Pro One: Power Typing/Pro One: Power Typing.iso/PROGFILE.SET/P_TYPE2.TX1

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Skillful typing requires plenty of practices.
Repeated exercises can improve your typing skill.
Can you promise to type this memo by tomorrow?
Sometimes even the best typists make mistakes!
Touch typing means typing without looking down
Many potential employers would love to see you,
if you could type 50 WPM. Using a PC
and a good typing program, you can reach this
goal within 10 weeks, assuming that you spend
about 30 minutes in practicing every day.
Words are sharper than the serpent's tooth.
Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Vocabulary is the best single indication of IQ.
*** Word Roots and Word Power ***
About 95% of English words are derived directly
or indirectly from Latin and Greek, which are
root-based languages that used word roots to
represent pictures 5,000 years ago. Just as a
picture is worth a thousand words, studying words
by referring to their word roots offers a great
advantage.
Linguistic studies have shown that a person can
significantly improve his verbal skills by master-
ing about 200 word roots. Unfortunately, most
dictionaries list word origins in the form of
Latin or Greek words, which are obscure to most
readers, rather than the actual word roots.
PC Dictionary uses about 650 word roots and 150
prefixes. Concise definitions, sense-development,
and examples of words are presented in each entry.
Individual word root definitions are also provided
where appropriate. Great effort has been made to
bridge the meanings of the root and the word. This
enables the user to harness the power of word
roots without any knowledge of Latin or Greek.
*** The Importance of Word Power ***
Word power plays an important role in many
aspects of your life. It is essential that you
enhance your word power.
Almost all colleges and universities require
students to take a verbal test as partial
requirement for admission. When a student graduates
from a college and applies for admission to a
graduate school, he needs to take another verbal
test.
A good computerized dictionary can help prepare
for these tests, if it has the capability to print
out the selected group of words with definitions.
This typing program is for IBM PC and compatibles.
You should evaluate your areas of weaknesses.
The system provides WAF (Win-A-Fortune) prizes.
The WAF prizes range from $200 to $1,000.
This program is compatible with Windows and DOS.
Here are a few tips on good typing habits:
Place your thumbs slightly above the space bar.
Use your right thumb to press the space bar.
Use your right little finger to press 'Enter'.
Always return your finger to the typing position.
Capitals:  To type a capital letter controlled by
a finger of the right hand, as H,  depress the
left shift with the left fourth (little) finger
without moving the other fingers from typing
position. Hold the shift key down until the key
for the capital has been depressed; then release
the shift key and returned the finger to typing
position quickly. Use similar technique to depress
the right shift for a capital letter controlled by
a left finger, as G.
Your fingers should always return to the home keys
after pressing a key.
Anything that can go wrong will likely go wrong.
Bill gets six boxes of biscuits and mixed nuts.
Sam catches five big buckets of black bumblebees.
Ben gets five big buckets of bugs with blue blood.
Betty has been blowing five big blue bubbles.
Sixty slippery seals are sleeping silently ashore.
How many cans can a clever canner can in one day?
A clever canner can can ten cans in a minute.
Sam ate six big sizzling pizzas in the Pizza Plaza.
The symbol at the end means press Enter.
I learned how to type from a typing program.
My computer is a patient, responsive teacher.
My PC is always ready to work whenever I am.
Here is a new electronic dictionary for my PC.
A disk drive is a storage device for a computer.
This program is easy and interesting to use.
I like that popular data-base management system.
Sister Sue sewed sixty-six shirts for soldiers.
Sue sips coffee from a copper coffee cup.
Too many X-rays can be hazardous to your health.
Thrice times two plus twice times two equals ten.
The meeting lasted from two till two to 2:02.
Gravity is the force that binds the universe.
Bob buys a big bucket of big blue blueberries.
Public Support for Environmental Protection
Americans' concern about the environment has
grown and intensified since the initial outpouring
on Earth Day, 1970. Public opinion polls show that
the environment has become a core value for
virtually every sector of American society.
A recent Roper survey found that:
78 percent of American citizens think the
government needs to make "a major effort" to solve
environmental problems.
Even before the EXXON VALDES oil spill, 62
percent thought pollution posed a "very serious"
threat to American society-up sharply from the 44
percent who thought so in 1984.
In 1989-for the first time in 16 years of Roper
surveys on this issue-a majority said that
environmental issues should take precedence over
some other critical issues such as energy.
The number of people calling pollution one of
their pressing personal concerns has tripled
during the 1990's. A 1991 study by Environment
Opinion Study, Inc., found that 71 percent of
the public agrees that "improving the quality of
the environment can create jobs and help the
national economy." And the Gallup Poll reports
that 78 percent of Americans now consider
themselves environmentalists.
Public involvement in environmental activities
is also on the rise. the Gallup Poll found that
89 percent of U.S. households report voluntarily
recycling newspapers, glass, or aluminum.
According to Roper, people who say they regularly
return beer or soda bottles or cans to a store or
recycling center increased from 41 percent in
March 1989 to 48 percent March 1991.
The percentage who recycle newspapers nearly
doubled, while the percentage who sort trash to
separate garbage from recyclable material more
than doubled.
Another example of increased involvement has been
the growing participation by volunteers in beach
cleanups. Since 1987, with EPA support tens of
thousands of volunteers have spent time between
early September and mid-October on National Beach
Cleanups coordinated by the Center for Marine
Conservation and COASTWEEKS. In 1991, more than
125,000 volunteers collected nearly three million
pounds of trash along 4,000 miles of U.S. coast.
Information submitted by the volunteers on the
kinds of trash they found was used to encourage
U.S. ratification of an international ban on
dumping plastics at sea.
Words are sharper than the serpent's tooth.
Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Vocabulary is the best single indication of IQ.
About 95% of English words are derived directly
or indirectly from Latin and Greek, which are
root-based languages that used word roots to
represent pictures 5,000 years ago. Just as a
picture is worth a thousand words, studying words
by referring to their word roots offers a great
advantage.
Linguistic studies have shown that a person can
significantly improve his verbal skills by master-
ing about 200 word roots. Unfortunately, most
dictionaries list word origins in the form of
Latin or Greek words, which are obscure to most
readers, rather than the actual word roots.
PC Dictionary uses about 650 word roots and 150
prefixes. Concise definitions, sense-development,
and examples of words are presented in each entry.
Individual word root definitions are also provided
where appropriate. Great effort has been made to
bridge the meanings of the root and the word. This
enables the user to harness the power of word
roots without any knowledge of Latin or Greek.
Word power plays an important role in  many
aspects of your life.  It is essential that you
enhance your word power.
Almost all colleges and universities require
students to take a verbal test as partial requirement
for admission.  When a student graduates from a
college and applies for admission to a graduate
school, he needs to take another verbal test.
A good computerized dictionary can help prepare
for these tests, if it has the capability to print
out the selected group of words with definitions.
Air pollution is a mist demeanor.
All art is but imitation of nature.
All cats are gray in the dark. - Benj. Franklin
All great discoveries are made by accident.
All serious daring starts from within.
Always be sincere, even when you don't mean it.
An Irish bull is always pregnant.
A tyrant is worse than a tiger. - Confucius
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
It takes two to make a bargain. - English proverb
A journey of a thousand miles must
start with the first step. - Chinese proverb
Bare words are no good bargain. - John Clarke
Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.
Be cheerful while you are alive.
Better to kill time than have it kill you.
Business will be either better or worse.
Sooner or later your hard drive will fail.
Don't count your files before they are backed up.
Don't judge a software by it's price.
California is a fine place to live --
if you happen to be an orange.
Committees do harm merely by existing.
If you don't want to do anything, form a committee.
A democratic government is of, for, and by the rich.
Duty is what one expects from others.
To kill a cock, why use an ok-knife? - Confucius
Even a poor tailor is entitled to some happiness!
Even a small star shines in the darkness.
Even the boldest zebra fears the hungry lion.
Every time I lose weight, it finds me again!
Experience is an accumulation of mistakes.
Freedom of the press belongs to those that own one.
Genius is one percent inspiration and
ninety-nine percent perspiration. - Thomas Edison
Hawaii is as American as apple poi.
How can you work when the system's so crowded?
How do I love thee?  My accumulator overflows.
How many priests are needed for a Boston Mass?
How many weeks are there in a light year?
He who knows does not speak.
He who speaks does not know. - Lao Tzu
I cried because I had no shoes,
until I met a man who had no foot.
I do not fear computers.. I fear the lack of them.
I don't even know what street Canada is on.
I don't meet competition, I crush it.
I don't mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
If no one uses it, there's a reason.
If I don't get enough audience, I'll buy them.
Ignorance transcends architecture.
Knowledge without common sense is folly.
Life is like a floating cloud.
Memory serves wise commanders.
Midwest farmers are just plain folks.
Misfortune: The kind of fortune that never misses.
The love of money is the root of all evil.