Computer in Use. Маркушевская Л.П - 40 стр.

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2. The Agency realized that machines b) to the rising American cold war
paranoia.
3. The researches in IPTO … c) was an immediate success.
4. In 1969 the first network computers d) needed greater capability to interact
or JMP … with each other to gather relevant
information, etc.
e) was the project.
f) were ready.
Exercise 2. Choose the correct word to complete the sentence.
1. The … was designed to perform long term high risk/pay off research.
a) agency
b) institute
c) office
2. …work had to be done.
a) Successful
b) Enormous
c) Useless
3. As a further step towards improvement of the networking … was the proposal to
connect all computers in the research community via dial-up telephones.
a) telegraph
b) telephones
c) radio
4. The most important work was the … of communicational setting terms as protocol.
a) excluding
b) implementing
c) containing
5. Protocols became a kind of … among the connected computers.
a) tasks
b) results
c) lingua franca
WORD-STUDY
Exercise 1. Check the transcription in the dictionary and read the words listed
below.
Nouns
novelty, query, spirit, stability, possibility, participant, hierarchy, scheme,
witness
Verbs
involve, graduate, excite, succeed, ensure