3. Задания к контрольной работе № 2.

3.1. Вариант 1/Variant 1.

1. Разделите приведенные ниже слова на три группы, определяя по префиксам и суффиксам часть речи – существительное, прилагательное или наречие. Переведите слова. Используйте таблицы словообразования.

Abbreviation, digital, user, quickly, local, communication, development, finally, specific, usually, sender, regular, illegal, important, deceptive, violator.

2. Прочитайте и переведите весь текст устно.

E-Mail

1. E-Mail is an abbreviation of the term electronic mail, method of transmitting data, text files, digital photos, or audio and video files from one computer to another over an intranet or the Internet. E-mail enables computer users to send messages and data quickly through a local area network or beyond through the Internet. E-mail came into widespread use in the 1990s and has become a major development in business and personal communications.

2. E-mail users create and send messages from individual computers using commercial e-mail programs or mail-user agents. Most of these programs have a text editor for composing messages. The user sends a message to one or more recipients by specifying destination addresses. When a user sends an e-mail message to several recipients at once, it is sometimes called broadcasting.

3. The address of an e-mail message contains the user’s name, followed by the symbol @, the domain name, the institution’s or organization’s name, and finally the country name. A typical e-mail address might be sally@abc.com. In this example sally is the user’s name; abc is the domain name—the specific company, organization, or institution that the e-mail message is sent to or from; and the suffix com indicates the type of organization that abc belongs to - com for commercial, org for organization, edu for educational, mil for military, and gov for governmental. An e-mail message that is sent from one country to another has a supplementary suffix that indicates the country of origin or destination. Examples include uk for the United Kingdom, fr for France.

4. E-mail messages usually have the following format:

To: (Name and e-mail address of recipient)

From: (Name and e-mail address of sender)

Subject: (Identification of main point of message)

Here is an example of an e-mail address: smith@cup.ac.uk

Note that the symbol @ in e-mail address is read at and that the full stops are read as dot. Thus the example address would be read as Smith at С - U - P dot A - С dot U - K.

5. E-mail data travels from the sender’s computer to a network tool called a message transfer agent (MTA) that, depending on the address, either delivers the message within that network of computers or sends it to another MTA for distribution over the Internet. The data file is eventually delivered to the private mailbox of the recipient, who retrieves and reads it using an e-mail program or MUA. The recipient may delete the message, store it, reply to it, or forward it to others.

6. E-mail has had a great impact on the amount of information sent worldwide. It has become an important method of transmitting information previously relayed via regular mail, telephone, courier, fax, television, or radio.

7. E-mail, however, has also been abused by certain businesses that send unsolicited commercial e-mail messages known as spam. To address this problem, the U.S. Congress in 2003 passed legislation designed to curb spam. The law makes it illegal to send e-mail messages that use deceptive subject lines and false return addresses, providing fines as high as $6 million and possible prison terms for violators. Senders of pornographic or adult-related content must clearly identify such content in the subject line. The law requires all commercial e-mail messages, solicited or unsolicited, to include a valid postal address and an opt-out mechanism within the body of the text so that recipients can prevent future e-mail solicitations.

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Notes:

text editor – текстовый редактор;

recipient – получатель;

destination - место назначения;

message transfer agent (MTA) – служба передачи сообщений;

retrieve – восстановить;

unsolicited – незапрашиваемый;

opt-out mechanism - механизм выхода.