Reading Comprehension: Brief History of Mobile Apps

Reading Comprehension

Multiple Choice

Read the text, and answer.

1.Mobile applications are an essential part of our lives. We use them to chat with friends, pay taxes, order pizza, take photos of cats, and lots of other stuff.

What are some uses of mobile applications based on the text.

• To take photos.

• To pay taxes.
  
  

• To chat with friends.

• All of them

Multiple Choice

The very first mobile phone was equipped with features like word clock, calculator, calendar, and contact book. By the way, do you remember the legendary snake game?

The first mobile phone didn't have...

• word clock

• calculator

• touch screen

• calendar

Multiple Choice

The announcement of the first smartphone designed and marketed by the company co-founded by Steve Jobs was a giant leap forward in the evolution of mobile apps. The digital keyboard revolutionized the way people used mobile apps.

Steve Jobs is...

• The owner of a small company.

• It is a good man.

• A common man.

• The owner of a big company related to the mobile applications.

Multiple Choice

July 2008 is when everything changed: the digital store of this revolutionary brand went online. In one day, a bunch of apps where released for you to download on the company’s smartphone. To be more exact, they released about 552 apps, with 135 of them being free to download. In just one week, its users downloaded about 10,000,000 (ten million) apps!

The number 10 million apps in the text, refers to...

• smartphones.

• keyboards.

• free apps.

• laptops.

Multiple Choice

Mobile applications are in a process of constant evolution, which is unlikely to stop in the near future. What’s even more interesting is that mobile applications have started to affect the design and format of smartphones, as well as our lifestyle. The question is: Do you go for a pizza or do you order a pizza through an app?

What of the following information is not correct?

• Mobile applications are static. They don't change.

• mobile applications affects designs of smartphones.

• Mobile applications are always changing.

Open Ended

Do you buy things online? Which apps do you use?