"TURN ON THE RADIO FOR ME PLEASE” SAID MY MOTHER.MY MOT...

10. "Turn on the radio for me please” said my mother.

My mother asked

Question 5: Read the text carefully and choose the best answer to fill in

the gap .

BIRTH OF THE COMPUTER.

Most people think of the computers as very modern inventions, products

of our new technological age. But actually the idea for a computer(1)…...

worked out over two centuries ago by a man (2)…. Charles Babbage.

Babbage was born (3)…..1791 and grew up to be a brilliant mathematician

.He drew up plans for several caculating machine (4)….

He called “engines”. But despite the fact that (5…. .building some of these

he never finished any of them . Over the years people have argued (6)…..

His machines would ever work . Recently, however, the Science Museum in

Lodon has finished building (7…...engine based on one of Babbage’s

designs.

(8)….. Has taken six years to complete and more (9)……….

four thousand parts have been specially made . Whether it works or not , the

machine will be

show at a special exhibition in the Science Museum (10)…….remind

people of Babbage’s work .