Cover of the textbook Spark 4 - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 3f - Across the Curriculum for the textbook Spark 4 - Student's Book with authors Virginia Evans, Jenny Dooley from Express Publishing

Question

Read the text again and answer the questions.

  1. What is the motherboard?
  2. What does CPU stand for?
  3. Which part wakes up a computer?
  4. What does a sound card do?
  5. How many types of memory has a computer got? What does each do?

Answer

  1. The motherboard is the heart of the computer. It is the largest circuit board in a computer and all the smaller circuits are connected to it.
  2. CPU stands for Central Processing Unit.
  3. The Basic Input-Output System (BIOS).
  4. The sound card controls the audio of the computer.
  5. The computer has two main types of memory, RAM and ROM. RAm is like a short-term memory that you can access and change and ROM holds information that is permanent and you can't change it.

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