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1) True or false?

  1. A person is innocent until proven guilty.

  2. Computer-related crime has diminished.

  3. A thief can transfer funds from other people’s accounts.

  4. Dishonest employees can’t ship the company’s products to addresses of their choosing.

  5. It is impossible to counterfeit credit cards.

  6. Phone freaks can be found out.

  7. Personal information should not be stored in computer files.

  8. A real bank checks very carefully before handling out any money.

  9. Unauthorized persons have proved to be inefficient laymen.

  10. Hardware is less expensive than software.

  11. Computer criminals will never be caught.

  12. Companies don’t punish some criminals because they don’t want bad publicity.

2) Give synonyms to:

to come to light; confidential; attempt; crooked; to deliver; to perpetrate crime; freaks; to avoid; to obtain; to reveal; merchandise; transaction; severance pay; publicity; executive.

3) Give antonyms to:

fraudulent; common; to ship; like; to go to jail; to be adept at; to reveal; a precocious student; former; by accident; to complain of.

4) Construct other sentences in these patterns (transitional expressions):

  1. After all, we know only about unsuccessful crimes.

  2. All but the smallest banks keep their accounts in computer files.

  3. Yet, in the past, organized crime used stolen credit cards to finance its operations.

  4. Also, confidential information can be stolen.

  5. For example, three phone freakers who avoid paying distance telephone charges.

  6. Of course, most systems use passwords to restrict access to authorized users.

  7. Unlike other embezzlers, computer criminals demand that they be given good recommendations.

XI. Read the text. The Internet and Information Revolution

In 1969, the US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency needed a system for computers “to talk” to each other via the telephone. They created a network of computers called DARPANET. In 1984, the US National Science Foundation started the NSNET network, a system of five supercomputer centres.

More and more people and agencies wanted to join the network. NSNET became known as the Inter-Net-Network. People started calling it the Internet.

Today, there are millions of computers all over the world which are connected to the Internet.

The World Wide Web is the most popular area of the Internet. The Web is a huge collection of documents, from all over the world. It contains a mixture of texts, images and sounds.

The Internet is a source of information that is accessible through a computer. It consists of millions of pages of data about every possible subject. Twenty-five million people surf the Internet every day. The Internet is already the biggest source of information of the planet. It will soon be the main source of material for students and teachers of many different subjects.

To access the Internet, you need a service provider, a company which can bring the Internet to your computer screen. Then you can access the information via your telephone line.

If your have the website address of a company or service that you want, you simply type it and you arrive automatically at the page you want. If you haven’t got a particular website address, there are several directories or search engines which can help you, such as Alta Vista, Yahoo! or Infoseek. There are then two ways to find information-directories and key-word searches.