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Reading Questions

Choose the best answer.

1. How long have computers been around?

a. approximately 3,000 years
b. approximately 50 years
c. approximately 100 years
d. approximately 5,000 years

2. Which type of technology is mentioned last in the passage?
a. large room-sized computers
b. the abacus

c. robots
d. desktop computers

3. Which of the following allowed desktop computers to be built?

a. the First World War
b. miniaturization of parts
c. the Second World War

d. the development of artificial intelligence technologies

4. Which of the following is a difference between desktop and room-sized
computers?

a. Room-sized computers had greater capabilities than desktop computers.
b. Desktop computers process data with a CPU.
c. Room-size computers have been around since about 3000 B.C.
d. Desktop computers have greater capabilities than room-sized computers.

5. Predict what the advancement of A.I. technologies will allow people to do.
a. build robots capable of more complex tasks
b. build larger computers
c. make more realistic special effects in movies

d. nothing will change

6. In this passage the word chips means
a. a small piece of wood

b. a small thin piece of food
c. a microchip
d. a token used as money in a casino

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