Berners-Lee: Multiple Choice Vocabulary Test

Sir Timothy Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist who (0) _________ the World Wide Web. He (1) _________a knighthood from the British queen for his efforts (so he is called «Sir»). He is director of W3C, which looks after the Web's development. A leading British newspaper (2) _________him as the world's greatest living genius. Today's world would be very different without his (3) _________ .

Berners-Lee was born in 1955 to parents who were mathematicians and computer scientists.

He (4) _________with numbers and electronics and managed to build his own computer. He (5) _________to Oxford University and was banned from using the computers for hacking. Berners-Lee graduated with a degree in physics. His first job after graduating was as a computer programmer and software (6) _________ .

Berners-Lee spent the 1980s on a (7) _________based on sharing and updating information online. In 1991, he put the first website online. It explained what the World Wide (8) _________was and how it was used. He gave his idea to the world for (9) _________ . In 1994, Berners-Lee founded W3C to set standards and improve the quality of the Web.

Berners-Lee now spends his (10) _________between W3C and as a professor of computer science in England. He also writes about the future of the Web.