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Through Berners-Lee's invention, all his family members and colleagues have become rich.
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Through Berners-Lee's invention, all his family members and colleagues have become rich.
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第1题
The Father of the World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee, who received one million euros ($1.2 million) cash prize for creating the World Wide Web, says he would never have succeeded if he had charged money for his inventions. "If I had tried to demand tees, ... there would be no World Wide Web," Berners-Lee, 49, said on June 5 at a ceremony for winning the first Millennium Technology Prize, awarded by the Finnish Technology Award Foundation. "There would be lots of small webs," the prize committee agreed, citing the importance of Berners-Lee's decision never to commercialize or patent his contributions to the Internet technologies he had developed, and recognizing his revolutionary contribution to humanity's ability to communicate.
His creation spun a generation of youthful millionaires and billionaires, lit the spark for the New Economy and paved the way for massive new industries such as e-commerce. Burners-Lee, who is originally from Britain, has mostly avoided both the fame and the fortune won by many of his Internet colleagues. Despite his prize, he remained modest about his achievements. "I was just taking lots of things that already existed and added a little bit," said Berners-Lee, who now runs the standard-setting World Wide Web Consortium from an office at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
"Building the Web, I didn't do it all myself," he said. "The really exciting thing about it is that it was done by lots and lots of people, connected with this tremendous spirit." Berners-Lee indeed took concepts that had been well known to engineers since the 1960s, but it was he who saw the value of marrying them. Pekka Tarjanne, chairman of the prize committee, said "no one doubts who the father of file World Wide Web is, except Berners-Lee himself." Finnish President Tarja Halonen presented the biannual (一年两次的)award, subsidized by the government. The cash prize is among the largest of this kind, and Berners-Lee is the first recipient.
The prize committee outlined the award to be given for "an outstanding innovation that directly promotes people's quality of life, is based on human values and encourages sustainable economic development." "Isn't this like a definition of the World Wide Web'?" Tarjanne asked. Berners-lee first proposed the Web in 1989 while developing ways to control computers remotely at European Laboratory for Particle Physics, the European nuclear research lab near Geneva. He never got the project formally approved, but his boss suggested he quietly tinker (摆弄) with it anyway. He fleshed out the core communication protocols (草案) needed for transmitting Web pages. By Christmas Day in 1990, he finished the first browser, called simply "World Wide Web." Although his inventions have under- gone rapid changes since then, the underlying technology is precisely the same.
His recent project -- which experts say is potentially as revolutionary as the World Wide Web itself -- is called the Semantic Web. The project is an attempt to standardize how information is stored on the Internet. "It is an exciting new development that we're making," he said. In his acceptance speech, Berners-Lee focused on technology as an evolving process that was just in the beginning. "All sorts of things, too long for me to list here, are still out there waiting to be done.... There are so many new things to make, limited only by our imagination," he said. "And I think it's important for anybody who's going through school or college wondering what to do, to remember that now."
For years, the British scientist's colleagues have said that if computer science was a pure science, Mr. Berners-Lee would have merited a Nobel Prize for his invention. He did receive a knighthood this year, but for the most part his name remains unknown to the masses who use his creation every day. "His picture belongs up on a wall with Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell," sai
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第2题
Now Berners-Lee is doing a new project which has nothing to do with the Internet.
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第3题
Had he wanted, Berners-Lee could have______.
A.created the most important innovation in the 1990s
B.accumulated as much personal wealth as Bill Gates
C.patented the technology of Microsoft software
D.given his brainchild to us all
第6题
Most users of the Internet know clearly that Berners-Lee is the creator of the Website.
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第7题
No one knows who the father of the World Wide Web is, except Berners-lee himself.
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第8题
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第9题
Tim Berners-Lee is the man who wrote the software(软件)programme that led to the foundation of the World Wide Web. Britain played an important part in developing the first generation of computers. The parents of Tim Berners-Lee both worked on one of the earliest commercial(商业的)computers and talked about their work at home. As a child he would build models of computers from packaging material. After graduating from Oxford University he went on to the real thing. In the 1980s scientists were already communicating using a primitive version(原始版本)of e-mail. While working at a laboratory in Switzerland, Tim Berners-Lee wrote a programme, which let him store these messages. This gave him another idea: write a programme that will let academics(学术界人士)from across the world share information on a single place. In 1990 he wrote the HTTP(服务程序所用的协议)and HTML(超文本链接标示语言)programmes which form. the basis of the World Wide Web.
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.
第10题
关于互联网(Internet)与万维网(WWW),下列说法正确的是
A.从概念上讲,万维网可以看作是互联网的一个用户界面,提高了互联网的易用性。
B.万维网是互联网的一个子集,由互联网中的Web服务器和Web客户机构成。
C.互联网提供的服务就是Web服务,即网页浏览服务。
D.万维网的概念是由蒂姆·伯纳斯·李(Tim Berners-Lee)于1991年5月提出的。
E.在互联网中,人们通过Web浏览器浏览网页,可见,Web客户机就是指Web浏览器。
F.在互联网中,大多数电子邮件都是通过网页形式收发的,可见Email服务也是Web服务。