Comprehension check

Read the text about Claude Shannon and mark the following statements as True or False.
1)Claude Shannon showed a keen interest for sciences from an early childhood.
2)In the 1930’s Massachusetts Institute of Technology was a well-known institution dealing with information science.
3)The Differential Analyzer was the first electronic computer.
4)MIT awarded Shannon with Master’s degree in information science.
5)Shannon’s concept of entropy was applied to probability theory.
6)Shannon was the first who introduced the word “bit” to describe the “yes-no” decision.
7)Shannon stopped his scientific activity in the early 1950’s.
8)Nowadays we have an opportunity to use the Internet due to Shannon’s theory of information.
9)Claude Shannon is one of the most outstanding scientists of the 20th century.
    
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Find the dates in the text (years only) and match them to the events:
a)wrote a paper "A symbolic Analysis of relay and Switching Circuits"
b)developed a chess playing computer
c)joined the Bell Telephone laboratories
d)was born
e)wrote a paper "A mathematical theory of communication"
f)died
g)graduated from MIT
h)organized a conference at Dartmouth College on artificial intelligence
    
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Complete the sentences with the words from the text. Write one word in each box.
a)
When a boy, Shannon took a keen interest in and .
b)
It was his who gave him first scientific .
c)
Shannon's final qualification included both and degrees in .
d)
While working at the Bell's Labs he started to develop the theory of the .
e)
His most influential work was entitled "A of ".
f)
Together with Alan Turing he tried to develop the field of .
h)
Shannon's information theories saw application in a wide range of areas, including phonetics, , and psychology.
    
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