Open the brackets and put the verb into the necessary tense form (Active or Passive)

1. Often the form in which data (to store) is not the form that is most useful.

2. Information (to present) more and more frequently to management in the form of a display on a computer terminal.

3. Data capture (to be) always the bottleneck of data-processing operation.

4. The update operation (to involve) adding new data, deleting data no longer needed, or changing old data.

5. Over time, the system users and the environment (to change) information systems which must be flexible and capable of change.

6. After the company (to install) a large new computer, the computing capacity (to increase) by more than 30%.

5. Find words and phrases in the text which mean the following:

1) the act of recording information on paper or in a computer;

2) finding out where data comes from;

3) the quality of being exactly correct;

4) a machine used in stores to keep money in and to show how much customers have to pay;

5) to make something more modern;

6) to pass a message from one person or place to another.

Discussion

What are other bottlenecks of data processing operations? Present your ideas to the rest of the class.

Unit VII

EXPERT SYSTEMS. OFFICE INFORMATION SYSTEMS. EXECUTIVE SUPPORT SYSTEM

Name 10 key words related to the topic of the text below.

Read and translate the text.