COMPREHENSION CHECK

Answer the questions

1. What is software?
2. In what two basic groups software (programs) could be divided?
3. What is system software for?
4. What is an operating system – a system software or application software?
5. What is a ‘driver’?
6. What is application software?
7. What is application software used for?
8. What is the tendency in application software market in the recent years?
9. What is the application of the communication software?

Which of the following is Software

Program

Mouse

CPU

Word Processor

Modem

Web-browser

Operating System

Scanner

Printer

Display

Are the following sentences true or false? If they are false give the right variant.

1. Computer programs only instruct hardware how to handle data storage.
2. System software controls internal computer activities.
3. System software is very dependable on the type of application software being used.
4. The information about memory capacity, the model of the processor and disk drives are unavailable for system software.
5. The driver is a special device usually used by car drivers for Floppy-disk driving.
6. It is very reasonable to ask for a driver when you buy a new piece of hardware.
7. Software developers tend to make their products very small and with poor interface to save computer resources.
8. Communication software is in great demand now because of the new advances in communication technologies.
9. Application software is a general-purpose instrument.
10. Web-browsers is the class of soft6ware for electronic communication through the network.

Give definitions to the following

1. Software
2. Driver
3. Application software
4. Operating system
5. Communication software
6. Computer
7. Peripheral device
8. Operating system

UNIT 4

Read new words and translate the sentences

Date: 2015-01-12; view: 1421