全民英檢◆中級◆閱讀(GEPT Reading)題庫下載題庫

Questions 16-20

 

       One could spend days telling the origin story of computers. ___(16)___ the 16th century when the word "compute" first appeared, meaning calculation. Those who performed calculations ___(17)___ to as computers at the time. It wasn't ___(18)___ the late 19th century that the machines began to be called computers.

       Charles Babbage, ___(19)___ the father of computers, started developing what we now recognize as the modern computer. More than a century later, computers for general use became a reality. Our lives have become so much easier thanks to the efforts of these ___(20)___.

 

source: https://www.toppr.com/guides/computer-aptitude-and-knowledge/basics-of-computers/history-ofcomputers/