- •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
6. Supply the preposition if one is missing.
A device that allows computers to communicate …. ordinary phones lines is called modem.
External modem must be plugged …. a computer.
ARPANET was created …. research …. networking.
Their work was centered around the problem – how to keep military sites …. communication …. the country …. the event of a nuclear war.
…. The beginning research was their main goal.
Many of small businesses were connected …. The Internet.
The File Transfer Protocol provides …. the copying of files …. one computer …. another.
The sub-domain «edu» tells that the computer is located …. educational institution.
WWW stands …. world wide web.
People are making information available …. Their homes.
7. There are two words in each item. You must explain how is «a» like «b» and how does «a» differ from «b».
(a) LAN, (b) WAN
(a) internal modem, (b) external modem
(a) server, (b) desktop system
(a) the Internet, (b) WWW
(a) computer name, (b) domain name
(a) domain name, (b) sub-domain name
(a) address, (b) mail address
(a) hypertext, (b) hypermedia
(a) browser, (b) server
(a) HTTP, (b) HTML.
8. Give the opposites of the following words.
1. external; 2. beginning; 3. connection; 4. available; 5. indispensable; 6. find; 7. combine; 8. send; 9. leave; 10. independently; 11. remote.
9. Give the synonyms of the following words.
1. research; 2. render; 3. project; 4. type; 5. purpose; 6. inform; 7. many; 8. share; 9. own; 10. concentrate.
10. What verbs precede these words?
1. modem; 2. the Internet; 3. information; 4. address; 5. project; 6. team; 7. country; 8. browser; 9. history; 10. data.
11. Translate into English.
Сначала основной целью интернета являлись исследования.
Корни интернета уходят к 1969 г.
Модем является сокращением слов модулятор и демодулятор.
Через интернет можно получать или посылать письма или просто общаться.
Интернет позволяет быстро находить любую интересующую вас информацию.
Несмотря на то, что на ранней стадии Web имел своей целью развитие науки и образования, позже он приобрел существенное значение для бизнеса.
Для нахождения необходимой информации в интернете следует пользоваться специальной программой, которая называется «браузер».
Сервером называется компьютер, обслуживающий всю сеть.
Web-сервером называется программа, которая по получении запроса отсылает клиенту затребованный документ.
Для соединения с клиентом необходимо знание его адреса.
12. Are you up to giving a right explanation?
Look for a statement or put your own idea in oral frame.
Useful information
Do you know what’s the difference between in time, in good time, and on time? Try to understand:
Teacher: You are late, Tom.
Tom: But I tried to come in time.
Teacher: If you had tried to come in time you would have come at least on time. So, tomorrow you must try coming in good time.
In time means «early enough»; in good time means «with a comfortable margin»; on time means «at the time arranged, not earlier, not later».
As you see try can be followed either by infinitive or by gerund.
Depending on it, this verb has two different meanings:
Try + infinitive means «make an effort, attempt»;
Try + gerund means «make the experiment» (see the above dialogue).
The same situation happens with the verb like, namely:
Like + infinitive often means «think right or wise»;
Like + gerund means «enjoy».
For example:
My friend likes to upgrade his computer at least once a year
means that he thinks it’s right to upgrade computer.
My friend likes upgrading his computer
means that he enjoys to upgrade his computer.
Well, suppose you are an ignorant «freshman» who does not know all the peculiarities given above, and somebody says to you:
I like to go to the dentist sometimes.
No doubt you would imagine that this person is a bit off his head (mad), though this statement means that the person thinks it’s right to go to the dentist.
I don’t like to do smth usually means «I don’t do because I think it’s not right to do». But I don’t like doing smth means «I do although I don’t enjoy it».
Now you see you got really useful information.