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Everybody Should Say Thank You to Ray TomGnson Why should you thank Ray Tomlinson？You might have never heard of his name before，but do you know that the e-mail you use every day was his"child"？
Ray Tomlinson is known as"the father of e-mail"．He was born in New York in 1941．He attended college at the Renaselaer Polytechnic Institute，where he took part in a program with IBM，and in 1963he received a bachelor（學(xué)士） of Science in electrical engineering．
In 1971，Ray created the first e一mail system，which allowed people to send messages electronically from the same computer．But he thought that there might also be a way to send messages from different computers，which led to the birth of the e-mail we know now．He chose the@sign to separate local from global emails in the mailing address．"I used the‘@'sign to show that the user was‘a(chǎn)t'some other hosts rather than being local，"said Ray in an interview．
person to person network email was born and user@host became the standard for email addresses，
as it remains today．
Ray Tomlinson died at the age of 74．Thanks Ray Tomlinson for inventing the email and putting the@sign on the map．Though he may not be．famous as Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates，Ray Tomlinson surely has his place among the geniuses（天才）that gave us the convenience that we call"computer technology"．
45．Who is known as"the father of e-mail"？B
A．Bill Gates．
B．Ray Tomlinson．
C．Steve Jobs．
D．Mark Zuckerberg．
46．When did Ray create the first e一mail system？C
A．In 1941．
B．In 1963．
C．In 1971．
D．In 2015．
47．He used the@sign to show thatA．
A．the user was"at"some other hosts rather than being local
B．people could send messages from the same computer
C．it played a key role in computer technology
D．he took part in a program with IBM
48．Why should everybody say thank you to Ray Tomlinson？D
A．Because he received a bachelor of Science
B．Because he was as famous as Mark Zuckerberg．
C．Because he surely has his place among the geniuses．
D．Because he invented email and put the@sign on the map．
