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Based on the text, judge the items below. Ada Lovelace met Charles Babbage through Mary Somerville.
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Based on the text, judge the items below. “them” (line 22) refers to “applications” (line 21).
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The infinitive form of “taught" (line 2) is think.
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Based on the text, judge the items below. Apart from its inventor, nobody ever used Babbage’s Analytical Engine.
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Based on the text, judge the items below. Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage realized that, besides calculation, the Analytical Engine could be used for other purposes.
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Mary Somerville was Ada Lovelace's teacher
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Based on the text, judge the items below. Which can substitute “who”, in “who first had the idea” (line 6).
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The word Nevertheless is a correct alternative for “However" (line 10).
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Based on the text, judge the items below. Lack of money was the main reason why the building of the Analytical Engine was not carried out.
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Nobody thought of a programmable computer before Charles Babbage.