IT Department Restructuring
technical support
DataPro Inc. is growing, and so our workload is
But our department not dealing
with this increase effectively. So am the
processing into three sections: quality
assurance, data processing and information
security The responsibilities of sach section are
Quality Assurance
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Testing hardware
Providing technical support
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Writing code
Organizing data
information Security
Encoding online data transfers
Updating security software
These changes are not simple or easy. But
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new section assignment.
Themas Jenkins,
CEO DataPro inc.
Get ready!
Vocabulary
Before you read the passage,
talk about these questions.
What is Information Technology?
2 What do Information Technology
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professionals do?
Read the statement from the
DataPro Inc. CEO. Then, mark
the following statements as
true (T) or false (F)
Match the words (1-10) with the definitions (A-J).
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data processing
information security
A putting secrat information into code
B the physical parts of a computer
C connected to the Internet
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online
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9 quality assurance
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employees new assignments
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F the act of using information
G proçrams/nstructions added to computers
H helping people usefundersitand technology
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J the act of protecting information

In Search of Good English Food
by Verona Paul and Jason Winner
1. How come it is so difficult to find English food in England?
In Greece you eat Greek food, in France French food, in Italy
Italian food, but in England, in any High Street in the Land, it is
easier to find Indian and Chinese restaurants than English ones. In
London you can eat Thai, Portuguese, Turkish, Lebanese, Japanese,
Russian, Polish, Swiss, Swedish, Spanish, and Italian — but where
are the English restaurants?
2. It is not only in restaurants that foreign dishes are replacing
traditional British food. In every supermarket, sales of pasta, pizza
and poppadoms are booming. Why has this happened? What is wrong
with the cooks of Britain that they prefer cooking pasta to potatoes?
Why do the British choose to eat lasagne instead of shepherd’s pie?
Why do they now like cooking in wine and olive oil? But perhaps it
is a good thing. After all, this is the end of the 20th century and we
can get ingredients from all over the world in just a few hours. Anyway,
wasn’t English food always disgusting and tasteless? Wasn’t it always
boiled to death and swimming in fat? The answer to these questions
is a resounding ‘No’, but to understand this, we have to go back to
before World War II.
3. The British have in fact always imported food from abroad.
From the time of the Roman invasion foreign trade was a major
influence on British cooking. English kitchens, like the English
language, absorbed ingredients from all over the world — chickens,
rabbits, apples, and tea. All of these and more were successfully
incorporated into British dishes. Another important influence on British
cooking was of course the weather. The good old British rain gives us
rich soil and green grass, and means that we are able to produce some
of the finest varieties of meat, fruit and vegetables, which don’t need
fancy sauces or complicated reci pes to disguise their taste.
4. However, World War II changed everything. Wartime women
had to forget 600 years of British cooking, learn to do without foreign

My Everyday MealsEvery person has his own idea of a perfect house.I usually have two or three meals a day on weekdays and four meals on my day off. I don't often have an opportunity to have a dinner when I'm at school. My meals are: breakfast, lunch, dinner and supper or tea.Some of my friends have a snack rather than a meal in the morning. But my breakfast is a full meal and I have it at 7 o'clock. It is usually bacon and eggs. Afterwards come sandwiches with butter and cheese or sausages, or sometimes jam. Then I drink tea or coffee.I have lunch at about 12 o'clock. It starts with fruit juice. Then I have a vegetable salad and sandwiches again or pies with tea.Dinner is at three or four o'clock. For dinner I have soup or borsch for starter, and meat or fish with a lot of vegetables for main course. For dessert I often have stewed fruit or jelly.And at last supper. It is at seven or eight. My mother usually cooks fried fish and mashed potatoes, beefsteak and omelette. And salads, of course. Then I prefer a glass of warm milk with biscuits. Sometimes before going to bed I drink orange juice or eat an apple.