Filologia angielska - słownictwo

Hacking is illegal and you can get jailed for breaking into somebody's programs. Hackers need to be careful since they may be easily caught while modifying a program.

This company was the first to use CAD programs to design aircraft.

They were over joyed when they found a major vein of platinum ore.

They built a new water purification plant outside the city.

The drug prevents the virus from replicating itself.

Doctors say cancer is a congenital disease.

Scientists have managed to map the human genome.

A computer is a wonderful device.

A malfunction of the computer has been detected.

The extension for documents is "DOC."

She has a lot of jewelry made of pure pewter.

The army uses cordite to blow up bridges.

Scientists are trying to make replicas of certain genes.

No one knows what the repercussions of genetic engineering will be.

Heart transplants weren't feasible just fifty years ago.

Computer users browse the Web to find relevant files.

Software piracy is a threat to program writers and computer companies.

Police can now identify a murder 60 years after the fact with genetic fingerprinting.

I have downloaded this program from the Internet.

I've upgraded my computer and now it works much faster.

It is absolutely essential to update your virus program at least once a month, preferably once a week.

This program allows computer users to customise the start menu.

You can optimise your computer for reliability or speed, most users choose speed.

Trouble-shooting computers is part logic, part experience, part black art; but also a complete pain in the neck.

They can't manufacture the device till they've ironed out all the production glitches.

Because electricity has only two possible states, on or off, computers must perforce operate in binary.

As many people don't like the default appearance of Windows, many programs exist to customise the way it looks and works.

I couldn't draw my money because the bank's computer system had crashed.

A computer can retrieve stored information in a matter of seconds.

Could you scroll down a few lines, please?

The power of modern spreadsheet programs to manipulate figures and calculate future projections makes them indispensable to most businesses.

The old trans-Atlantic undersea cables had a rather limited capacity until they were replaced with fibre optic cables.

A common advertising wordplay is that the advertised appliance is an appliance of science.

The most common peripherals today are printers and scanners, but digital cameras are catching up.

To read information on the internet you use a browser, to find the item you want you use a search engine; this is what is called browsing.

Surfing the net with a high-speed modem seems to be what most kids aspire to these days.

He invented some gizmo for resealing fizzy drink bottles.

There's a bug in the program that's preventing the list from being sorted.

In the past files had to be given short eight letter names, but now we have the luxury of 255 characters.

If all else fails, reboot the computer.

Floppy disks used to be the basic back-up media for home users but re-writable CD's are slowly taking over.

For many people cyberspace gives them far greater freedom than they could ever have in everyday life.

You can write e-mail messages off-line, but you must be online to send them.

The current technocratic administration is blind to the damage being done to the environment

It is essential these days to be computer literate

There is a divergence of opinion on the benefits of technology.

Freud wished that analysis would be considered an exact science on a par with medicine.

They viewed their achievements as an exemplar of progress.