I. Fill in the blanks in the sentences below with one of these words taken from the reading

I. Answer these multiple-choice questions to see how well you understood the reading.

Exercises

1. The reading discusses a number of developments in the growth of the Internet. Which of the following puts these features in the correct chronological order?

(A) ARPANET, World Wide Web, e-mail, spam

(B) ARPANET, e-mail, World Wide Web, spam

(C) Internet, spam, web browsers, e-mail

(D) Spam, e-mail, World Wide Web, Internet

2. In which of these did Dr. Licklider describe his vision of a «galactic network»?

(A) A science fiction novel

(B) series of journal articles

(C) An e-mail

(D) A number of memos

3. During the first test of ARPANET, what had Professor Kleinrock typed when the system crashed?

(A) LOGIN

(B) UCLA

(C) His name

(D) LOG

4. What does the author say about the first test of ARPANET?

(A) Although the system crashed, a long-distance computer network was shown to be an achievable goal.

(B) It was a total failure, but it taught the teams some valuable lessons.

(C) It was successful, but it proved to be a waste of time and money.

(D) The test was never carried out because of a lack of money and resources.

5. Who was mainly responsible for the development of the World Wide Web?

(A) Tim Berners-Lee

(B) J. C. R Licklider

(C) Robert Cailliau

(D) Ray Tomlinson

6. Look at this e-mail address: [email protected]. Which of these parts of the e-mail address did Ray Tomlinson first think of?

(A) brog74

(B) @

(C) unicolo

(D).

7. Which of the following was NOT mentioned as an advantage of e-mail in the paper written by J. C. R. Licklider and Albert Vezza?

(A) E-mail does not have to be typed carefully.

(B) E-mail is free to users.

(C) A record is kept of all e-mails.

(D) No preliminary small talk is required.

8. Which of these might have been one of the first e-mails sent by Ray Tomlinson?

(A) Hello, Ray!

(B) QWERTYIOP

(C) LOGIN

(D) SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM

9. Who sang the word «SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM» over and over in the Monty Python skit?

(A) Clowns

(B) Talking animals

(C) Waiters and waitresses

(D) Vikings

10. What was the first known spam message about?

(A) Canned meat products

(B) Legal services

(C) An upcoming Monty Python show

(D) Parties being held to show off a new computer

annoying

blueprint

brilliant

canned

charge

chastised

chorus

drowning out

enlisted

facilities

gap

milestones

mushrooming

preview

recalls

scenic

scholars

simultaneously

skit

successors

tasks

tersely

text

unsolicited

volume

1) Joan and her friends performed a comedy ____________________ and sang a few songs for the talent show.

2) Fresh fruits and vegetables are healthier foods than ____________________ fruits and vegetables.

3) The fjords of Norway are one of the most ____________________ natural areas of Europe. The Swiss Alps, of course, are also very beautiful.

4) Since the southern part of this province was declared a special tax-free industrial zone, the population has been ____________________. More and more people have been moving here because there are so many well-paying jobs available.

5) I find the pop-up advertisements on the web very ____________________ I wish there was some way to eliminate them.

6) I enjoyed looking at the pictures on that website, but I couldn't read the ____________________ because it was written in Bulgarian.

7) I could barely hear the lyrics of the song. The electric guitars and drums were ____________________ the singer's voice.

8) The Fulbright program allows ____________________ from the United States to study abroad, and academics from many countries to study in the United States.

9) Mr. and Mrs. Tang plan to use their digital camcorder to document all the ____________________ of their son's childhood, including his first birthday party, his first day of school, and his first soccer game.

10) Some publishing companies do not accept ____________________ manuscripts. If an author sends a publisher material that it has not requested, the publisher immediately returns it.

III. These statements come from the reading «Internet Milestones». Read each statement and then answer the questions that follow.

In 1962, Dr. J. C. R. Licklider, a visionary scientist, wrote a series of memoranda in which he described what he called a "galactic network."

1. A visionary scientist is one who …

(A) foresees the future.

(B) has had many successes.

(C) studies human eyesight.

He created a blueprint for the Internet long before it existed.

2. In this statement, a blueprint is a …

(A) carefully designed plan.

(B) design for a house.

(C) name.

By the early 1990s, Internet use was mushrooming.

3. If the use of something is mushrooming, it …

(A) has become stable.

(B) is growing rapidly.

(C) has roots in the past.

By 2002, there were an astonishing 605.6 million users across the globe in every nation.

4. A synonym for astonishing is …

(A) approximate.

(B) amazing.

(C) estimated.

Because CERN is so huge and complicated, with hundreds of projects going on simultaneously, Berners-Lee developed a hypertext system to keep track of which scientists were working on which project and what resources they were using.

5. To keep track of a project is to …

(A) simplify it.

(B) begin it.

(C) monitor it.

«One of the advantages of the message systems overletter mail was that, in an ARPANET message, one could write tersely and type imperfectly...»

6. If a person writes tersely, he or she writes …

(A) with grammatical and spelling mistakes.

(B) briefly.

(C) in an educated style.

«Among the advantages of the network message services over the telephone was the fact that one could proceed immediately to the point without having to engage in small talk first...»

7. Small talk is …

(A) a message written in small print.

(B) a short speech.

(C) polite, meaningless chat.

Spam can be defined as electronic junkmail, or unsolicited commercial messages sent to a large number of e-mail addresses. It takes its name from SPAM, a canned lunch meat made by the Hormel Company of Minnesota. The lunch meat was popularized by a British comedy group known as Monty Python's Flying Circus. In one Monty Python skit, a group of Vikings in a restaurant keeps singing the word «SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM» over and over, in increasing volume, drowning out other conversations, until they are told to shut up. Unwanted e-mail has many of the same characteristics as this chorus: It repeats itself, it is annoying, it interferes with communication, and it is difficult to stop.

8. Find and write down the word that has the same meaning as unsolicited.

9.A skit is a …

(A) related group of songs.

(B) short, funny act.

(C) group of comedic actors.

10. If something is annoying, it is …

(A) irritating.

(B) informative.

(C) repetitive.

They were chastised for breaking the ARPANET rules.

11. When someone is chastised, he or she is …

(A) criticized.

(B) forgiven.

(C) made famous.

Anti-spam software has been developed as well, but it is not very effective; it never eliminates all junk e-mail and it sometimes filters out legitimate messages.

12. Write down the word closest in meaning to filters out.

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