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Emphasising: cleft sentences
| Compare these sentences: 1. We need an electronic version available anywhere and updated regularly. 2. What we need is an electronic version available anywhere and updated regularly. In (2) the object of the sentence is made more important. We can use What...be in this way to emphasise the subject or object of a sentence. | Now compare these: 3. Babbage invented the world's first mechanical computer. 4. It was Babbage that invented the world's first mechanical computer. 5. It was the world's first mechanical computer that Babbage invented. We can use /f is/was... that to emphasise almost any part of a sentence. |
I Rewrite these sentences to emphasise the underlined words.
1. These days you never know when your computer system will go down due to viruses, sabotage or natural disaster.
2. We suggest that everyone back-up their files regularly.
3. Over the past 10 years ECO Data Recovery has saved many individuals and companies by retrieving their lost data!
4. The installation of a firewall coupled with anti-virus protection will greatly reduce your chances of becoming a hacker's next victim.
5. In early 2000 most people became aware of the dangers of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks when a series of them knocked such popular Web sites as Yahoo, CNN, and Amazon off the air.
6. Spindle motor failure can result from excessive heat due to a bearing failure.
7. Everyone knows that computers are constantly getting faster, more powerful, and less expensive.
8. Most sound cards give you the power to plug in speakers and a microphone.
9. Movies on DVD can also have more than one sound track.
10. Most computer users never change how their file and folder windows look.
Prefixes, - ise verbs
These prefixes are common in IT terminology.
Quantity
(* approximate decimal value) | Prepositions
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Others
| prefix | meaning | examples |
| auto | by itself | automated |
| cyber | machine control | cyberspace |
| super | higher in quantity or degree | superhighway |
II Complete the sentences using the following -ise verb forms:
c omputerise, randomise, categorise, minimise, unauthorise, personalise, customise, specialize.
1. The real value of a good software application is often its ability … information in a way that facilitates easy extraction and analysis by people.
2. People are using biometric software, such as fingerprints and facial recognition, to prevent … logging onto their computer systems.
3. Even though the majority of PC software has the flexibility to generate, store and distribute data formatted to the users requirements, … applications are still favored by businesses.
4. It could be said that computer programmers working on medical research projects are highly ….
5. Manually kept records such as patient medical histories can be … for quick and easy access.
6. You can … the screen by clicking on the box icon beside the white X in the top right hand corner of this screen.
7. Users will want … their systems for a number of reasons, these include becoming more productive, solving a problem particular to their needs.
8. Most people do not really understand that computers cannot actually … anything; the best they can do is simulate the generation of random information to humans.
III Give definitions to the following terms.
1. Multimedia-- the combination of graphics, text, animation, video and sound.
2. Bidirectional frame- a type of image used in MPEG compression. It is situated between I and P frames and stores the differences in the image compared with the I or P frame both before and after it.
3. Hyperlink- a text or image in a webpage that causes a related webpage to be displayed or another program to be started when the user clicks on the hyperlink using the mouse.
4. Terabit- a unit of storage capacity equal to 1 009 511 627 776 bits.
5. Cyberspace- the combination of all the data on all the computer networks throughout the world accessed using the Internet.
6. Internet- the connection of computer networks across the world.
7. Anti- virus software- a set of computer programs used to detect, identify and remove viruses from a computer system.
8. Microprocessor- the main electronic chip in a computer. It can be thought as the ”brain” of the computer because it does the main processing and controls the other parts of the computer. It is sometimes called the CPU.
9. Telecommunication- a branch of technology concerned with communications over long distances.
10. Intranet- computer network that is internal to an organization and uses the TCP/IP protocol in the same way as the Internet.
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