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#Questão 479663 - Língua Inglesa, Vocabulário, Banca não informada, 0000, Não Classificadas,

Read the text below in order to answer questions 17 to 20.

Software

A substantial proportion of information can be digitized. It seems likely that soon, for example, any type of information that can be perceived, i.e. seen, heard, felt, smelt or tasted, will be reducible to a collection of bits. Once in digital form, the information in question can be stored, processed and displayed by a computer. Furthermore, it can readily and rapidly be transmitted from one computer to any other computer regardless of distance, political frontiers, and physical obstacles. From a digital point of view, there is absolutely no distinction between text, sounds, graphics, photographs, music, animations, videos and…software. To include software in our list, however, may seem rather odd. Why this is so? Computer programs are, after all, only digitized information like the other examples. However, there is one vital difference between software and the rest. While text, sounds, graphics, as well as the other examples given above, are generally passive in nature, software, by contrast, is essentially active. It is information with attitude! As Hart reminds us, "Computer programs are not only texts: they also behave". Software is both form and substance, both symbolic and functional, it both "is" and "does". For this reason, software is conceptually very challenging.

"Computer programs are not only texts: they also behave". In other words, they

#Questão 479677 - Língua Inglesa, Vocabulário, Banca não informada, 0000, Não Classificadas,

"The delivery of those computer parts has been put off for another week."

In the passage, PUT OFF means approximately:

#Questão 479679 - Língua Inglesa, Vocabulário, Banca não informada, 0000, Não Classificadas,

"Unless you have a password, you cannot have access to this particular site."

In the passage, UNLESS YOU HAVE A PASSWORD means approximately:

#Questão 479681 - Língua Inglesa, Vocabulário, Banca não informada, 0000, Não Classificadas,

The "new wave of online technology" part is debatable, but RingMessenger is definitely the leading edge of the convergence/synergy movement that is sweeping the major media companies. (Boston Globe, Jan. 2002)

In the passage, the word DEBATABLE means approximately:

#Questão 479683 - Língua Inglesa, Vocabulário, Banca não informada, 0000, Não Classificadas,

The word sleek in "…high-capacity disks housed in sleek enclosures…" (lines 5-6) means that their enclosures are:

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