- •Vocabulary 253
- •Information for study
- •If it keeps up, man atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
- •1. Read and translate the text.
- •2. Check up your understanding.
- •3. Retell the text briefly using the following expressions:
- •4. What's missing? You can help yourself referring to the text.
- •5. Rearrange the words and get the right sentences.
- •6. Put the letters in order to make words, then use the words to complete the sentences.
- •7. There are two words given in each item. You must explain
- •8. Give the opposites of the following words.
- •9. Give the synonyms of the following words:
- •10. What verbs frequently precede these words?
- •11. Supply the articles where necessary:
- •12. Translate into English:
- •13. Are you up to giving a right explanation?
- •Who can express the most precise meaning of the word? Are you getting on well with your English? Try to do your best!
- •14. Fairly and rather
- •1. Match the words given in the left column with their definitions in the right column, e.G. 1-21:
- •2. Invent sentences using the expressions from the list below:
- •3. Reading comprehension
- •Computer terms in use
- •If it’s beyond your reach, give Russian explanations at least.
- •Information for study
- •We live in a time when automation is ushering in a second industrial revolution.
- •1. Read and translate the text.
- •2. Are you an experienced person?
- •3. Retell the text briefly using the following words and expressions:
- •4. What’s missing? You can help yourself referring to the text.
- •5. Rearrange the words and get the right sentences.
- •6. Put the letters in order to make words, then use the words to complete the sentences.
- •11. Supply the articles where necessary:
- •12. Translate into English.
- •13. Are you up to giving a right explanation?
- •3. Vocabulary training
- •Identification of words.
- •4. Computer terms in use
- •1. Read and try to understand the given above text.
- •2. No doubt, a person who is willing to establish a new business must have certain skills, such as:
- •Phrasal verbs
- •If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.
- •If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway.
- •If everything seems to go well, you have obviously overlooked something.
- •Information for study
- •1. Read and translate the text.
- •2. Check up your understanding. Give full answers:
- •3. Retell the text briefly using the following expressions and terms:
- •4. What’s missing? If you are in doubt refer to the text.
- •5. Rearrange the words and get the right sentences:
- •6. Put the letters in order to make words, then use the words to complete the sentences:
- •12. Translate into English:
- •13. Are you up to giving a right explanation?
- •If you’re in doubt we can help you.
- •He did his best and won the prize.
- •3. Vocabulary training
- •1. Identification of words
- •2. Useful expressions
- •Invent sentences using the expressions from the left column:
- •3. Reading comprehension
- •4. Computer terms in use
- •If it is beyond your grasp give at least Russian explanation:
- •Information for study
- •3. Vocabulary training
- •Fig. 1 Basic Computer Architecture
- •Moor’s law
- •1. Information for study
- •3. Vocabulary training
- •Inflation
- •Infidelity
- •1. Information for study
- •If builders built buildings the way the programmers wrote programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
- •1. Read and translate the text.
- •2. Check up your understanding. Give full answers:
- •3. Retell the text briefly using the following terms and expressions:
- •4. What is missing? If you are in doubt refer to the text. Take it into account that in each item the first letter of the missing word is used:
- •5. Rearrange the words and get the right sentences:
- •6. Supply the preposition if one is missing. If necessary refer to the text:
- •12. Translate into English.
- •13. Are you up to giving a right explanation?
- •3. Vocabulary training
- •Identification of words
- •2. Useful expressions
- •3. Phrasal verbs
- •If necessary use the dictionary at the end of this book.
- •4. Reading comprehension
- •5. Computer terms in use
- •Read and try to understand the given above text.
- •What’s your opinion concerning software piracy? Will it exist always?
- •It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night.
- •1. Information for study
- •Information.
- •1. Read and translate the text.
- •2. Check up your understanding. Give full answers.
- •3. Retell the text briefly using the fallowing expressions and terms:
- •4. What’s missing? If you are in doubt refer to the text. Take it into account that in each item the first letter of the missed word is used.
- •5. Rearrange the words and get the right sentences.
- •6. Supply the preposition if one is missing.
- •12. Are you up to giving a right explanation?
- •3. Vocabulary training
- •Identification of words
- •Useful expressions
- •Invent sentences using the following expressions and words:
- •Reading comprehension
- •4. Each sentence contains a word that is wrong.
- •5. Fill the gaps with the appropriate word. Then refer to the text.
- •Give the explanation to the following acronyms and abbreviations (p. 223 will help you):
- •Multimedia
- •Programming languages and functions
- •Real-Time Communication
- •I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I’m incapable of taking it.
- •Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
- •It is a human zoo.
- •I’ve had three wives, six children, six grandchildren, and I still don’t understand women.
- •Vittorio Gassman
- •I prefer the company of women. I’m buzzed by the female mystique.
- •If Restaurants Function Like Microsoft
- •I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.
- •Fairly, rather
- •Vocabulary training
- •1. Match the words with their definitions:
- •3. Reading comprehension
- •Vocabulary training
- •1. Identification of words
- •3. Reading comprehension
- •4. Computer terms in use
- •Do and make
- •3. Vocabulary training
- •1. Identification of words
- •2. Reading comprehension
- •4. Computer terms in use
- •Vocabulary training
- •Verb study practice
- •Vocabulary training
- •Vocabulary training
- •Vocabulary training
- •Webster’s Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language.
- •Vocabulary
- •I. Funk, n. Lewis
- •Webster’s Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary Of the English Language
12. Translate into English.
С моим компьютером что то произошло; такое впечатление, что он сломался.
Трудно представить современного специалиста без компьютера.
Память является очень важным элементом компьютера, но не менее важен процессор.
Компьютер без программного обеспечения является бесполезным металлом.
Для периферийных устройств необходимы соответствующие драйверы.
Сканеры необходимы в тех случаях, когда требуется копировать тексты или изображения.
Для длительного хранения информации ее переписывают на дискеты или жесткие диски.
Драйверы обеспечивают успешную связь компьютера с периферийными устройствами.
Для безопасности желательно (полезно) проинсталлировать хорошую антивирусную программу.
Вирус может погубить не только полезную информацию, но также и программы.
13. Are you up to giving a right explanation?
Pick out a statement from this book. There are a lot of them. By the way, you may put your own idea in an oral frame as well. It’s not prohibited. Stir up your imagination.
14. NO and NOT
In the text above you’ve read the following sentence:
No computer can function without some form of software.
Let’s compare it with another one:
Not many computers can be found in small towns and villages.
Both sentences are all right, but can you explain why in the first statement is used «no» and in the second «not». Do you feel that it is correct or do you understand that it is correct? Check yourself. Fill the gaps choosing between no and not.
I have …. friends in this town.
I have …. time to go to the party. I must hit the books.
Are you going to study English? …. right away.
I have …. memory for names.
I do …. have memory for names.
It is …. a Pentium.
It is …. Pentium 4; it’s a Pentium 3.
I used to think that there was …. difference between NO and NOT.
I have …. answer to this question.
I have …. the slightest idea of that.
I’m …. the person you’re looking for.
I have …. idea.
It’s of …. interest to me.
You have …. chance to work with this company.
You have …. the slightest chance to work with this company.
There’s …. a chance for you to work with this company.
There’s …. pen on the table.
May I borrow your pen, please? Sorry, I have …. pen. It is …. a pen. It’s a pencil.
There are …. people in the street at night.
There’s …. a person in the street at night.
I do …. need your advice. I’ll solve the problem on my own.
I said I need …. advice.
…. news is good news.
There is …. possibility that we’ll get there in two hours.
It is …. possible that we’ll get there in two hours.
3. Vocabulary training
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling
Identification of words.
Match the words from the list below with their definitions.
You may help yourself looking up the dictionary at the end of this book.
Tightly |
Execute |
Inevitable |
Etch |
Vary |
Colloquial |
Simultaneous |
Forecast |
Available |
Correspond |
Control |
Flexible |
Pit |
Ensure |
Task |
Store |
Drug |
Flow |
Perform |
Attach |
Affinity |
Current |
Extreme |
Light |
Stepbrother |
……….. close likeness or agreement
……….. join to
……….. ready to be used
……….. used in everyday speech but not in formal writing or speaking
……….. to be similar (to), match
……….. belonging to the present time
……….. a substance used in medicine to treat illness
……….. make sure
……….. eat out by acid, light etc
……….. carry out
……….. far from the ordinary or usual, very great
……….. fault, imperfection
……….. easily bent
……….. to predict
……….. not able to be avoided
……….. not heavy
……….. to do, to act
……….. a hole
……….. to regulate
……….. happening at the same time
……….. child of an earlier marriage of one’s father or mother
……….. put aside for future
……….. a set piece of work to be done
……….. closely
……….. make, be, or become different
2. Useful expressions
Words are loaded pistols.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Make up sentences using the italicized expressions from the list below:
to be distributed on a medium to be written on a certain substance
to be in current use to be used at present time
to be widely spread to become widely known, distributed
to carry out to perform
needles to say it’s not necessary to say
present day now
to run information to control information
to switch off to turn off
to switch on to turn on
3. Reading comprehension
Read the text, try to understand the topic and put the items in the right order. Take it into account that the first one is in the right position.
A virus is a program that will seek to duplicate itself in memory and on discs, but in a subtle way that will not immediately be noticed.
Note also that different platforms have different general levels of resistance, Unix machines are almost immune, Win ’95/’98/Me is quite vulnerable, and most others lie somewhere in between.
Therefore a computer on the same network as an infected computer or that uses an infected disc (floppy or CD) or that downloads and runs an infected program can itself become infected.
For example, on a network consisting of a WinTel box, a Mac, and a Linux box, if one machine acquires a virus the other two will probably still be safe.
A virus can only spread to computers of the same platform.