Английский язык для студентов технического вуза: Средства массовой информации. Мир продвинутых технологий. Учебное пособие - 79 стр.

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14 Read the advertisement and the explanation below and answer the
questions.
· What is the capacity of the hard drive?
· What size is the monitor?
· Which input devices are supplied?
· How fast is the processor?
· What is the memory size of this PC?
· Which operating system does it use?
· What multimedia features does the computer have?
1 Intel Pentium IV 1.7 GHz Processor
2 Mini Tower Chassis
3 256 MB Rambus RDRAM
4 60GB Hard Drive
5 Embedded Intel 3D Direct AGP video with 65MB SDRAM
6 64-voice wavetable sound
7 48 X CD-ROM Drive
8 19” (17.9”VIS) Colour SVGA monitor
9 Microsoft Windows XP
10 1.44MB 3.5” Floppy Drive
11 Microsoft Intellimouse
12 105-keys keyboard
1 The main processing chip that operates at a clock speed of 1.7 thousand
million cycles per second.
2 A small size of tall and narrow style of case containing the computer system.
3 256 megabyte of Rambus dynamic type of main memory chips that
constitute the computer RAM.
4 A hard drive internal storage device with a capacity of 60.000 million bytes.
5 A video controller for controlling the monitor screen that is built on to the
computer motherboard. It can process 3 В images using the AGP type of video
bus interface. It also contains approx. 64 million bytes of synchronous dynamic
random access memory that is used as video memory.
6 A soundcard that has 64 voices and generates sounds using the wave table
system.
7 A CD-ROM storage device that operates at 48 times the speed of the
original CD-ROM devices.
8 A colour monitor for displaying output on a screen at resolutions determined
by the SVGA standard. The diagonal measurement of the whole screen is 19
inches but the diagonal measurement of the actual viewable area of the screen is
only 17.9 inches.
9 The operating system that is used to control the system.
(Eric H. Glendinning, John McEwan Oxford English for Information Technology..
Oxford University Press 2002. p 11)