Comprehension check

Exercise 1. Answer the questions.

1. What way out of the possible war danger was proposed?

2. How could you characterize the conventionalists and developers of the new tool of communication?

Exercise 2.

• Summarize the information about the reasons that could possibly spark the

Development of the Internet, according to the texts.

• Retell the story of Tim Berners-Lee as a WWW founder using the information

Given above.

Exercise 3. Read the text and entitle it.

We know that the story of the World Wide Web started at CERN, Switzerland. That was its birthplace. But what about the present day? We must mention the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, better known as MIT. Here the Web and its

founder Tim Berners-Lee currently reside. MIT collaborates with CERN and 52 European INRA to develop the Web Project. Much research is being carried out and supervised from the Laboratory for Computer Science at MIT.

Find some extra information of your own concerning Internet-related research of today.

LANGUAGE ACTIVITY

Exercise 1. Paraphrase the underlined expressions and words.

1. The problem was how the army could communicate around the zones involved

into the nuclear war events.

2. Bill Gates and Paul Allen are controlling the Microsoft Corporation with more

than 18.000 employees and 48 companies.

3. Information goes to its destination by whatever route is available passing through many other computers on the way.

4. These two projects are so highly technical that they are completely incomprehensible to those who are not foremost scientists.

5. A special team experienced in the field of new technologies was consulting the

government.

6. Tim Berners-Lee was introduced to computers while a child.

7. This engineer’s current interests include multimedia conferencing, electronic mail, very large networks and very high speed communications.

8. The Microsoft Network was intended as a pay-as-you-go online services.

TEXT 4

WORD-STUDY

Exercise 1. Check the transcription in the dictionary and read the words listed

below:

Nouns term, surface, portion, brightness, hue, tablet, digitizer, raster, pattern, portion

Verbs coat, energize, determine, supplant

Adjectives pictorial, various, typical

Exercise 2. Read and translate the collocations:

animated motion pictures, energized by the electron beam, resulting image, pressure sensitive tablet, preexisting images on the paper, pattern-recognition device, architectural drafting, widespread use, raster graphics.

Exercise 3. Match the synonyms.

Verbs

1. display

2. energize

3. record

4. generate

5. emerge

6. convert

a) appear

b) activate

c) exist

d) produce

e) show

f) transform

g) write down

h) refresh

Nouns

1. term

2. portion

3. intensity

4. hue

5. dot

a) activity

b) color

c) word

d) sector

e) point

f) beam

g) screen

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