Контрольная работа по Английскому языку на тему: "Лексика, грамматика, чтение, аудирование"

Контрольная работа

4 семестр

1 Read the sentences and match the underlined words to their definitions:

1. Our website is becoming very popular. I think we need to move it to a dedicated server.

2. We have a small website. I think a shared server is good enough for our purposes.

3. Our plan has no bandwidth limitations. You can download and upload as much data as you like.

4. The hosting company offers 99% uptime.

5. The hosting plan offers free daily backups.

 6. I think we need to change hosting our company. There’s been too much downtime lately.

a. a computer used for hosting multiple websites

b. a single computer exclusively reserved for hosting a website

c. copies of data in case the original is lost or damaged

d. data transfer capacity

e. the time during which a server is in operation

f. the time during which a server is not in operation
 

2 Complete the email below putting the following verbs in the correct form. Bookmark      browse        click           download        go

scroll               search              sign up           surf       upload

While I 1 ....the net, I came across an interesting website offering free cooking recipes for lots of tasty dishes from all over the world. I love cooking so I decided to fill in the online registration form and 2 ...  for a free account.

After I ...a few pages, I found a recipe that I really wanted to try, so I decided to ...down to the bottom of the page and...on the download link in order to ...  it in pdf format. The next day, I decided to invite some of my friends for dinner, so I went on Google and ...for some more cooking websites. I ...a few interesting ones, so now I can find them again easily whenever I ...online. Anyway, the dinner party was a great success. I’ll ...  the pictures to my Facebook profile!
 

3 Read the text about social networking and complete the definitions on the next page:

Social networking

A social network is a website where people connect with ‘friends’ – people they know online and people they know in real life.

The beginnings of social networking date back to the 1980s. Small computer networks that used telephone lines allowed users to log in, share data and send private messages. However, connections were very slow and long distance calls were very expensive.

 In the 1990s the Internet started to become popular and social networking websites such as Classmates.com and the dating site Match.com were created for specific audiences.

 The modern age of social networking began in 2002, when Jonathon Abrams launched Friendster. He wanted to create a website like Match.com, but didn’t want it to be about dating. Google offered $30 million to buy Friendster, which was rejected. This turned out to be a big mistake.

In 2003, a few employees of a marketing company called Intermix Media copied the idea of Friendster and launched MySpace. MySpace focused on music and allowed users to customize their profiles. It had a much cooler image than Friendster and quickly became more popular.

Then, in October 2003, a student at Harvard University called Mark Zuckerberg hacked into the university ID database and created Facemash, a site that let students compare ID photos. He then created ‘The Facebook’, a social network that started as an exclusive site for students. In 2006, anyone with an email address could sign up. Two years later, Facebook overtook MySpace and became the world’s most popular social network.
 

1. ...: a website where people can meet in order to start a romantic relationship

2. ...: connect to a computer system by typing your name and password

3. ...: performed better than someone or something else

4....: entered a computer system without permission

5. ...: register on a website

6. ...: via the Internet

7. ... started (a new business or product)
 

4 Listen to the report about the NFTs. Match the sentences to the figures and dates mentioned in the listening.

1. The equivalent value (in dollars) of a Bored Ape NFT                   a. 10,000

2. The actual price (in dollars) that the token was sold for                 b. 300,000

3. The number of computers maintaining blockchain records            c. 3000

 4. An NFT sold by the artist "Beeple"                                                 d. 69 million

5. The number of Bored Ape images in the limited run                       e. thousands
 

5 Put true (T) or false (F) next to each statement.

1. A fault in aMicrosoft programme was the reason that hackers could attack computers with a virus.     

2. Microsoft said that it was their fault that hackers could access files on government systems. 

3. China has reported only a few cases of the virus. 

 4. Many Windows users had run security updates. 

5. The virus could only attack one computer at a time. 

6. A young tech expert managed to stop the progress of the virus for a short time when he was trying to find out where it came from.
 

Cyber-attack should be a wake-up call, says Microsoft

The cyber-attack that has affected 150 countries around the world since Friday should be "a wake-up call" for governments, Microsoft says.

It blamed governments for storing data on software that was open to attack, which was then accessed by hackers. Microsoft said the latest virus took advantage of a weakness in Microsoft Windows that was noticed by US investigators. Information about this was stolen from the NSA (National Security Agency).

Many companies and organisations worldwide became victims of the WannaCry attack, including Britain’s NHS (National Health Service), US courier service FedEx and French car maker Renault. Russia was one of the countries that was badly affected, its Central Bank and government office computers were attacked by the virus. In China, state media said more than 29,000 organisations across the country were affected, most of which were academic.

The virus takes control of users’ files and demands $300 to get back access to data. To prevent new infections, many companies had experts working on the problem over the weekend. More than 200,000 computers were affected since the attack began. By Monday, the virus was not spreading as fast, but people were still reporting cases.

On Monday morning, researchers found that only about $38,000 had been paid into the accounts linked to the attacks. The virus threatens to delete files within seven days if the ransom is not paid, and also warns that the ransom amount will double after three days. In a statement on Sunday, Microsoft president and chief legal officer Brad Smith criticised the way governments store information about security weaknesses in computer systems.

The company also said that many organisations had failed to keep their systems up-to-date, which allowed the virus to spread. Microsoft said they had released a Windows security update in March, but many users hadn’t run it. He added that if customers didn’t update their systems, there was no way for them to protect themselves against attacks.

Updating a personal computer can be very simple, but for an organisation like Britain’s NHS, which was badly affected, it is expensive, complex and takes a lot of time. The attack has also spread faster and more easily than previous ones. Once the virus infects one computer within a network, it can spread to all the computers in that network "within seconds," said Israel Levy, the CEO of the internet security firm Bufferzone.

 For example, if one of your colleagues opens an infected PDF that is attached to an email, soon everyone in that office could be under attack. Levy also said that six months ago, this problem didn’t happen as this type of virus could only attack one machine at a time.

With help from a young security technician, the attack was stopped for a short time, but a new version of the virus soon started to infect computers again. 22-year-old Marcus Hutchins, or ‘MalwareTech’, was called an "accidental hero" after he helped to slow down the progress of the virus. He bought a web address to track it, which stopped it by chance. The web security expert’s boss gave him an extra week off work because of the unexpected events.