Setting Up a Home Computer

Task 1: Setting Up a Home Computer

1. Choose the best answer (a, b or c) to complete each of the following statements.
(1) The speaker is ____________.

a. setting up a home computer b. telling people the names and the functions of the parts in a home computer system c. attending a computer science class
(2) The book of instructions is called ___________. a. instruction manual b. instruction menu c. instruction review
(3) The monitor _____________. a. is a television set b. is used to store information c. shows on the screen the information that has been typed in
(4) ____________ are mentioned as other parts of a home computer. a. A keyboard, two floppy discs and the disc drive b. A keyboard, typewriter and a floppy disc c. Two floppy discs, a disc drive and a typewriter

2. True or False Questions.
(1)
The book of instructions tells you how to set up your system and then how to use it.
(2)
Once you type the information on the screen, you can change it no longer.
(3)
The monitor can print on paper the information on the screen.
(4)
If you want to use a computer properly, you'll have to be able to type.
(5)
The disc drive is quite complicated because it is the part of the system that operates the floppy discs.
(6)
The second floppy disc is where you type in your information and where the programme works on this information.