Вопрос № 284312 - Английский язык

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Ever wish you had saved a newspaper article, after you threw it away? With electronic newspapers, you can go online and find old articles you need for class discussions, reports or your own personal use.
"Everything that's appeared in The Mercury News for the last 10 years is available on our Web site or America Online," said Barry Parr of The San Jose Mercury News. "There are more than a million news stories in our database."
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What is the advantage of electronic newspapers?

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You can't carry a computer as easily as you can a newspaper, but you'll find a lot of other things to like about online newspapers.
More than 100 daily papers in the United States and Canada publish electronic editions. You can connect with them using your computer, a modem and an Internet browser.
Online newspapers have the most up-to-date news. Both USA Today and The San Jose (California) Mercury News add stories to their electronic editions throughout the day.
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How can you connect with electronic editions of daily papers?

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Computer keyboard is the set of typewriter-like keys that enables you to enter data into a computer. Computer keyboards are similar to electric-typewriter keyboards but contain additional keys. The keys on computer keyboards are often classified as follows:
alphanumeric keys - letters and numbers
punctuation keys - comma, period, semicolon, and so on.
special keys - function keys, control keys, arrow keys, Caps Lock key, and so on.
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What are computer keyboards similar to?

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Hard disk drive is the mechanism that reads and writes data on a hard disk. Hard disk drive has many inflexible platters (discs) coated with magnetic material. Read/write heads can record computer data on these discs. A typical hard disk rotates at 3,600 revolutions per minute, and the read/write heads ride over the surface of the disk on a cushion of air 25 micron deep. Hard disk drives (HDDs) for PCs generally have seek times of about 12 milliseconds or less. Hard disk drives are sometimes called Winchester drives. Winchester is the name of one of the first popular hard disk drive technologies developed by IBM in 1973.
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How are hard disk drives sometimes called?

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Monitor is another term for display screen. First monitors were black-and-white with cathode ray tube. Nowadays most monitors are colour monitors. Besides, colour LCD monitors are becoming more and more popular. Monitors have different screen sizes. Like televisions, screen sizes are measured in inches from one corner of the screen to the opposite corner diagonally. A typical size for small monitors is 14 inches. Monitors that are 16 or more inches diagonally are often called full-page monitors.
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What is the standard size for monitor?

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Break up the goat’s cheese, peeling if necessary and leave it to stand in a warm place. Bring the whipping cream to the boil, sprinkle on the gelatin and lemon juice and whisk for at least 1 min until the gelatine has fully dissolved. Add to the goat’s cheese, together with the cracked black pepper and chopped herbs and mix thoroughly.
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In what place do we leave the goat’s cheese?