Упр.120 Unit 3 ГДЗ Enjoy English 11 класс
Read the jokes and in groups decide what the ending of each joke is. Then listen and check your answers.
Number One Historical Spam
Subject Line: URGENT VIRUS ALERT! Don’t Open Your City Gates for Giant Wooden Horses!
CD player
I wanted to buy a CD player, but was completely perplexed by one model’s promotional sign. So I called the sales clerk over and asked, “What does ‘hybrid pulse D/A converter’ mean?” He said, “It means that this machine will read the digital information that is encoded on CDs and convert it into an audio signal.”
“In other words,” I said, “…”
Call Centre
I used to work in technical support for a 24/7 call centre. One day I got a call from an individual who asked what hours the call centre was open. I told him, “The number you dialed is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.” He responded, “Is that Eastern or Pacific time?” Wanting to end the call quickly…
Windows?
A woman called the Canon help desk about a problem with her printer. The tech asked her if she was “running it under Windows”.
Cat Technical Support
This is an actual account by a worker at a technical support and service centre. One particular customer had an old console-type machine with a print head that would ride back and forth on a spiral shaft. They also had a big bushy cat who liked to sit on the edge of the printer next to the operator. One day we got a service call with a panicky voice that said, “Cat caught in machine, come quick!” When I arrived I saw everyone sitting around mending their various wounds and scratches. But no sight of the cat. It appears that while they were running the machine the cat was twirling his tail in his usual fashion and stuck it down into the printer at the most inopportune time and got sucked in!…
1) Historical Spam — “I guess this is a warning about the Trojan horse.”
2) CD player — “So it just turns the information on the CD into sound.”
3) Call Centre — “I meant the centre is open all day and all night.”
4) Windows? — “No, I’m not using Windows on my computer.”
5) Cat Technical Support — “The cat’s tail got caught in the printer.”
