English
for Information Technology
Dealing
with How Internet Infrastructure Works
(Original
text at http://computer.howstuffworks.com/internet-infrastructure.htm/printable
)
1.
VOCABULARY EXERCISE
Match
the elements in the two lists:
1. network a.
order
2. however b.
surprising
3. hierarchy c. big
4. provider d.
supplier
5.
dedicated e. get to
6. amazing f.
special
7. major g.
run
8. flow h.
important
9. arrive i.
web
10. crucial j.
nevertheless
2.
MANIPULATING VERBS (in the Protocol of the Internet section)
Fill in
the blanks with the right verbs from the box:
have represents was
call use contains
a. The
machines ....................... unique identifying numbers.
b. The
computers ............................binary numbers.
c. We
....................... the four numbers in an IP address octets.
d. The Net
section always ............................ the first octet.
e. The
system with typical IP addresses...........................fine when the
computers were few.
f. www.howstuffworks.com
.......................... HowStuffWorks.com’s IP address.
3.
UNDERSTANDING EXPRESSIONS IN ENGLISH
Use the
underlined expressions in a new sentence:
a. We use
the Internet’s DNS servers to translate the human-readable domain name into
the machine-readable IP address.
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b. The left-most
word, like www, is the host name.
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c. A given
domain name can contain millions of host names as long as they are all
unique.
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d. Once
it has made a request to a root DNS server for any .COM domain, it knows the IP
address for a DNS server handling the .COM domain.
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e. All the
machines on the Internet are either servers or clients.
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4.
TRANSLATION OF PHRASES
Give a
Spanish version of the following phrases in the text:
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5. A
READING COMPREHENSION EXERCISE
Answer
the following questions on the text:
a. Who owns
the Internet?
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b. Which
are the elementary parts of the Internet?
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c. What are
backbones?
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d. What is
an IP address?
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e. Give
some examples of top-level domain names.
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