Английский язык: Сборник текстов и упражнений. Иваненко Т.И. - 57 стр.

мацией, пользователь Интернета, конкретная тема, посылать сообщение-подтверждение,
подписываться на, удалить предыдущее сообщение, текстовый редактор, идентификатор
пользователя, системный почтовый ящик, получатель, заранее удаленное сообщение, за-
головок, состоять из двух частей, представлять на рассмотрение.

       II. Translate into Russian.
       To access a huge network, entirely, to participate in discussion, to mail a message, elec-
tronic mail address, to set up an alias, in other words, to discuss problems, mailing list, to be de-
voted to a specific topic, to send summery, confirmation messages, to send copies, to unsub-
scribe to specified mailing list, single shell command, to delete current message, specified userid,
to reply to sender, to display top few lines of message, to save header, actual text of the message,
title and short abstract, signature.

      III. Construct sentences using fragments from A and B.
      A.
      1) If you want to mail a message to more than one person, …
      2) All you need to know to access a discussion group is …
      3) People can talk, argue, help one another, discuss …
      4) Everything that anyone says goes to …
      5) A group of people, who sometimes are called executives, …
      6) Every mail message has standard format …
      7) The header consists of a …

      B.
      1) … problems, share information, and so on.
      2) … number of lines of information at the beginning of the message.
      3) … to know how to send and read mail.
      4) … are in other words, a discussion group.
      5) … consisting of two parts: the header and the body.

     IV. Decide whether the following statements are true or false by referring to the in-
formation in both texts. Introduce the necessary changes so that the false statements be-
come true (T/F):
     a) To access a huge network of discussion groups is possible entirely by mail. __________
     b) To participate in these discussions, you need to use Usenet. ______________________
     c) Everything that anyone says does not go to all the people in the group. ______________
     d) As an Internet user, you have access to several thousand such lists. _________________
     e) The body is the actual text of the message. ____________________________________
     f) The format of the header may vary on your system. _____________________________

      V. Explain the meanings of the terms alias, executives, and mailing lists.

      VI. Answer the following questions.
      1) What is a discussion group?
      2) What can people do if they are in a discussion group?
      3) Can we call people in a discussion group executives?
      4) Can you have access to several thousand mailing lists as an Internet user?
      5) What does a standard format for every mail message consists of?

     VII. Think and say:
     A) Speak about discussion group starting with: “I should say that …”. B) Ponder over the
contents of a mailing list.

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