B. Text Study. Область техники, обычная телефонная трубка, мобильный Интернет, скорость передачи данных, главная проблема

Область техники, обычная телефонная трубка, мобильный Интернет, скорость передачи данных, главная проблема, пользователь, сотовая связь, всемирная информационная сеть, различные банковские услуги, заказ билетов, быть доступным в любое время, в наши дни.

Text A

A. Text Study

I. Look at the title (and the pictures). What do you think this reading will be about? Read the text and define its main idea.

CELLULAR COMMUNICATION AND MOBILE INTERNET

Telephone, television, cellular communication and W. W. W. (World Wide Web — Internet) — all these are different conceptions creating an enormous net for mankind.

Mobile Internet is the main "know-how"; it is a break into and out of the borders.

In the West millions of non-business people, even housewives have two or three apparatus of cellular communication.

Speed is the main problem of today in that sphere of technology, which is linked in our sense with an ordinary telephone receiver.

Mobile Internet and mobile video are impossible without speed, as the speed of data transmitting is the main problem nowadays.

By the year 2004 there will be 120 million users of Mobile Internet and every fourth user will do it with the help of cellular communication for working in the W. W. W. Different services of banks, shopping, booking tickets for all kinds of transport, for cinemas, exhibitions, theatres — all these will be accessible at any time and place.

By the year 2001 more than a half subscribers of mobile nets will use WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) — it is an electronic language worked out especially for the Mobile Internet.

Most devices of cellular communications will be exposed as an Internet Language.

The electronic mail, voice messages, trade, bank operations, etc. will be carried out with their help.

With the help of high technology there is a tendency to obtain the speed of 11 megabits per second, comparing with the speed of 9,8 kilobits nowadays.

Using Internet mankind will have cellular voice and video communication nets all over the world, and its ring will cost no more than a local ring.

II. Read the text again carefully and answer the questions.

1. What conceptions create an enormous net for mankind?

2. What main “know-how” is a break into and out of the borders?

3. What people have apparatus of cellular communication?

4. What are Mobile Internet and mobile video impossible without?

5. What is the main problem of today in that sphere of technology, which is linked in our sense with an ordinary telephone receiver?

6. What is W.W.W.?

7. What communication will be used by users of Mobile Internet for working in the W.W.W. by the year 2004?

8. What services will be accessible at any time and place?

9. When will more than a half subscribers of mobile nets use WAP?

10.What speed can be obtained with the help of high technology?

11.What will mankind have using Internet?

III. Which of the vocabulary units used in paragraphs 1-5 could be regarded as international words?

IV. Read the translation of the third and fourth paragraphs. Compare it with the original and say if everything is right.

На Востоке миллионы деловых людей, а не домохозяек, имеют по два и три аппарата сотовой связи.

Скорость в наши дни не проблема в той области техники, которая связана с восприятием обычного радиоприемника.

V. Find the English equivalents of the following words and word combinations in paragraphs 4, 5 and 6.

VI. Find a passage about WAP and translate it into Russian.

VII. Choose two passages and read them aloud (1-2 minutes).

VIII. Find complex grammar structures in the text and divide them into simple ones.

IX. Find out the subject-matter and the means of its secondary expression. e.g. Take the book from the table and put it into your bag.

X. Find key words, phrases and the topic sentences which express the general meaning of each paragraph best of all.

XI. Using the information obtained from the paragraphs make a plan of the text.

XII. Speak about cellular communication and Mobile Internet using key words, phrases, the topic sentences and the plan of the text.

I. Look at the title of the text. Make your predictions about the content of it. Read the text and answer the questions:

a. What is Facsimile Transmission?

b. When did Facsimile machines come into use?

c. Can personal computers imitate the operation of fax machines?

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