Questão de Língua Inglesa

A) You did. B) Did you bought a car C) Have you bought a car D) Did you buy a car E) Will you buy a car - Answer according to the text Who is Jimmy Wales? He is the man who started Wikipedia, the very successful and controversial on-line encyclopaedia. Wales was born in Huntsville, Alabama in 1966, the son of a grocer. He was educated by his mother and grandmother at their small private school. The school was progressive and gave students the freedom to choose their activities: Wales spent a lot of his time studying the World Book Encyclopaedia. Education was very important for Wales’ parents: they believed that a good education was the basis for a good life. He went on to attend the University of Alabama, where he gained a Master’s Degree. He taught at the University while studying for a Ph.D. in Finance: he left before completing the course, however, and he became a very successful Futures and Options trader in Chicago, earning enough money to guarantee his family’s security and comfort for the rest of their lives. Wales then turned his attention to the Internet: he launched a search portal called Bomis in 1996. Journalists have recently accused him of making money selling pornography through Bomis, but he has denied this. 4 Wales is a follower of Ayn Rand’s objectivist philosophy, which says that knowledge and understanding are fundamental. Rand also suggested happiness comes from heroic and noble acts. Perhaps these ideas influenced Wales’ next project: the creation of an on-line encyclopaedia through which everyone can share their knowledge. He founded Nupedia.com in 2000 and the following year created Wikipedia.com. The plan was to use Wikipedia for original contributions that would eventually move to the Nupedia site, but Wikipedia exploded. Nobody predicted its incredible success. In just five years it has grown into one of the worlds largest encyclopaedias with versions in 100 languagues The unusual name Wikipedia is a combination of “encyclopedia” and “wiki”, the software Wikipedia uses. Wikiwiki is the Hawaiian word for fast.. Wales’ mission is to offer the world free knowledge: new projects include Wikibooks to develop free textbooks for schools worldwide, an on-line dictionary called the Wiktionary and a library called Wikisource. Jimmy Wales has a mission: he explains, “We want to share knowledge in a million ways. We have the people to do it. We have the technology to do it. And we will do it.”