Complete the sentences

4. Answer the questions to the text:

1) What is a computer system built from? 2) What pieces does the hardware include? 3) What use the rest of the system to perform the desired task? 4) What manages and controls the hardware on one side and manages the applications on the other? 5) What does a computer package include? 6) Why is the operating system necessary? 7) What need to be initialized? 8) When can you execute an application? 8) What is called a process? 9) What is referred to multitasking? 10) When does the OS manage the termination? 11) What makes requests to the operating system and why? Does the operating system respond to the requests? And what is the next step which the OS perform? 12) What is referred to resources allocation? 13) Why is it important to assess the OS used on a particular model before initial commitment? 14) Why should operating systems be evaluated? 15) What is multiprogramming? 16) Where is the OS stored?

5. Find as quickly as possible and read out the sentences containing the following important information:

• purchasing a computer system and package;
• executing application;

*6. Try to tell the gist of the text.