● The A.M. Turing Award is a prestigious award given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
● The ACM gives the award for “major contributions of lasting importance to computing.”
● Shafi Goldwasser won the award in 2012 for transformative work that laid the foundations for digital cryptography.
Which choice most effectively uses information from the given sentences to emphasize when Shafi Goldwasser won the A.M. Turing Award?
Explanation
Answer: A) It was in 2012 that Shafi Goldwasser won the A.M. Turing Award.
Goal: Emphasize when Shafi Goldwasser won the A.M. Turing Award.
Why? Emphasizing "when" requires highlighting the time. A uses "It was in 2012 that..." construction to spotlight the year prominently.
Traps:
- B) About work → not emphasizing when
- C) No year mentioned
- D) About the award → not when