Вопрос № 347373 - Английский язык

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A lot of knowledge is a dangerous thing for addicts of the Internet. Information is becoming the drug of the new century.
The research, conducted among 1000 managers in Britain, America, Europe and the Far East shows that, as information sources such as the Internet and cable news channels proliferate, we are witnessing the rise of a generation of dataholics.
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What are people who use the Internet a lot called?

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The World Wide Web (WWW) is a part of the Internet. But it’s not a collection of networks. Rather, it is information that is connected or linked together like a web. You access this information through one interface or tool called a Web browser. The number of resources and services that are part of the World Wide Web is growing extremely fast. In 1996 there were more than 20 million users of the WWW, and more than half the information that is transferred across the Internet is accessed through the WWW. By using a computer terminal (hardware) connected to a network that is a part of the Internet, and by using a program (software) to browse or retrieve information that is a part of the World Wide Web, the people connected to the Internet and World Wide Web through the local providers have access to a variety of information.

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Health questions have been raised by the people who sit all day in front of the video display terminals (VDTs) of their computers. Are computer users getting bad radiation? What about eyestrain? And what about the age-old back problem, updated with new concerns about workers who hold their hands over a keyboard? What about repetitive-action injury also known as carpal tunnel syndrome? What about the risk of miscarriage?
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Who often asks questions about health?

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Using upper case letters (capital letters) in a keyword search will only retrieve documents that use upper case. Typing in lower case (no capitals) is usually better because search engines will retrieve documents that use both upper case and lower case letters.

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Sir Clive Sinclair didn’t invent the home computer, but he brought it within the reach of the man in the street. 1____________________________. The Sinclair ZX80 sold for L99.95.
2_____________________________. Today’s personal computers have a memory of at least 512 Kilobytes. 3______________________________. It displayed 24 or 32-character lines on a home TV screen. 4____________________________.

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1___________________________. The computer is “told” what to do, in terms of “on” or “off”: actually, “1” or “0”. 2______________________________. A 1 or 0 is very limited information – a bit. Computers need eight bits to identify just one number or letter – a byte. 3_________________________________. 4_____________________________.