AI Tutor - Lucy
Quiz playing is a wonderful way to increase your knowledge of English as a Second Language. Remember that all of our ESL quizzes have titles that are both friendly and technical at the same time… In the case of this quiz you might like to tell your friends about the “Get Connected Quiz” but no doubt your teachers will want to talk about “Computer Words and Terms”. If you hear a technical term and you want to find a quiz about the subject then just look through the list of quiz titles until you find what you need.
If you're learning English, we can assume you are keen to communicate with other people and in order to do that you will need to make yourself familiar with the words and terms used in the world of computing. In these days of so much IT there are many ways to 'get connected' but how good is your English for talking about computers?
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Answer 3 is the most accurate.
It is still clearest to write 'e-mails' with a hyphen, because (even if the context is obvious) the word 'Email' is the noun for 'enamel' in a number of other languages. (Enamel is a very hard substance that forms the outermost layer of your teeth, and it is used in hardening household things such as sinks, bathtubs and toilets, and also for heavy cooking pots etc.) |
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'Sell-phone' (Answer 1) may be what the word sounds like, but it is nothing to do with 'selling' or business. Most people seem to spend more of their time using the phones for social purposes, than for work!
The 'cell' idea is because each transmitter only covers a limited area, and if you look at these overall on a map or diagram, the areas look like 'cells' in biology. |
As you can see, once you start stripping letters out of words (Answers 1-3) it can become hard to see what the message means!
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Apparently there were no powerful computers at the plant: everything was controlled by hand. (And human beings can, and do, make mistakes sometimes!)
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Rows (pronounced like 'rose') run across the page, like rows of people sitting in a cinema; columns run up and down, like the ~ very vertical ~ Nelson's column on Trafalgar Square in London.
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You can make a good clear document using different sizes (12pt, etc) and weights (bold, light etc.) of the same font, or maybe two. If you mix in lots of quite different styles of type, the result will look busy but also disorganised.
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These are programs that your machine 'applies' in order to perform certain tasks.
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The top version made the best sense.
The answer, of course, is The Human Brain. |
Only Answer 1 is both full and clear.
We hope this will give you 'pause for thought' when playing language quizzes on your own computer! |
We believe that the use of 'mouse' and 'window' (as computer terms) is already quite normal in many other languages.