- •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
Phrasal verbs
(A special group of words which consists of two or three words: a verb followed by an adverb, a verb followed by a preposition, or a verb followed by an adverb and a preposition)
be against |
be opposed to (often used with gerund) |
be in |
be at home / in this building |
bring round |
persuade someone to accept a previously opposed suggestion (object usually before round) |
brush away |
treat as neither important nor desirable |
butter up |
flatter |
carry away |
transport, enchant |
drop in |
visit casually |
get along (on) |
make progress, be successful |
give in |
cease to resist |
help over |
to help (someone) to deal with (a difficulty) |
keep up (with) |
remain abreast of someone who is advancing |
look in |
pay a short visit |
run into |
meet accidentally |
B. Expressions and idioms
face is as long as a fiddle |
look very depressed |
back number |
old fashioned person |
be keen on |
be eager, enthusiastic |
fight a loosing battle |
try without success to achieve or prevent something |
have at hand |
be nearby |
have one’s own way |
do what somebody wants |
hit the books |
study hard |
keep one’s chin up |
stay cheerful in difficult circumstances |
lack of money |
short of money |
on the contrary |
just the opposite |
pull oneself together |
control oneself |
sheer nonsense |
absolute absurd |
take into account |
consider, remember |
through in the towel |
surrender, give up |
6. Just for fun
When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that three of his fingers are pointing at himself.
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.
Law of the office: Vital papers always move from where you left them to where you can’t find them.
All things are possible except skiing through a revolving door.
Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.
Oscar Wild
1
Clerk: Can I interest you in a nice pocket calculator?
Customer: No thanks, I know exactly how many pockets I have.
2
Customer (annoyed): You said this computer was foolproof, but I can’t figure out how to use it.
Salesgirl (smiling): There you are.
Customer: What do you mean?
Salesgirl: Like I said, it’s proof that you’re a fool.
3
Tom, Bill and Dull were washed ashore on an island. Their only food and drink came from coconuts, and after a week they began to despair.
One morning a lantern was washed ashore and Tom picked it up. More despairing than hopeful, he rubbed it …Out came a genie, who promised to grant each of the men one wish.
His eyes wide with thanksgiving, Tom asked to bring him back home.
The genie snapped his fingers, and Tom was gone.
The same happened with Bill.
Looking around Dull began to weep. «I’m so lonely … I wish the other two guys were back».
The genie snapped his fingers …
4
«Oh, God,» sighed the wife one morning, «I’m convinced my mind is almost completely gone»! «I’m not surprised», answered her husband looking up from the newspaper, «you’ve been giving me a piece of it every day for twenty years».
Optimistic statements or Murphy’s laws:
Murphy’s first law:
Nothing is as easy as it looks.
Murphy’s second law:
Everything takes longer than you think.
Murphy’s third law:
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong and at the worst possible time.
Murphy’s fourth law: