- •Хакасский государственный университет
- •Part II Texts for Supplementary Reading
- •Предисловие
- •The main parts of the computer
- •Using a mouse
- •Lesson 2
- •Word-building (словообразование) (1)
- •Keyboard
- •Windows program keyboard shortcuts
- •Lesson 3
- •Buses and interfaces
- •Word-building (2)
- •Lesson 4
- •Structure (phrases)
- •A) “hardware”
- •B) “data”
- •Lesson 5
- •What is a microprocessor?
- •Pentium, pentium pro, pentium II and pentium III
- •Lesson 6
- •Word-building (3)
- •Lesson 7
- •General dram concepts
- •Structure ( 2)
- •Lesson 8
- •Storage media
- •Word-building (4)
- •Incompatible, unrecoverable, unavailable, unusable, unsuitable, non-removable, non-contiguous, non-volatile.
- •Structure (3)
- •Lesson 9
- •«Ware» terms
- •Section II. Software lesson 10
- •Structure (4) Ex.2 a) Read the sentences and analyze their structure:
- •Programming language generations
- •Lesson 11
- •Word-building (5)
- •What is object-oriented software?
- •Inheritance
- •Object-oriented languages
- •Lesson 12
- •General operating system concepts
- •Wysiwyg – structure (5)
- •Imperative sentences (commands and instructions) :
- •Starting and quitting windows nt
- •2.Using the desktop
- •Ex.5 Translate into English:
- •Ex.6 Say a few words about:
- •Revision (sructure)
- •Lesson 14
- •Ex.3 Translate into English:
- •Config.Sys commands
- •Ex.6 Agree or disagree:
- •Lesson 15
- •Ex.1 Translate the following technologies into Russian:
- •Ex.2 a) Read and translate into Russian:
- •Ex.5 Read and translate into Russian: operating system overview
- •Operating systems and file systems
- •Lesson 16
- •General database concepts
- •Ex.4 Choose the right synonym to the word ‘query’: a) requirement; b) retrieval; c) request.
- •Section III. Networking lesson 17
- •What is a network?
- •How are networks categorized?
- •How does p2p work?
- •Information transmission media
- •Lesson 18
- •Computing network components
- •Ex.10 Read and translate into Russian:
- •Ex.11 Translate into English:
- •Lesson 19
- •The internet
- •Internet protocols
- •Surfing The Net. By Shirley.
- •Lesson 20
- •Basic security and licensing terms
- •How bytes and bits work
- •System case
- •How pci works
- •Motherboard and system devices
- •Graphics adapter
- •How it works
- •System cache
- •Ethernet
- •Traditional ethernet
- •Fast ethernet
- •Gigabit ethernet
- •How a computer virus works
- •General virus types
- •All maliicous codes aren’t viruses
- •Intel software license agreement (Final, Single User) (abstract)
- •Glossary
- •Defragment
- •Device Driver
- •Formatting
- •Operating system
- •Plug-n-Play
- •Program
- •Vesa Local Bus
- •Virtual Memory
- •It Crossword Puzzle
- •Answer keys
- •It Crossword Puzzle
- •List of acronyms and abbreviations
- •1. Terms used in computer field
- •2. Basic abbreviations used in scientific field
- •3.Irregular verbs
- •Bibliography Основная литература
- •Справочная литература
Using a mouse
A mouse or other pointing device works on the principle that first you point at something on your screen and then you click a mouse button to perform an action on that item.
As you move your mouse on a flat surface, the pointer moves on your screen. With the pointer on the item or area you want, you can do one of four things:
· Click
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Click this
To do this
Click: Press and release the left mouse button once.
Double-click: Quickly press and release the left mouse button twice.
Right-click: Press and release the right mouse button once. A shortcut menu appears.
· Drag
To move an item to another location, first point to it. Press and hold down the left or right mouse button, and point to where you want the object. Then release the mouse button.
b) Translate the following words and word-combinations into Russian:
pointing device
(to) click a mouse button
(to) perform an action on the item
(to) drag
once
twice
double-click
right-click
to move an item to another location
(to) hold down
Ex.8 Say what will happen if you … :
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Ex. 9 Read and translate the following international words. Mind the pronunciation.
Physical, electronic, mechanical, components, printer, processor, symbol, position, Personal Computer, object, location, typically, general, term, circular.
Lesson 2
Text A. Keyboard.
Word-building. The -er, -or suffixes.
Word-building (словообразование) (1)
Ex.1 a) Read and translate the following words and pay attention to the suffixes –er, -or. Analyze the meaning of these suffixes.
printer
processor
computer
identifier
driver
pointer
operator
b) Choose the right variant, put down the rule into your copybooks:
Суффиксы …, …,указывают на принадлежность слова к:
а)прилагательному; б)существительному; в)глаголу
и имеют значение:
а) человек, выполняющий определенные действия,
б) инструмент, прибор, с помощью которого можно выполнять определенные действия,
в) процесс выполнения определенных действий.
But: error [´erƏ] –ошибка ((to) err [Ə:] – ошибаться)
с) Translate the following words basing on their stem-forms, memorize them:
(to) program - программировать programmer
(to) use - использовать user
(to) load - загружать loader
(to) develop - разрабатывать, развивать developer
(to) browse - просматривать, пролистывать, обозревать browser
(to) explore - исследовать, изучать, проводить explorer
(to)provide- поставлять, предоставлять, обеспечиватьprovider
d) Translate into English:
Обрабатывать, пользователь, обозреватель, проводник, вычислять, отождествлять, разработчик, указатель, загружать, поставщик.
Ex.2 Read and translate the following text: