HE WATCHED THE FOOTBALL MATCH

10/ He watched the football match. Then he wrote a report.

→ After _____________________________________________________.

VIII/ Read the passage below carefully, and then choose the best answer:

Background, in relation to computers, on the screen, the color on which characters are

displayed. (1) _______, a white background may be used for black characters. In a windowing

environment in which more than one program or document can be available to the user, open but

currently inactive (2) _______ are said to be in the background.

In the context of operating systems and program execution, background refers to a process, or

task, assigned a lower priority in the microprocessor's share of time to tasks other than the task running

in the (3) _______. A background process thus often performs its work, such as printing or checking for

arriving messages on an electronic mail network, invisibly unless the user requests an update or brings

the task to the foreground. (4) _______, only multitasking operating systems are able to support

background processing. However, some operating systems that do not support multitasking may be able

to perform one or more types of background tasks. For example, in the Apple Macintosh operating

system running in Single-Launch Mode (with multitasking (5) _______), the Background Printing

option can be used to print documents while the user is doing other work.

New vocabulary:

- priority (n.): sự ưu tiên

- microprocessor (n.): mạch vi xử lý

- foreground (n.): cảnh gần, cận cảnh