IV. Fill in the Blanks
The Internet is the biggest source of information in the world, consisting of millions of pages of data. In 1969, DARPA, __41__ US defense organization, developed a way for all their computers to “talk” to each other through the telephone. They created a network of computers and only the US army could use __42__ in the following 15 years. Then in 1984, the US National Science Foundation started the NSF network, also known __43__ the Inter-network or “Internet”. It then became possible for universities to use the system as well. The World Wide Web, __44__ (invent) in 1991 by an English scientist, Tim Berners-Lee, is a computer network that makes the information from millions of websites accessible to computer users. At the moment, about 80 % of web traffic is __45__ English, but by 2020, Chinese could take the lead. Obviously, it was Berners-Lee __46__ made it possible for everyone to use the Internet, not just the universities and the army. He designed the first “web browser”, __47__ allowed computer users to access documents from other computers. With the web and the Internet __48__ (grow), the number of Internet users rose __49___ (rapid) from 600,000 to 40 million within 5 years. So far, the Internet __50__ (create) thousands of millionaires all over the world, but Berners-Lee is not one of them.
IV:
a it as invented in
who/that which growing rapidly has created
The Internet is the biggest source of information in the world, consisting of millions of pages of data. In 1969, DARPA, __41__ US defense organization, developed a way for all their computers to “talk” to each other through the telephone. They created a network of computers and only the US army could use __42__ in the following 15 years. Then in 1984, the US National Science Foundation started the NSF network, also known __43__ the Inter-network or “Internet”. It then became possible for universities to use the system as well. The World Wide Web, __44__ (invent) in 1991 by an English scientist, Tim Berners-Lee, is a computer network that makes the information from millions of websites accessible to computer users. At the moment, about 80 % of web traffic is __45__ English, but by 2020, Chinese could take the lead. Obviously, it was Berners-Lee __46__ made it possible for everyone to use the Internet, not just the universities and the army. He designed the first “web browser”, __47__ allowed computer users to access documents from other computers. With the web and the Internet __48__ (grow), the number of Internet users rose __49___ (rapid) from 600,000 to 40 million within 5 years. So far, the Internet __50__ (create) thousands of millionaires all over the world, but Berners-Lee is not one of them.
IV:
a it as invented in
who/that which growing rapidly has created
