2. Listen and fill in the blank.

1.   If you want to a horse or a buffalo, you can visit my vast farm.

2.     a tent is more interesting than putting up a pole.

3.    At harvest time, my father usually collects  after collecting hay.

4.    Herding the cattle, particularly  is so much fun.

5.    I am hooked on  apples and wild flowers in the summer holiday.

Fill in each of the numbered blanks in the following passage with one suitable word:

Have you ever followed the instructions for knitting something or have you read a (1)_____ of music? If you have, you have behaved in a similar way(2)____ a computer. A computer obeys a program to (3)_____ a particular task. Just(4)_____ a knitting pattern is expressed in numbers and a piece of music in lines and dots,(5)_____ a computer program is expressed in the form of programming language.(6)_____ the English language (or any other language), there are rules of grammar, and a program must be correct in every way.

There are hundreds of programming languages, which only a few are well known and widely used. The most popular language(7) _____ is used in offices and factories is called Cobol. This language is used for printing payrolls and keeping records of goods. Engineers and scientists use Fortran in order to carry out calculation. (8)_____ , neither of these two programs is very popular with people working in home computers. Basic is(9)_____ popular language for home computers,(10)______ because it is easy to learn and use.