开放教育专科计算机专业计算机英语复习题

开放教育专科计算机专业《计算机英语》复习题

I. Translation

1. buffering

2. terminal

3. encryption

4. hyperlink

5. coding

6. attack

7. toolbar

8. menu

9. icon

10. date base

11. compiler

12. chip

13. mainframe

14. hardware

15. program

16. instruction

17. processor

18. magnetic disk

19. hard disk

20. data structure

21. input

22. output

23. flat form

24.coding

25.web page

26.decompress

27.documentation

28.debugger

29.RAM

30.multimedia

Ⅱ. Reading Comprehension

Passage One

Get with the Program

I have learned to use my computer as a productive tool in my everyday life, and you can too. We live in the computer age, and you need to get with the program.

Here are some basic computer terms.

Hardware. This is the part of the computer that stops working when you spill beer on it.

Software. These programs give instructions to the CPU, which processes billions of tiny facts called bytes, and within a fraction of a second it sends you an error message that requires you to call the customer-support hot line.

RAM. This gives guys a way of deciding whose computer has the biggest memory. That's important because the more memory a computer has, the faster it can produce error message.

The Internet is the single most important development in the history of human communications since the invention of call waiting. A bold statement? Indeed, but consider how the Internet can enhance our lives.

Imagine that you need to: 1. make an airline reservation: 2. buy concert tickets;

3. research a tax question; and

4. help your child with a school report. Now you simply turn on your computer, dial up your Internet access number, and in less than an instant, you are listening to a busy signal!

Once you get through, you are connected to millions of people all over the globe and can "chat" with total strangers.

We are only beginning to touch the surface of the computer's capabilities. We do not know what lies around the next bend on the information highway. All we know for certain is that when we finally get there, we won't have enough RAM.

Answer the following questions according to the passage.

1. What is hardware?

2. What can decide the memory of a computer?

3. What is the most important development in the history of human communications?

4. Why does the author say "We are only beginning to touch the surface of the

computer's capabilities?

5. What is the tone(口气) of the writer in describing the computer, serious, joking, cheerful or sad?

Passage Two

Computers

I wasn't worried when my son bought a computer. After all, lots of children have parents who don' t understand computers. But when my secretary asked for a computer in the office, well, I did become anxious then. She claims to know nothing about technical matters. She even used to ask me to thread the new ribbon (色带) in her typewriter. And if she understood computers, then I was obviously out of date. I decided to take a series of lessons in computing. My son treated me very kindly. He invited me to sit down in front of his VDU and, when I asked him what a VDU was, he explained it was the television screen I was looking at. All computer experts apparently call it a video (录像) display unit or VDU for short. I didn't like to ask him why, so instead I asked him about the computer itself. From that moment, my memory of the lesson becomes vague (模糊的) because he told me a lot of things that I really don' t understand at all. For example, he told me about the computer's memory. Apparently, it's got 16 MB of memory that he seemed to find very impressive. The computer uses part of its memory to remember how it works. Well that seems logical. Part to remember the information you give it and part to remember what to do with the information. When I heard all that, I began to feel a bit tired. I also wondered where you kept all this information after the computer had been switched off. Apparently this isn't a problem. You use a disc drive. You can store all the information you want to keep on a small piece of magnetic coated plastic which my son called a floppy disc. You can store it in a series of files: When I heard that I