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24. Read the answers. Write the questions using the words in brackets.
1 No, they aren't. ________________________________________ (they / going /
play / piano / tomorrow)
2 We went to the mountains. ________________________________________ (where /
you / go / at / weekend)
3 Yes, there were. ________________________________________ (there / any / taxis /
at / station)
4 Yes, I'd love to! ________________________________________ (you / like / come /
cinema / me)
25. Read the text and answer the questions. Write complete answers.
The birth of the internet
Nowadays, lots of people use the internet for fun, but in the beginning it was for very
serious work. The internet started as Arpanet. The US government built it for defence. It
started slowly, but in 1969, some scientists in California connected four computers
together and the internet was born! Before the internet, in 1965, scientist Tim Nelson
invented Hypertext. This was a very clever way to connect two documents together.
Many years later, in 1990, British scientist Tim Berners-Lee used this idea to make a
new computer language. He called it HTML. Today, most people write their web pages
using it. Many people say that Tim Berners-Lee invented the internet. This is not really
true, but he was very important in its development. For example, HTML is a very easy
language to write. So anyone can write a web page. Tim Berners-Lee made the internet
available to everyone, not to just a few scientists in laboratories. However, there was
one other key invention the browser. This is a computer program like Windows
Explorer, or Mozilla. You need it to see web pages. The first very successful browser
was Netscape Navigator. It changed its name in 1999 and became Mozilla. With no
browsers, you can't see HTML, so they make it possible for everyone to explore the
wide, wide world of the internet.