Name: ..

Date:

1) Read and answer the following questions about the text.

Facebook (formerly Thefacebook) was an online social
networking service in California. Its website was launched on
February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg with his college
roommates and fellow Harvard University students
Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and
Chris Hughes. The founders had
initially limited the website's membership to Harvard
students, but later expanded it to colleges in the Boston area. It gradually added support for students at
various other universities and later to high-school students. Since 2006, anyone who is at least 13 years
old is allowed to become a registered user of the website, though the age requirement may be higher
depending on applicable local laws.
1. Where did Facebook first appear?

2. How many founders worked in the project?

3. When did Facebook start registering users all over the world?
...
2) Complete with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.

Zuckerberg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (WRITE) a program called Facemash on October 28,

2003 while attending Harvard University. According to The Harvard Crimson, the site _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ (BE) comparable to Hot or Not. It placed two next to each other at a time and _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
(ASK) users to choose the 'hotter' person" Facemash attracted 450 visitors and 22,000 photo-views in its
first four hours online.
The site was quickly forwarded to several campus, but was shut down a few days later by the Harvard
administration. Zuckerberg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (FACE) expulsion. Zuckerberg expanded on this initial
project that semester by creating a social study tool ahead of an art history final. He uploaded 500
Augustan images to a website, and each image was featured with a corresponding comments section. He
shared the site with his classmates and people started sharing notes. On February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg
launched "Thefacebook", originally located at thefacebook.com.
Membership was initially restricted to students of Harvard College; within the first month, more than half
the undergraduates at Harvard_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (BE) registered on the service. In March 2004,
Facebook expanded to the universities of Columbia, Stanford, and Yale, and gradually most universities in
Canada and the United States.
3) Match the underlined words with the correct definitions.
A- __________________ : a place on the Internet where you can find
information about something.
B- __________________ : to move information or programs from a computer to a computer network.
C- __________________ : to make a computer program start.
D- __________________ : an opinion about someone or something
E- __________________ : an online community of people who use a website or other technologies to
communicate with each other and share information.