Computer in Use. Маркушевская Л.П - 66 стр.

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Университет ИТМО | Санкт-Петербург

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Nouns
1 2
1. mode
2. finding
3. purpose
4. tool
5. tutorial
6. medium
7. customer
a) aim
b) environment
d) textbook
e) client
f) discovery
g) instrument
h) way
i) distribution
j) capability
k) creation
TEXT 1
Comprehensive reading
The italicized sentences are to be translated into Russian.
USES OF THE WEB
The fact that the Web is being widely used for multiple purposes is without
question. But before overviewing its benefits it is worth considering one fact that
became a crucial event for it. The question is about a new mode of presenting
information. Before, over the Internet and other wide area networks, the text has been
the main mode of presentation. The Web changed that. Now the information could be
presented in graphical format, complete with font choices and incorporated drawings,
photographs, tables and other multimedia elements. These graphical elements offered
different kinds of information and information providers were able to search
precisely suitable elements. The result of these innovations is that the Web’s
capabilities are increasing, its information becomes more comprehensible too. Of
course the work has to be done right and those who care about their information
perfectly know how to do it.
The Web clients become more and more numerous to display fully formated
word processing and desktop publishing files.
One of the first to use the Web was science. Dissemination of research and
scientific findings has always been one of the purposes of the Internet and of the Web
project at CERN in Switzerland. Today the Web is used as a tool of exchanging
scientific information as it has been considered to do. But perhaps more important is
that the Web is used to make research discoveries available to the general public,
most of this information being presented so that it becomes as easy understandable as
possible. Publicly funded research agencies are interested in making their work
known to the public, in finding new ways to place their information. Booklets and
pamphlets distributed through mailing are expensive and usually ignored. The Web is

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