Vocabulary: proverb -- Every cook praises his own broth -- cookery -- variety -- cuisine -- particular -- lunch -- porridge -- rasher -- sausage -- mushroom -- in spite of -- strictly -- cereal -- honey -- substantial -- poultry -- beef -- mutton -- veal -- ham -- boiled -- fried -- chop -- steak -- cheap -- snack -- tea-spoonful -- tin -- apricot -- pear -- pineapple -- instant coffee -- disgusting -- roast -- lamb -- gravy -- delicious -- to conclude -- Computers Computer is an electronic device that can receive a set of instructions called program and then carry out them. The modern world of high technology could not be possible without computers. Different types and sizes of computers find uses throughout our society. They are used for the storage and handling of data, secret governmental files, information about banking transactions and so on. Computers have opened up a new era in manufacturing and they have enhanced modern communication systems
important nutrients. Listen to your body. What does it feel like to be full? When you're eating, notice how your body feels and when your stomach feels comfortably full. Sometimes, people eat too much because they don't notice when they need to stop eating. Eating too much can make you feel uncomfortable and, over a period of time, can lead to unhealthy weight gain. Limit screen time. Limit screen time. What's screen time? It's the amount of time you spend watching TV or DVDs, playing video games (console systems or handheld games), and using the computer. The more time you spend on these sitting-down activities, the less time available for active stuff, like basketball, bike riding, and swimming. Try to spend no more than 2 hours a day on screen time, not counting computer use related to school. Be active Figure out which activities you like best. Not everyone loves baseball or soccer. Maybe your passion is karate, or kickball, or dancing. Find ways to be active every day
On the one hand, sports are really good for your health. Sporting keeps you fit and gives you dicipline. People who do not sport regularly have more illnesses and tend to be overweight. Also, doing sports even extends life and help reduce the feelings of sadness and depression. In addition to that, sporting keeps children busy. Nowadays a lot of kids tend to stupid things at their spare time so when they are doing anykind of sports it keeps them out of trouble and even away from TV and video games, that have really bad influence on their eyes, student achievement and may make them violent. Sport boosts their self confident, motivation and responsibility as well. If childern are doing team games it builds teamwork skills and teaches how to trust and rely on others. On the other hand, you can not be obsessed with sports and strain yourself because there may be serious consequences. The biggest disadvantage of sports are injuries. Most injuries take
Dinnertime is often pressed by television if it is not in the kitchen. If people are deprived for various reasons of watching their favourite programmes they feel inconvenience. The best thing is to watch only selective TV programmes and not to be governed by them. Only few people today can live without television. It should be said that television continues to play an important part in the human life despite increasing influence of the Internet, video games and other high- technology sources of information. - Do you like to watch TV? - Sometimes I like to watch TV. But I do not spend much time in front of this "one-eyed monster" I watch only my favourite programmes. I like sports programmes and science fiction serials. Football is my favourite sport, so I try not to miss important games that are shown on TV. I am especially interested in the European Football Cup. I also like science fiction
Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability Steve Krug Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability Copyright © 2014 Steve Krug New Riderswww.newriders.com To report errors, please send a note [email protected] New Riders is an imprint of Peachpit, a division of Pearson Education. Editor: Elisabeth Bayle Project Editor: Nancy Davis Production Editor: Lisa Brazieal Copy Editor: Barbara Flanagan Interior Design and Composition: Romney Lange Illustrations by Mark Matcho and Mimi Heft Farnham fonts provided by The Font Bureau, Inc. (www.fontbureau.com) Notice of Rights All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. For information on getting permission for reprints and excerpts, [email protected]. Notice of Liability Th
HOMES Almost 63% of British people own their own homes. There are about 25 million homes in the UK, of which seven out of 10 are owner-occupied. Most live in terraced houses and tower blocks located mainly in town centres, semidetached houses in districts nearer to town centres, or detached houses which usually lie in expensive suburbs, closer to the countryside than the centre. Many people live in rented accommodation, including council flats and houses built and owned by the local government. Modern council housing estates may be a mixture of different buildings, providing a variety of facilities for their inhabitants, such as play areas for children, a community centre, etc. Since the 1980s, council tenants have been allowed to buy their own homes very cheap if they have lived in them for more than two years. Since the early 1990s, building new houses and flats has been very slow. But today the number of new homes b
information which is available for us to search. And all the information is gathered in Internet. Internet is everyone's door to the world and to the vast knowledge of everything. Computers have significant advantages over people in a few select areas. They can store huge amounts of information that they will never forget, they can organize and retrieve that information very quickly, and they can do very complex calculations very quickly. The newest generation of computer applications for learning uses these computer advantages to help students do much more complex problems than they otherwise could. Researchers have noticed that computers improve our critical thinking skills, student collaboration, performing real-life tasks and performing complex tasks. And furthermore, computers are becoming more and more important for our studies, since they are used writing essays, researching and for learning more about our enviroment.
have arisen, and artificial intelligence including machine learning greatly benefiting from it. Artificial intelligence requires tremendous quantities of data for it to be exact, and big data is exactly that. Some game including machine learning examples are: - AlphaGo, a software developed to play the Chinese board game Go [4]. - Stockfish, an open source chess engine [5]. - Deep Blue, an older chess-playing computer which beat Kasparov [6]. - OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research organization that aims to promote and develop friendly AI in such a way as to benefit humanity as a whole [7]. An example that mimics cognitive thinking: - CALO - Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes [8]. Other examples which show reasoning capabilities: - Microsoft Cortana, an intelligent personal assistant with a voice interface in Microsoft's various Windows 10 editions [9].
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