- •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.
- •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:
- •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?
- •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?
- •Identification of words
- •Useful expressions
- •Invent sentences using the following expressions and words:
- •Reading comprehension
- •3. Vocabulary training
- •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
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:
Communication skills. Organizational skills.
Decision-making skills. Planning skills.
Problem solving skills. Creative skills.
Critical thinking skills. Financial management skills.
Team building skills. Scientific & investigative skills.
Besides that he or she must have administrative and leadership skills and, of course, be educated and experienced in the area of his activity and objectives.
He or she must be able to cope with stress and be prepared to take a risk preferably calculated one.
We give you free hand to add some more important skills that aren’t listed above.
Now the questions are:
Why do you think Bill Gates is a success in his business? Prove your point of view.
Is it possible today to establish a new company either in the field of hardware or software that will be able in the future to compete with, for example, Microsoft, IBM or Intel. If «yes», what kind of a company it should be? If «not» – why «not»?
Do you feel yourself capable to be a head of a large hardware or software company? Give full answer, please.
Why the American Government wanted to divide Microsoft into two or maybe more independent companies?
5. Vocabulary peculiarities
Read, translate, remember.
This small piece of text represents you several examples of everyday speech in which phrasal verbs and idioms are used very often. Pay attention to them. Otherwise your spoken language will be stale and awkward. The attached vocabulary will alleviate your work.
Tom’s trouble
Tom is a freshman. To buy a modern computer is his sweetest dream, but he cannot afford it because of the lack of money. If only he had a computer! Unfortunately, all his efforts to persuade his father to help him over that problem fail.
«This box with its dull useless games will take too much of your time», always grumbles his father. «You had better brush away this idea and hit the books». «Back numbers can never keep up with the times», murmurs Tom, «but I won’t through in the towel. It’s not in my habit to give in. Sooner or later I’ll bring you round to my way of thinking».
Yesterday on the way to the University Tom ran into his old friend, a firs-class hacker, Jack.
Tom: Hi, Jack.
Jack: Hi, man. You look so downcast, Your face is as long as a fiddle. What’s up?
Tom: My Dad is against buying me a new computer. He thinks I’ll be keen on games. Then, as a result, I’ll miss my classes and fail my exams. Yesterday he added that if it happened, everybody would say that he had caused it by letting me have my own way. Sheer nonsense!
Jack: We should do something about it…. Well, maybe you’ll try to butter him up.
Tom: I wish I knew how to do that …. I even don’t know how to go about it. You see, as a matter of fact, I’ve always been a hard working student, never missed my classes, and now I’m getting along quite well in the University as you know. I thought Dad would take it into account, but, on the contrary, in this case he considers a computer as a wasting-time commodity. I think I’m fighting a losing battle.
Jack: Keep your chin up, Tom. Follow me now and you will win! Pull yourself together and tell your Dad that you would study much more better if you had at hand all the necessary internet information.
Tom: You’re great, Jack! Your idea is excellent. It carried me away. I’ll look in on my way home. Bye-bye.
Jack: Drop in whenever you like. I’ll be in at night. Good luck.
Make up sentences using these phrasal verbs and expressions.
Useful vocabulary