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a) He said, told us, stated, added, declared, reminded, mentioned, explained
1) An up-to-date computer system is made up of five fundamental units.
2) The ALU performs the most important operations.
3) The two basic types of memories known respectively as ROM and RAM are
designed for storing information.
4) Diskettes would be a typical example of secondary memories.
5) The system unit, the keyboard, the video display unit, the printer and optionally the
mouse could be called the basic components of a personal computer (PC).
6) Any computer system must have two modes: A/N or text mode and graphic mode.
7) Characters can be black, white or displayed in colour with 8 back ground and 16
foreground colours.
8) In addition to the standard characters there are special characters for supporting
games and text processing.
b) She asked, wanted to know, didn’t know, wondered, tried to find out, couldn’t
understand.
1) What is each display character position defined by?
2) Can each dot on the screen be programmed with any of the four colours?
3) How many bytes are required for the 80 column per 25 rows display?
4) Will one byte represent 8 or 16 pixels on the screen?
5) What kind of resolution mode used 16000 bytes of memory?
6) Must the personal computer be connected to either 84-keys or 101-keys
keyboard?
VIII. Paraphrase the following questions beginning with “I wonder”
1) Could you explain me the difference between ROM and RAM?
2) What unit must store information?
3) What do you mean by saying “up-to-date computer”?
4) Will artificial intelligence be used on a wide scale in the near future?
5) What is the system unit powered from?
Text C. A message from the President
Part I.
Dear Valued Customer, since its inception in 1985, Corel has been renowned in
the software industry for consistently developing innovative software and
revolutionary technology. To complement our extensive line of acclaimed business
applications, graphics products and Internet/intranet software, we offer an exceptional
level of commitment to our corporate and government customers. We deliver on this
commitment by fulfilling three core objectives.
Corel provides customers with leading-edge, open standards technology on a
variety of platforms including Java™, Windows® 95, Windows NT®, Windows®
3.1x, DOS, UNIX and Macintosh
®
. With our commitment to Java development, we

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