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Answer — Exercise 2

3f - Across the Curriculum·Spark 4 - Student's Book

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.