Unit 3 order of importance

Objectives:

Here in the unit you will:

1. Continue learning to read effectively

2. Practise in determining the meaning of unfamiliar words from their context

3. Drill the vocabulary for academic purposes

4. Practise in applying the rules of punctuation

5. Learn some useful elements of writing

2. Find out several note-taking basics

Part 1 academic vocabulary

Task 1. Choose the correct dictionary definition for the word in CAPITAL letters. Compare your results with the results other students have got.

1. If you are quite active physically then you can maintain a sense of comfort if you turn down your room thermostat a few DEGREEs in the evening or if you roll up your sleeves and aid heat loss this way.

A a university qualification

B a unit for measuring anlges

C the amount or level of something

D a unit for measuring temperature

2. Some built-in nonlinear solvers, such as ode or optim, require a specific function as ARGUMENT

A a conversation or discussion in which two or more people disagree

B one of the parameters on which a function's value depends

C a reason or set of reasons used to show that something is true

3. For a system to work two PARTIES engaging in a secure transaction across the Internet must know each other's public keys.

A a group of people who have the same political aims and ideas

B one of the people or groups of people involved in a legal case

C a social occasion to which people are invited in order to eat, drink and enjoy themselves

4. So one of the main targets for preventive medicine today must be to keep old people MOBILE.

A a decoration made of small objects that is hung up and moves when the wind blows

B able to move easily from one job, place or social class to another

C UK a telephone that you can carry with you and use anywhere - mobile phone

D able to move or be moved quickly and easily

5. Blood is a major body TISSUE that carries food and oxygen to other TISSUES.

A the mass of cells that form the bodies of humans, animals and plants

B thin soft paper that you use for putting around things that may break

C a thin piece of paper that you use to clean your nose and throw away after you have used it

6. At the same time, companies' profit MARGINS have been squeezed.

A the amount of time, space, votes etc by which you win something

B the difference between the amount of money a company earns and the amount it spends

C the empty space at the side of a page in a book

7. Secure transactions across the Internet have three GOALS.

A a point that is scored when the ball goes into the goal

B the area between two posts into which the ball must be kicked or hit for a point to be scored

C your purpose or aim

8. There are several classic and well known periodic SOLUTIONs to the three body problem of Newtonian mechanics.

A a way of dealing with a problem, an answer

B a liquid mixed with a solid or a gas

C a way of dealing with a difficult situation

9. Tiny "computers" on a CHIP are used in medical equipment, home appliances, cars and toys.

A to kick or hit a ball a short distance through the air

B a small piece of silicon that is used inside a computer to make it work

C a thin piece of potato fried in hot fat or oil

D the place where a small piece of stone, glass, wood etc. has broken off

E to break a small piece off the edge or surface of something

10. Financial markets have grown more VOLATILE since exchange rates were freed in 1973.

A that can change suddenly and unexpectedly

B that can easily change into a gas

C changing quickly from one mood to another

11. At the same time, companies' profit margins have been SQUEEZED.

A to force sb/sth into or through a small space

B the amount of liquid that you can get from squeezing an orange

C an act of pressing something firmly

D to press something hard for a particular purpose

12. This server covers the Commodore range of 8 BIT computers, but mainly the Commodore 64.

A a part of something

B the smallest unit of information used by a computer

C use your teeth to cut through something (past tense)

D a small amount

13. During the last hundred years, though, a completely new CLASS of instruments has appeared.

A a group of students who are taught together

B a group of words, plants, animals etc. of a similar type

C to put something or somebody into a particular group or type

D informal - high quality

E the way people are divided into social groups

14. A WAVE is a disturbance that moves through a medium without causing the medium itself to move significantly.

A to move your hand from side to side, usually to attract attention

B a gentle curve in your hair

C a line of water moving across the surface of water, especially the sea, that is higher than the rest of the surface

D the form that some types of energy, such as sound, heat and light etc take when they move

15. TABLES that give the daily positions of the Sun, Moon and other planets can easily be obtained.

A (UK) to suggest something for discussion

B (USA) to leave discussion to a later time

C a piece of furniture with a flat top supported by legs

D a list of facts or figures, usually arranged in rows and columns down a page

(To check your answers go to http://www.uefap.com/vocab/exercise/dic/mean.htm)

Task 2. Write down the subjects in which the following words are frequent.