Speaking. Discuss the following questions.
1. What is data representation?
2. How do computers represent data digitally?
3. How can a computer represent words and letters using bits?
4. How does a computer convert music and pictures into codes?
5. When a computer works with a series of 1s and 0s, how does it know which
code to use?
6. How can you tell the difference between bits and bytes?
7. What do the prefixes kilo-, mega- and giga- mean?
8. How does a computer store and transport all those bits?
9. What’s a computer chip?
10. What provides connectivity between all the constituent parts of the computer?
Text B
Pre-reading. Match the English words with their Russian equivalents.
1. cache memory
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a) внутренний генератор тактовых или синхронизирующих импульсов
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2. CMOS
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b) конвейерный режим; конвейерная обработка
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3. benchmark
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c) постоянно замонтированный; с фиксированным монтажом
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4. internal clock
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d) сверхоперативная память
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5. pipelining
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e) эталонный тест для проверки производительности компьютера
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6. hard-wired
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f) комплементарный металлооксидный полупроводник (КМОП)
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Reading. Read the text and try to guess the meaning of the words in bold font. Check your variants in the dictionary.
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