The Internet and the World Wide Web

1. What is difference between the Internet and the World Wide Web? Many people use «Internet» and «World Wide Web» interchangeably. They shouldn’t, and here’s why.

2. The Internet, of course, is the maze of phone and cable lines, satellites, and network cables that interconnect computers around the world. The World Wide Web (also called WWW or simply the Web) is the name given to anything on the Internet that can be accessed using a Uniform Resource Locator, or URL. This addressing system brought the Internet to the mainstream in the 1990s, eliminating the complicated commands and prompts that user previously had to type to access information. The vast majority of the content you access with a URL are files written in a code called Hypertext Markup Language, or HTML. We know HTML files as Web pages.

3. Hypertext is a scheme of cross-referencing. Certain words, phrases, and images make up so-called links. When you select a link on a Web page or Web site (a document containing text and graphics and sometimes also other types of files), your computer is transferred to another document dealing with the same or a related subject. This site will probably also contain numerous links. Before long, you might find yourself «surfing» the Web for hours going from site to site.

4. As you may have experienced, the Web works fastest when the fewest number of people are connected to the Internet. When Net traffic is heavy, Web documents can take a long time to appear. This problem is worst with comparatively slow telephone-line modems, but it can occur even with the most expensive, high-speed Internet connections. When you experience it, you’ll know why some people refer to the Web as the «World Wide Web».

XI. Match the terms with their definitions.

1. HTML 2. The WWW 3. Web-site 4. Hypertext 5. URL

a) computer software and hardware that allows users to create, store, and view text and move between related items easily; b) a group of connected pages on the World Wide Web containing information on a particular subject; c) a standardized address of a location on the internet; d) a text description language that is used for electronic publishing; e) a vast network of linked hypertext files, stored on computers throughout the world.

XII. Read the first and second sentences from passage 2 of the text and divide them into sense groups. Define the dependency relations between them.

XIII. Find the description of hypertext operation.

XIV. Find the information about the connection between the number of users and the Internet transmission rate.

XV. Translate passage 2 into Russian.

Многофункциональные слова

Multifunctional Words

Признаки распознавания функций и значений that (this, these, those)

1 союз that+придаточное предложение (C+CК) = что The research has shown that Web user should be informed of the security measures used by the site.

2 союзное слово that+сказуемое (СК) = который A device that functions as both a transmitter and a receiver is called a transceiver.

3 слово-заместитель that/those + of/причастие (Participle II)/прилагательное = переводится существительным, которое заменяет This is new measuring equipment, its accuracy is much higher than that of the old one.

4 указательное местоимение that (this, these, those)+существительное = тот, та, то (этот, эти, те) At that time, computers were also becoming an increasingly important scientific tool.

I. Define the functions and meanings of the multifunctional word “that”. Give its features as a subordinating conjunction. Model these sentences.

1. That x is more x than that xed in our x.

2. The xs have been xing to x x that are ever xer to x.

3. Xs that have x x of xed xx are xing to x their x into xs.

4. The x has xed that x x should be xed of the x xs xed by the x.