Read the questions and circle the correct answer.

1. What is the raw material?

a) information; b) number; c) data

2. What is used for reference or analysis?

a) data; b) people; c) information

3. What is information?

a) storage; b) output; c) input

4. What is knowledge?

a) data; b) computer; c) information

5. What converts data into information?

a) storage; b) processing; c) output

Match the words with their synonyms.

1) to derive from; 2) particular; 3) intelligence; 4) to process; 5) data; 6) up to date; 7) to interpret

a) cleverness; b) facts or numbers; c) to understand; d) certain; e) modern, new, up to now; f) to come from; h) to deal with

Read the sentences choosing the correct word in bold type.

1. Data is processed to become useful/useless information.

2. Processing/storing is a series of operations converting input into output.

3. System model shows that data/information goes into a process.

4. Data are a collection of facts that can be processed by a person/computer.

5. We use the term data processing/data file to include the resources applied for processing of information.

6. Information is raw/meaningful material.

Give the Russian equivalents.

1) the nature of information; 2) to describe a phenomenon; 3) meaning within a specific context; 4) to convert input into output; 5) a series of actions; 6) to derive from experience; 7) communication of intelligence

Find the answers to the questions.

1. How do data differ from information?

2. Give the examples of data and information.

3. What is data processing?

4. What is input/output?

5. What is the definition of data/information?

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