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  1. Reading Exercises:

Exercise 1. Read and memorize using a dictionary:

cabling, power supply, circuit boards, proliferation, advent, software, hardware, mainframe, storage, subtraction, to facilitate, appropriate, via, aggregates of data, instruction-decoding unit, to integrate, to specify, entire, by means of, record, set, rapid, primarily, proper sequence

Exercise 2. Answer the questions:

  1. What is the difference between software and hardware?

  2. How many types of software do you know?

  3. Who writes software?

  4. Why must the source code be translated into mashine language?

  5. What is CPU composed of?

  6. How many CPUs may large computers have?

  7. How do users retrieve database information?

  8. Why are databases structured?

Exercise 3. Are these sentences true or false?

  1. Software is computer machinery and equipment.

  2. Hardware is the entire set of programs, procedures, and routines associated with the operation of a computer system.

  3. Hardware includes memory, cabling, power supply, peripheral devices, and circuit boards.

  4. Compiler is a machine language, which the computer can understand and act on.

  5. The control unit selects instructions from the main memory.

  6. Records can be broken down into files.

Exercise 4. Match the left part with the right:

1. Input data are

a) much smaller hardware assemblies and accelerated the proliferation of computers.

2. The advent of microprocessors in the late 1970s led to

b) system software and application software.

3. Two main types of software are

c) transferred via the main memory to the arithmetic-logic unit for processing.

4. A database consists of

d) a file or set of files.

THE SPEAKING MODULE

II. Speaking Exercises:

Exercise 1. Define the terms using the suggested words and expressions as in example:

Information science

Database

CPU

Software

Application software,

discipline, deals with, processes, storing,transferring, information

collection, data, organized, rapid, search, retrieval, computer

principal, component, composed control unit, instruction-decoding unit, arithmetic-logic unit

entire, set, programs, procedures, routines, operation computer system

directs, computer, to execute, commands, solve, practical, problems

EXAMPLE: Information science is a discipline that deals with the processes of storing and transferring information.

Exercise 2. Ask questions to the given answers:

  1. Question: ___________________________________________ ?

Answer: Both hardware and software.

  1. Question: ___________________________________________ ?

Answer : In the late 1970s.

  1. Question: ___________________________________________ ?

Answer: By means of a compiler.

  1. Question: ___________________________________________ ?

Answer: Using keywords and sorting commands.

  1. Question: ___________________________________________ ?

Answer: It coordinates communication between computers linked in a network.

THE WRITING MODULE

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