Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e

Tecnologia do Norte de Minas Gerais

Campus Arinos
Rodovia MG - 202 km 407, Zona Rural - Arinos/
Minas Gerais
CEP: 38680-000

Name:
Teacher: Thaís Rios De Aguiar
Subject: Inglês Instrumental

Let’s do a review! Read the text below and answer the questions.

Text A: SOFTWARE (Computer), computer program; instructions that cause the

hardware (machine) to do work. Software can be divided into a number of categories
based on the types of work done by programs. The two primary software categories are
operating system which control the workings of the computer, and application software
which addresses the multitude of tasks for which people use computers. Operating
System includes programming languages and utility programs. Application Software
includes software that executes accounting, word processing, data management,
communications and graphics. Two additional categories are network software which
enable groups of computers to communicate and language software which provide
programmers the tools they need to write programs.
Excerpted from “Microsoft Encarta 96 Encyclopedia 1993-1995 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Text B: Software piracy is the unauthorized and illegal duplication of copyrighted

computer software. The most common forms include copying for personal use, for use
among employees of a company, and for resale. The latter includes manufacturing of
counterfeit packages that pretend to be originals. Piracy is the most widespread
computer crime. The Software Publishers Association (SPA), the principal trade group
of the personal computing software industry, estimated that in 1994 the industry lost
$8.08 billion worldwide due to illegal copying of operating systems, education,
entertainment, or personal productivity software.
Excerpted from The 1996 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. 1995 Grolier Incorporated. All rights reserved.
 QUESTIONS

1. De acordo com o texto A, conceitue “software”.

2. Circule os artigos definidos e indefinidos presentes no texto A.

3. Quais foram todos os tipos de pirataria mencionados no texto B?
4. De acordo com o texto B, a pirataria é considerada um crime? Retire do texto a
sentença que afirma ou nega isso?
5. O que é a SPA? O que esta sigla significa?
6. Observe a palavra grifada: “The latter includes the manufacturing of counterfeit
packages that pretend to be originals.” Ela é um cognato ou um falso-cognato?
Qual o seu real significado?