- •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
5. Rearrange the words and get the right sentences.
with / many / a host / of/ the help / tame / of computers / incurables / can / we / of many /.
bases / allow / data / to / electronic / large / companies / ticket / check / availability /.
need / line / stand / don't / in / you /.
a few / validates / the card / seconds / in/ a computer /.
your car / a collection / in / chips / of 7 controls / timing / plug / spark /.
complex / the technology / growing / more / keeps /.
then / now / positive / to think / every / worthwhile / of / is / it / the computers / and /.
for / always / as / I / a boy / a stopwatch / had / wanted / never / the money / one / but /.
into / a / a / a / wrong / spell-checker / right / program / word / corrects / one /.
into / turn / a button / squeeze / and / will / it/ a stopwatch /.
6. Put the letters in order to make words, then use the words to complete the sentences.
wyunra, llbaaaviiity, ppmu, einl, kcba, ssccea, inccayi, mrlaa, eellrt, smnooui
Large electronic data bases allow companies to check ticket ..... .
That means you sit fuming on a ..... waiting for takeoff clearance.
You slip your card into a ..... and a computer inside it validates the card in a few seconds.
You don't need to stay in ..... .
We can never go ..... .
Today it's impossible to get ..... about computers.
You have to wait in line, deal with a ..... and sit down.
The term «banking hours» used to be ..... .
Now we expect 24-hours ..... to our money at machines.
Your watch will wake you with an ..... .
7. There are two words given in each item. You must explain
how is «a» like «b» and how «a» differs from «b».
(a) ledger, (b) book;
(a) work, (b) job;
(a) money, (b) cash;
(a) watch, (b) clock;
(a) runway, (b) way.
8. Give the opposites of the following words.
1. fail; 2. late; 3. right; 4. complex; 5. positive; 6. different;t 7. unscientifically; 8. sit down; 9. lucky; 10. remember; 11. spend; 12. lose; 13. buy; 14. take; 15. believe; 16. unlock; 17. allow; 18. stand.
9. Give the synonyms of the following words:
1. right; 2. wrong; 3. lucky; 4. to change; 5. line; 6. trip; 7. price; 8. to spend; 9. common; 10. to tell; 11. to happen; 12. to buy; 13 project; 14. to go back.
10. What verbs frequently precede these words?
1. a computer; 2. work; 3. a program; 4. a question; 5. an answer; 6. a company; 7. money; 8. button; 9. news; 11. a number; 12. line.
11. Supply the articles where necessary:
..... huge project proposes to unlock ..... genetic code.
..... genome program makes possible to tame ..... host of ..... incurables.
You sit fuming on ..... runway waiting for .... takeoff clearance.
Due to ..... computers ..... reservation agent knows whether there's space on ..... flight from New York to San Francisco.
At ..... service station you slip ..... card into ..... pump and ..... networked computer validates ..... card in a few seconds; you pump ..... gas and hit ..... road.
With ..... computers help ..... controllers can place many planes close in ..... sky.
Yesterday ..... news came of ..... network that failed and paralyzed .... company.
Have you ever seen ..... spell-checker program that «corrects» ..... right word into ..... wrong one?
«I have ..... computer and like to use it», said ..... friend of mine, ..... top-notch operator, «but sometimes I feel at..... machines mercy».
If you use ..... computer, you have to study since ..... technology keeps growing more complex.
In ..... country where ..... banking still runs on ..... paper you have to wait in ..... line, deal with ..... teller, then take ..... number and sit down, and if you are lucky …. clerk takes 30 minutes to see whether you have …. money.
How do you understand .… term «banking hours»?
Alex is going to buy …. new computer; .… one he saw yesterday at …. reasonable price stirred his imagination.
This watch will wake you with …. alarm.
…. price of missing that trip to .… bank is …. cashless weekends and …. embarrassment of …. mooching from friends.
Just tell …. operator …. phone number and hope for … best.