A Practical Course for Students of English By Wang Guizhen Faculty of English Language & Culture Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

English Pronunciation for Communication is a compulsory course offered to the first year English majors with an aim to help the students to improve their English pronunciation and intonation for more effective communication. The students will undergo intensive training in the pronunciation of individual phonemes in English, in the rhythmic patterns of the English language and in the patterns and functions of English intonation, so that the students will be able to communicate more effectively with good pronunciation and intonation

一、硬件描述语言（HDL） 1.VHDL:VHSIC Hardware Description Language； VHSIC : Very High Speed Integrated Circuit；

The true language of computers is a stream of 1s and 0s—bits. Everything in the computer, be it numbers or text or program, spreadsheet or database or 3-D rendering, is nothing but an array of bits. The meaning of the bits is in the “eye of the beholder”; it is determined entirely by context. Bits are not a useful medium for human consumption. Instead, we insist that what we read be formatted spatially and presented

SQL是结构化查询语言（Structured Query Language） 的缩写，其功能包括数据查询、数据操纵、数据定义 和数据控制四个部分。 SQL 语言简洁、方便实用、功能齐全，已成为目前应 用最广的关系数据库语言

Java语言的发展历史 Java语言前身是Oak语言，于1991年推出， 但仅限于Sun Microsystems公司内部使用 1995年Oak语言改名为“Java”，并正式向公 众推出。 1.2版本的Java是Java语言发展过程中一个关 键阶段，从此，Sun公司将Java更名为Java2

【定义】 UML: Unified Modeling Language,统一建模语 级 UML是对软件密集型系统中的制品进行可视化、 详述、构造和文档化的语言 制品( artifact):指软件开发过程中产生的各 程种类型的产物,如模型、代码、测试用例等

结构化查询语言（StructuredQuery Language）。这种语言的语法结构类似于英语，易学易用，书写随意。[例如前面第一章讲过的例子]

1. Historical background: (1) The Hundred Years War: The result of the war was an awakening of national consciousness in England. And the French language was gradually replaced by English native tongue. (2) The peasant uprising of 1381: It was the result of the conflict between the peasants and feudal lords

The need for a richer language In P, it is not possible to express assertions about elements of a structure. First Order Logic is a considerably richer logic than propositional logic, but yet enjoys many nice mathematical properties