The next year his programmes were placed on to the Internet. Everyone was welcome to use them and improve them if they could. Programmers used his codes(编码)to work with different operating systems. New things like web browsers(浏览器)and search engines were developed. Between 1991 and 1994 the number of web pages rose from 10 to 100,000.
In 1994 Tim Berners-Lee formed the newly formed World Wide Web Consortium(协会),or W3C. More than 200 leading companies and laboratories are represented(代表)by W3C. Together they make sure that everyone can share equally on the web. "The Web can help people understand the way that others live and love and are human. It helps us understand the humanity of people, "he says.
1. From the lines we can infer that Tim Berners-Lee is _____.
A. British
B. American
C. Swiss
D. French
2. The main idea of this passage is _____.
A. when the Internet came into being
B. how Tim Berners-Lee formed W3C
C. why computers develop so rapidly
D. how the World Wide Web started
3. Scientists began to communicate using e-mail _____.
A. in 1980
B. after the 1980s
C. before 1990
D. in the 1960s
4. He made up his mind to write a programme that would let people from across the world share information on a single place when _____.
A. he was a child
B. he studied in Oxford University
C. he formed W3C
D. he worked at a lab in Switzerland
5. Which of the following is NOT true? _____
A. The number of web pages rose very rapidly in the 1990s.
B. Tim's programmes were placed on to the Internet in 1990.
C. The World Wide Web will have an effect on the social development.
D. Tim Berners-Lee made a great contribution to the computer science.