Test 18
Средства массовой информации (Интернет)
Раздел 2. (задания по чтению)
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1. An easy way of sharing information
2. In no time
3. A cheap and quick possibility to call
4. The secret of the Internet
5. A new method of navigation
6. A wide range of users
7. A new way of sending letters
8. Started as a military defense system
A. Unless you never watch TV, listen to a radio, or read, you almost certainly have heard about the Internet or know something about it. Very few people have never heard of the Internet; however most people have either used the Internet occasionally or frequently. It doesn’t take much to know that the Internet has attracted an enormous amount of attention. What would cause thousands of companies, millions of people and virtually every major country in the world to invest millions of dollars into the Internet? An even better question is what would caused something that operated for nearly 20 years without much public interest to grow to such overwhelming popularity today? What truly is all this fuss about?
B. Don’t get me wrong but the Internet has its complex side. It is a well-thought out network with lots of technical languages and protocols that make it work. But that complexity has simply made it easier for the average person to use. From doctors, lawyers, professors, scientist to hobbyist, housewives and elementary students all have found something of value on the Internet.
C. The Internet is considered by many to be superior to the best and biggest libraries in the county. Not having to wait for a book, newspaper, or magazine publisher to review and send an author’s manuscript to a printing press to be bound or printed eliminates the time it would normally take to publish something. Instead of reading a medical breakthrough in next month’s journal, it can be published on the Internet instantly. A breaking news event can be published almost immediately after the event occurs. People don’t have to wait until the morning paper to read about an event. This part of the Internet alone has helped make the Internet a technological breakthrough.
D. Many people use the Internet to simple send messages and nothing else. Whether it be by news groups, chat rooms, or the most popular method email, communicating over the Internet has developed vast appeal and usage. Billions of people around the globe use e-mail to communicate every day. They all place great value on the convenience of sending and receiving email. I am one of its biggest fans. email can be sent and retrieved by its recipient almost instantly. The message never has to be printed or physically mailed to get to its destination. Furthermore, the cost is considerably less than a postage stamp and is delivered a lot faster.
E. With the invention of the Internet phone, some people can now even talk across the Internet just like on a voice phone but without paying long distance charges. It is just a fact; the time it takes to send a letter or reply to a phone message is no match for email’s speed and convenience.
F. The Internet’s history is not very complicated nor that long. It may surprise you to know that the Internet began in 1968 as an experiment of the US Defense Department. In fact, it was not originally designed for the public’s personal use. The original goal of the Internet was to establish a system to safeguard the exchange of information among different government agencies in the event of war. With no one computer or person controlling the Internet, the enemy could not destroy our means of communication with just one military strike. Today this unique feature of the Internet remains constant and part of its success.
G. What really caused the Internet’s tremendous growth was the invention of something that made the Internet both easy to use and easy to transmit multimedia (graphics, sound and video). The invention was a software product now known as a browser. In 1991 in an European physics lab, an invention was made that enabled words in a sentence to be clicked on and an action then performed. This invention today is know as hypertext . Hypertext is when words or pictures are clicked on that takes the place of typing commands into the computer. This single feature made the Internet easier to use. This has forever changed the way average people use the Internet.
Тексты | A | B | C | D | E | F | G |
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Peter the Great
Born in Moscow, Russia on June 9, 1672, Peter the Great was a Russian czar in the late 17th
Salons or Not, Cyberspace Is Still a Distant Place for Most Cubans
By the standards of many Cubans, Lazaro Noa García is an adept internaut. He emails his daughter in Mexico a couple of times a week at a cyber salon in his suburb, and checks soccer scores and news on Yahoo.
Until last month, though, the closest cyberspace was the painfully slow email service at his local post office. Then on June 4, Etecsa, the state telecom company, opened 118 internet salons around the island, expanding public Web access in what is regarded as the least wired country in the Western Hemisphere. Mr. García immediately signed up.
“This is like a Three Kings’ Day gift,” Mr. García said of his newfound Internet access, referring to the Jan. 6 holiday when people dressed as the Magi hand out goodies to children. But as gifts go, it is extremely expensive, he said. At $4.50 an hour, a session at one of the new cyber salons costs almost as much as the average state worker earns in a week, prompting many Cubans to wonder whether President Raúl Castro is serious about bringing the Internet to the masses, or just playing for time.
“At this price, hardly anyone is going to be using it,” said Mr. García, who figured he could afford to buy an hour or two a week because his daughter helped him out and he had just sold his house.
Cuba’s limited Internet access is a source of strong dissatisfaction among Cubans, millions of whom have never been online. Some people – medics, for example, or journalists – qualify for a dial-up connection at home. Others use pirated connections, rent time on a neighbor’s line or log on at a hotel, where they pay about $8 an hour. Many trade information on memory sticks or rely on state-run periodicals for news.
Government figures indicate 26 percent of Cubans had Internet access last year, but this includes millions who entered only at their work. The International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations agency for information and communications technology, puts the number of broadband subscriptions in Cuba at about one in 2,500. That is lower than in Haiti and Sudan, two places that are not considered the least bit tech-friendly.
A 7 Lazaro Noa García is an experienced user of the Net.
1) True 2) False 3) Not stated
A 8 Mr. García uses a very slow internet service.
1) True 2) False 3) Not stated
A 9 The situation with the public Web access in Cuba has changed for the better.
1) True 2) False 3) Not stated
A 10 Mr. García spends hours searching the Net now.
1) True 2) False 3) Not stated
A 11 Many Cubans still cannot afford the internet connection.
1) True 2) False 3) Not stated
A 12 The high price of the internet connection may prevent workers from using it.
1) True 2) False 3) Not stated
A 13 The Cubans try to find some other ways of access to the Net.
1) True 2) False 3) Not stated
A 14 The government is satisfied with the 26 percent of the internet access in the country.
1) True 2) False 3) Not stated
Раздел 3. (задания по грамматике и лексике)
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В4 В5 B6 В7 В8 B9 В10 B11 B12 | Computer Dreamer Who Invented the MouseDouglas C. Engelbart was 25, just engaged to ______ and thinking about his future when he had a dream in 1950 that _________ the world. He had a good job working at a government aerospace laboratory in California, but he wanted to do something ________ with his life, something of value that might last, even outlive him. Then it came to him. In a single stroke he ________ what might be safely called a complete vision of the information age. The angel in his dream spoke to him of technology’s potential _________ human intelligence, and from it he made out a career that indeed had lasting impact. It led to a host of inventions that became the basis for the Internet and the modern personal computer. In ________ years, one of those inventions was given a warmhearted name, reminding of a small, furry creature given to scurrying across flat surfaces: the computer mouse. Computing was in its infancy when Dr. Engelbart entered the puters were ungainly room-size calculating machines that could ________ by only one person at a time. Someone would feed them information in stacks of punched cards and then wait hours for a printout of answers. Interactive computing was a thing of the future, or in science fiction. But it was growing in ________ restless mind. In his dream, he saw himself ________ in front of a large computer screen full of different symbols. The screen, he thought, would serve as a display for a workstation that would organize all the information and communications for a given project. | MARRY CHANGE MUCH HAVE EXPAND LATE USE DR. ENGELBART SIT |
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В13 В14 В15 В16 В17 В18 | The Internet is _________ the most crucial technology of the modern world, the useful application has not only made our lives easier than ever before but it also plays a very important role in the future _________. Everyone is of course very well known that the Internet has the global advantages than just a few concentrated ones. With the ___________ of the Internet the global communication has become a matter of just the finger tips of the users. The Internet has brought about the various different, innovative communication means like the emailing, chatting, and the voice conversation system over the Internet. These systems have not only made the communication easy but also the ________ lives interactions following the business of people living on the other sides of the world. The other blessings of the Internet include the _______ resources that we can get over the net and also the _________ which are the games, websites, and media access which was never so easy before. | DOUBTEDLY DEVELOP INTRODUCE DAY NUMBER INTERTAIN |
Раздел 4 (задания по письму)
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You have 30 minutes to do this task.
You have received a letter from your English-speaking pen friend Mick.
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White a letter to him and answer his 3 questions.
Write 100–120 words. Remember the rules of letter writing.
Ключи
Раздел 2
Задание В3
1 - extra
Тексты | A | B | C | D | E | F | G |
Заголовки | 4 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 5 |
Задание А7–А14
A7 –1, A8 – 2, A9 – 1, A10 – 3, A11 – 1, A12 – 1, A13 – 1, A14 – 3.
Раздел 3
Задание В4–В12
B4 – be married, B5 – would change, B6 – more, B7 – had, B8 – to expand, B9 – later, B10 – be used, B11 – Dr. Engelbart’s, B12 – sitting.
Задания В13–В18
B13 – undoubtedly, B14 – developments, B15 – introduction, B16 – daily, B17 – numerous, B18 – entertainment.
Раздел 4
Задание С1
Hello Mick,
I’m glad to receive another letter from you. It took a lot of time to get it, it could be much quicker if you sent an e-mail. So I think that the internet communication is very useful. But, may be, you are right that we don’t see each other very often now and become less and less physically active.
It’s a good idea of having a holiday. You can travel to some popular country like Italy or Greece. I don’t think you should go alone as it’s very boring not to have a company. On the other hand, you may make new friends there. Anyway, it’s up to you to decide.
Best wishes,
Max.
