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2.6 Match the words in a to the definitions in b

A

B

  1. application

  1. abacus

  1. invention

  1. technology

  1. computer science

  1. calculation

  1. expert

  1. someone who has a special skill or special knowledge of a subject, gained as a result of training or experience

  2. when you use numbers in order to find out an amount, price, or value

  3. a frame with small balls that can be slid along on thick wires, used for counting and calculating

  4. practical purpose for which a machine, idea etc can be used, or a situation when this is used

  5. new machines, equipment, and ways of doing things that are based on modern knowledge about science and computers

  6. a useful study of computers, their design, and their uses for computation, data processing, and systems control, including design and development of computer hardware and software, and programming.

  7. machine, tool, instrument etc that has been invented

2.7 Use the words from 1.6 to complete the sentences:

  1. Fortran is still used today for programming scientific and mathematical ………….. .

  2. The ……………. of Fortran began a $24 million dollar computer software industry and began the development of other high level programming languages.

  3. Back in the DOS days I was …………… on linking Fortran to Assembly language.

  4. Once all the necessary ……………… have been made the experiment can proceed.

  5. In ……………… one learns how to write programs that can perform certain tasks

  6. Having a solid education and specific specialty certifications is the best way to progress in an ………………… career.

  7. Make an …………….. and write a report about its usefulness in terms of place value and computation

Grammar revision

2.8 Complete the following sentences with the correct form of the words in italics

  1. Invent, inventor, invention

  1. William Seward Burroughs ………….. the first practical adding and listing machine.

  2. Nevertheless, the layout of the computer keyboard still owes its origin to the ..…………of the first typewriter, Christopher Latham Sholes who also invented the QWERTY layout.

  3. We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many ………….. had their birth as toys. (Eric Hoffer )

  1. Improve, improvement

  1. At sixteen Blaise Pascal wrote an essay on conic sections; and in 1641, at the age of eighteen, he constructed the first arithmetical machine, an instrument which, eight years later, he further ………… .

  2. Some other early computer makers found it easy to design ………………. that created a better machine.

  3. Soon the functionality of calculators………………. beyond simple arithmetic operations.

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