Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
The goal of Internet-based encyclopedia Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org) is to give everyone on the planet access to information. Like other encyclopedias, Wikipedia contains lots of information: more than 2.5 million articles in 200 different languages covering just about every subject. Unlike other encyclopedias, however, Wikepedia is not written by experts, but by ordinary people.These writers are not paid and their names are not published. They contribute to Wikipedia simply because they want to share their knowledge.
Encyclopedias began in ancient times as collections of writings about all aspects of human knowledge. The word itself comes from ancient Greek, and means “a complete general education”. Real popularity for encyclopedias came in the nineteenth century in Europe and the United States, with the publication of encyclopedias written for ordinary readers. With the invention of the CD-ROM, the same amount of information could be put on a few computer discs. Then with the Internet, it became possible to create an online encyclopedia that could be constantly updated, like Microsoft’s Encarta. However, even Internet-based encyclopedias like Encarta were written by paid experts. At first, Wikipedia, the brainchild of Jimmy Wales, a businessman in Chicago, was not so different from these. In 2001, he had the idea for an Internet-based encyclopedia that would provide information quickly and easily to everyone. Furthermore, that information would be available free, unlike other Internet encyclopedias at that time.
But Wales, like everyone else, believed that people with special knowledge were needed to write the articles, and so he began by hiring experts. He soon changed his approach, however, as it took them a long time to finish their work. He decided to open up the encyclopedia in a radical new way, so that everyone would have access not only to the information, but also to the process of putting this information online. To do this, he used what is known as “Wiki” software (from the Hawaiian word for “fast”), which allows users to create or alter content on web page. The system is very simple: When you open the web site, you can simply search for information or you can log on to become a writer or editor of articles. If you find an article that interests you – about your hometown, for example – you can correct it or expand it. This process goes on until no one is interested in making any more changes.
Microsoft’s Encarta is cited in the passage as an example of ____.
A. CD-ROM dictionary
B. printed encyclopedia
C. online encyclopedia
D. updateable online encyclopedia
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Đáp án : C
Chọn C “online encyclopedia” dựa vào câu “Then with the Internet, it became possible to create an online encyclopedia that could be constantly updated, like Microsoft’s Encarta.”
Students are often advised to look at the first and last_________of a book before attempting to read it in details.
The song has ______ been selected for the 22nd Sea Games, Vietnam.
Kitchen appliances called blenders became ______ in the 1930s, when Stephen B. Poplawski developed a machine that excelled at making his favorite drink
It is possible ______ may assist some trees in saving water in the winter.
Although he hadn’t spoken French for many years, he picked it _____ again after a few weeks
Chosen as the nation’s capital at the end of the American Civil War, ______ the city of over a million people
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in each of the followings.
I couldn’t see what she was doing. It was so dark down there.
People usually can get sufficient ______ of the calcium their bodies need from the food they consume.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress
