cat _________ (sleep) in the yard when
it started to rain.

a. Slept
b. Was sleeping
c. Were sleeping
d. Were sleeping