3.5 Internet terms
Choose the best words to complete the sentences.
1. "The website gets a thousand hits a week" means the website has a thousand.
a week.
a. sales
b. visits
c. search engine matches
2. The words, images and other material that make up a website are called .
a. the contents
b. the content
3. Designs and drawings in websites are usually called_.
a. web pictures b. web graphics
4. Moving pictures in websites are usually called_.
a. cartoons b. movies
5. Websites with sounds and/or video clips and/or animations have .
a. multimedia b. many-media
c. the filling
c. web illustrations
c. animations
, content.
c. mixed-media
6. A space in a website where you enter information (address, password etc.) is called a.
a. box b. strip c. field
7. A hyperlink (see 33) is often caiied just_.
a. a link
8. In real time (see 3.4) means.
b. a hyper
c. an HL
a. during working hours
b, instantly
c. in British Standard Time
9. A place with computers for public internet use is usually called an internet cafe or_.
even if they don't serve coffee.
a. web cafe b. computer cafe c. cyber cafe
10. Internet cafes offer internet__.
a. connection b. availability c. access
11. A program that adds functions to a browser (eg Shockwave) is called a_
a. plug b. plugged-in c. plug-in
12. Temporary internet files are stored in the_.
a. cash b. cache
c. cashe
13. Colours which all browsers can display without problems are called_colours.
a. browser safe b. browser acceptable c. browser easy
For reference see A & C Black Dictionary ol Computing (978 0747S 6622 9).
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Punctuation and symbols
B. Match the words with the punctuation marks and symbols.
1. full stop		a.	!
2. comma 3. exclamation mark		b.	@ •
4. question mark		d.	
5. single quotes		e.	
6. double quotes		f.	=
7. dollar sign		9-	'Hello'
8. percentage sign		h.	
9. ampersand		i.	*
10. asterisk 11. hash		1 k.	"Hello"
12. brackets 13. left bracket 14. square brackets		I.	
		m. n.	? /
15. underscore		0.	( )
16. hyphen		p.	$
17. plus sign		q-	\
18. equals sign		r.	[ 1
i o colon			% s
20. semicolon		t.	
21. "at" sign		u.	#
22. forward slash		V.	;
23. backward slash 24. arrow		w. X.	+ 1
C Look at this table, and answer true or false. Departure times
Bristol	London	Dover
8.15	10.30	12.45
14.00	16.15	18.30
17.45	19.00	21.15
1. All the cells are the same size.
2. There are four columns and three rows.
3. The text in the top bar is reversed-out.
4. The middle column has a lighter flood fill.
5. The text is centred within its cells.
6. The table gridlines are grey.
For reference see A & C Black Dictionary of Computing (978 07475 6622 9).
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