Train Technical English

Number 35                                                                                 December 2011

Editorial

Within preparation of the e-book Internet English (its intended content is given in Number 33 – WWW, Part 1 / August 2011) let us continue in discussing the topic concerning website basic information (see Website – basic information). The discussion is aimed at developing an individual vocabulary and extending it by technical terms and expressions typical for this theme.

So, Exercise 1 is devoted to completing word formation charts by filling in gaps with a proper form of absent words. In general, the word formation charts provide the concept noun, personal noun, adjective and verb forms of key vocabulary.

The following three exercises deal with comprehension of texts about a website and with right selection of appropriate words. In Exercise 2 proper words are given in the box and they are supposed to be put in the right place in the subsequent text. In Exercise 3 a proper expression for filling in gaps in the text about Cookies should be chosen of four possibilities. Exercise 4 is first of all about comprehension. If you understand the text, you will easily match the words in Column A to the expressions in Column B. New and unknown terms and expressions might be found in the Internet English Vocabulary. Keys to these exercises are in Keys to Internet English.

Exercises

Exercise 1  Word formation charts – fill in gaps with a proper form of the word:

Exercise 2   Fill in the gaps using words from the table below:

Most websites ▪▪▪ (1) ▪▪▪ as a simple homepage accessible through the original URL. The homepage is, in essence, a portal to the ▪▪▪ (2) ▪▪▪ of the information or ▪▪▪ (3) ▪▪▪ contained within the website. The homepage and all that it contains is linked to other ▪▪▪ (4) ▪▪▪ and often other websites though ▪▪▪ (5) ▪▪▪ contained within tabs or text. All of the linked pages within a single domain name make up the entire website.

Website ▪▪▪ (6) ▪▪▪ can vary considerably. While the Internet might have once been the domain of ▪▪▪ (7) ▪▪▪ interests, it is now available to all manners of users. Family websites with vacation ▪▪▪ (8) ▪▪▪ are hosted by the same server companies as major commercial ▪▪▪ (9) ▪▪▪ . This says nothing of the many service organisations, blogs ▪▪▪ (10) ▪▪▪ sites and news organisations comprising pages of the World Wide Web.

Exercise 3   Decide which answer (A, B, C, D) best fits each gap:

HTTP cookies

Sometimes known as web cookies or just cookies, are parcels of the ▪▪▪ (1) ▪▪▪ sent by a server to a web browser and then sent back unchanged by the browser each time it accesses that server. HTTP cookies are used for authenticating, tracking, and maintaining ▪▪▪ (2) ▪▪▪  information about users.

Cookies have been of concern for Internet privacy, since they can be used for the ▪▪▪ (3) ▪▪▪  of the browsing behavior. As a result, they have been the ▪▪▪ (4) ▪▪▪ to legislation in various countries such as the United States and in the European Union. Cookies have also been criticised because the identification of users they provide is not always ▪▪▪ (5) ▪▪▪ . Moreover, they could potentially be used for network attacks. Some alternatives to cookies exist, but each has its own drawbacks.

Cookies are also the subject to a number of misconceptions, mostly ▪▪▪ (6) ▪▪▪ on the erroneous notion that they are computer programs. In fact, cookies are simple pieces of data unable to ▪▪▪ (7) ▪▪▪ any operation by themselves. In particular, they are neither spyware nor viruses, despite the detection of cookies from certain sites by many anti-spyware products.

Exercise 4   Match the words in Column A to the expressions in Column B

Have you been enriching your vocabulary? Try to look  through Basic English  once more and find out how many words from this basic dictionary you know.

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