- •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
I’ve had three wives, six children, six grandchildren, and I still don’t understand women.
John Wayne
Men don’t understand anything about women and women understand nothing about men. And it’s better that way.
Vittorio Gassman
I prefer the company of women. I’m buzzed by the female mystique.
Cuddling
Cuddling in the front seat of the car, Tom asked his date, «You don’t shrink from kissing, do you?» Judy replied, «If I did, I’d be awfully small by now».
Confession
«Becky», said the bedridden man. «I can’t die without telling you how rotten I have been. I stole one million bucks from the company, made an additional million by selling secrets to our competitors, and what’s more I fired the accountant since I knew he was your lover».
«Don’t worry about that», sighed Becky, «I’m the one who poisoned you».
Risk
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury
They who lose today may win tomorrow.
Miguel De Cervantes
And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong
Doubt
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure* and the intelligent full of doubt.
B. Russel
*cocksure – very self-confident
Minidictionary
State-of-the-art – Any computer you can’t afford.
Obsolete – Any computer you own.
Floppy – The state of your wallet after purchasing your computer.
Microseconds – The time it takes for your state-of the art computer to become obsolete.
Keyboard – The standard way to generate computer errors. An advanced input device to make computer errors easier to generate.
A blonde went to her mail box many times. Her neighbor noticed it. «Are you waiting for a special delivery?» asked he. «No», she replied «my computer keeps telling I have a mail».
Hard work
The businessman came home absolutely exhausted. «My dear», asked his wife, «you must have had a hard day». «It was terrible», answered her husband, «our computer broke down and we had to do our own thinking».
If Restaurants Function Like Microsoft
Characters: Client, Waiter Bill
Client: Waiter!
Waiter: Hi, my name is Bill, and I’ll be your Support Waiter. What’s the problem?
Client: There is a fly in my soup!
Waiter: Be so kind as to try again. Maybe the fly won’t be there this time.
Client: No, it’s still there.
Waiter: Maybe it’s the way you’re using the soup. Try eating it with a fork instead.
Client: I did but fly is still there.
Waiter: Maybe the soup is incompatible with the bowl? What kind of bowl are you using?
Client: A soup bowl!
Waiter: That should work. Maybe it’s a configuration problem; how was the bowl set up?
Client: You brought it to me on a saucer; what has that to do with the fly in my soup?!
Waiter: Can you remember everything you did before you noticed the fly in your soup?
Client: I set down and ordered the Soup of the Day!
Waiter: Have you considered upgrading to the latest Soup of the Day?
Client: Yes, I changed my chair and spoon! Be so kind as to bring me my soup.
Waiter (leaves and returns with another bowl of soup):
Here you are, Sir.
Client: Thanks, (looking into the bowl) … waiter! There is a gnat in my soup!
Millionaires
1
Before Christmas a millionaire with his wife walked into an art gallery. They bought twelve Dalis, four Van Goghs, and seven Turners. «Well», said the millionaire after they left the gallery, «that takes care of the Christmas cards. Now let’s do the serious shopping».
2
Mr. Smith was showing off his estate to his date. «Here I have three swimming pools. The first one is filled with cold water for my friends who like to swim in cold water. The other one is filled with warm water for those of my friends who like to swim in warm water». The lady was extremely expressed, but the third pool was empty and it stirred up the curiosity of the young woman. «Darling», she said, «but why this one is empty»? «Because», answered Mr. Smith, «not all of my friends like to swim».
Parents
1
Father: Jack, you are a pig! Do you know what a pig is?!
Jack: Yes, Dad. It’s a son of a hog.
2
Father to his son: How dare you disobey your mother?! Do you think you are better than I am?!
3
Sam: Dad I’m late for football match. Please, do my homework.
Dad: It wouldn’t be right, Sammy.
Sam: That’s OK! At least you could try.
Restaurant
«Waiter!» shouted the angry client. «This meal isn’t fit for a pig!»
«I’m sorry», replied the waiter, «I’ll change it and bring you one that is».
Economists
Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, «On the one hand … on the other».
H. Truman
Life
Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.
F. Lebowitz
Literature
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
J. Cocteau
Men and women