Английский язык для студентов технического вуза: Средства массовой информации. Ковалева Ю.Ю - 63 стр.

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LISTENING
4 Listen to the description of the Internet tools. For each Internet tool
fill in the information from the recording.
1. The URL (Uniform Resource Locator)
2. The DNS (Domain Name Server)
3. The Web server
4. The IP address
5 Listen to the recording again and complete the following expressions.
______________ a webpage hyperlink _____________ own IP address
to send a request to _____________ _______ separate data packets
to determine ___________________ _______the best available path
6 Use the expressions from the previous activity and describe the
process of getting necessary data on the Net.
VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR
7 Match the words/phrases (1-6) to the definitions (a-f).
1 the Internet
2 the Web
3 a web site
4 surfing the
net
5 e-mail
6 downloading
A moving from one document or web site to another, to find
information
B copying information from a web site to your own computer
C a network of computers all over the world, joined by phone lines,
satellite or cable
D a system linking millions of documents stored on Internet
computers around the world
E the place on the Internet where a company/ organization/etc
stores its documents
F electronic messages sent to someone over the Internet
8 Fill in the blanks using the words and expressions from the previous
activity.
1 As the amount of information available via _____ grew, indexing and search
services such as Gopher, Archie, Veronica, and WAIS were created by Internet
users to help both themselves and others.
2 To increase their attractiveness, portals expanded rapidly in the late 1990s to
offer a wide variety of services such as personalized start-up pages, free _____,
directories, customized news and weather reports, online calendars, games, and
free Web space.
3 _____ is a graphical interface that provides easy access to information on
computers anywhere in the world connected to the Internet.