Information technology is the application of computers and the internet to store, retrieve, transmit and manipulate information, often in business contexts. Originally computing was done through mainframe computers, which evolved into minicomputers and later personal computers. Now mobile phones are replacing personal computers as the dominant computing platform. IT has transformed societies by shaping them and adapting to people's needs. The development of technology has been an important part of modern society.

1. Miss Nicole Ayleen Ceballos
2° Medio
Inglés
READING COMPREHENSION TEST
UNIT 2: Tecnología e innovaciones tecnológicas
NAME:
DATE:
SCORE:
OOBJETIVE: Check the reading comprehension and the skimming and scanning
skills developed to answer the questions correctly.
ITEM I: Multiple choice
Read the following carefully text and answer the questions from number 1 to 4.
(8pts)
Information Technology (IT) is the application of computers and internet to store,
retrieve, transmit, and manipulate information, often in the context of a business
or other enterprise. IT is considered a subset of information and communications
technology (ICT) and has evolved according to the needs.
Thanks to the continuous development of computers, the original computing
systems became minicomputers and later personal computers took the lead.
Nowadays, mobile phones are dethroning the personal computer and computing
is evolving faster to become disembodied more like a cloud, becoming accessible
more easily whenever needed. Information technology has transformed people
and companies and has allowed digital technology to influence society and
economy alike. It has, in this sense, shaped societies and adapted itself to
people's needs.
1. ¿What does “IT” stand for?
a) Influence Technology b) International Technology c) Information Technology
2. If the word “dethroning” can be understood as “replace” or “substitute”
in context. What does the sentence “…mobile phones are dethroning the
personal computer…” wants to say?
a) Mobile phones will replace personal computers b) Personal Computers will
substitute mobile phones c) Personal Computers will be eliminated.
3. The sentence “It has, in this sense, shaped societies and adapted itself to
people's needs” wants to say?

2. a) Technology is adapted to society b) People don’t need technology c)
Society is shaped by unadapted people
4. What is the conclusion of the whole text?
a) Technology is forming bad people b) Development of technology is part of
our society c) Information Technology will replace people.
ITEM II: Match the words
Match the numbers with the following statement about technology. (10 pts)
1) Internet
2) Website
3) Computer
4) E- Mail
5) Video
1__ a program, movie, or the recorded movie on videotape.
2__ a large computer network linking smaller computer networks worldwide.
3__ a system of sending messages from one computer to another or others.
4__ a connected group of pages on the World Wide Web, usually maintained by
one person or organization
5__ an electronic device designed for performing operations on data at high speed
ITEM III: Reading Comprehension (12 pts)
Read the following text carefully and answer the questions from 1 to 4.
If you want a brief history of Information Technology, here is one. Humans were the first
"computers". Then, machines were invented to carry out the computational
responsibilities. Now these machines have given way to new form of information
technology.
Humans have been storing, retrieving, manipulating, and communicating information
since the Sumerians in Mesopotamia developed writing in about 3000 BC, but the term
information technology in its modern sense first appeared in a 1958 article published in
the Harvard Business Review; authors Harold J. Leavitt and Thomas L. Whisler
commented that "the new technology does not yet have a single established name. We
shall call it information technology (IT)." Their definition consists of three categories:
techniques for processing, the application of statistical and mathematical methods to
decision-making, and the simulation of higher-order thinking through computer
programs.
1) What is the brief history of Information Technology according to the text?
2) When did it appear the term “Information Technology” and where?

3. 3) What are the three categories related to “IT”?
4) According to your understanding, what is the main idea of the text?