V. Прочтите 6-й и 7-й абзацы текста и дайте ответ письменно на следующий вопрос:

What else can computers be used for?

Вариант 3

I. Перепишите следующие предложения, подчеркните в каждом из них глагол-сказуемое и определите его видо-временную форму и залог. Переведите предложения на русский язык. В разделе (б) обратите внимание на особенности перевода пассивных конструкций.

а) 1. Automated systems have a number of advantages.

2. The scientific group will be working out the design of this new installation.

3. The revolution in science rapidly bore fruit in many fields of applied science and technology.

б) 1. This theory has been used for analyzing the experimental data.

2. After the new equipment had been tested it was installed in our laboratory.

3. Immense extension is given to our sense by electronic device.

II. Перепишите следующие предложения. Подчеркните Participle I и Participle II и установите функции каждого из них, т.е. укажите, является ли оно определением, обстоятельством или частью глагола-сказуемого; предложения переведите на русский язык.

1. The device used in our work is up-to-date.

2. When applied new equipment the scientist got better results.

3. The new devices are replacing their old equivalents.

III. Перепишите следующие предложения, подчеркните в каждом из них модальный глагол или его эквивалент; предложения переведите на русский язык.

1. Modern computers can multiply two numbers in a microsecond.

2. People of good will have to struggle for peaceful use of atomic energy.

3. Every engineer must improve his technical knowledge.

IV. Перепишите и письменно переведите на русский язык 1, 3 и 4-й абзацы текста.

Пояснения к тексту

1. tube – лампа, трубка; 2. discrete semiconductor device – дискретное полупроводниковое устройство; 3. circuit – схема цепь; 4. versatile – универсальный.

New Generations of Computers

1. Computer technology is one of the youngest and most dynamic branches of modern science and technology. The first generation of computers appeared in the 1950s and was designed on the basis of electronic vacuum tubes. But by the early 1960s a new generation of computers was developed, discrete semiconductor devices being used in it. Now there is a third generation of computers serving man, based on electronic circuits containing hundreds of transistors and other devices in one tiny package.

2. ES (Unified System) series computers developed jointly by the CMEA member-states (государства-члены СЭВ), also of the third generation, are now being used not only in the socialist world, but in the developing countries where they help in many areas of the economy, and in a number of industrialized capitalist countries.

3. Now, work is going on around the world to develop fourth and fifth generation computers based on very high-capacity integrated circuits containing tens of thousands of active electronic devices in tiny elements. Research is also being done on computers based on superconducting devices.

4. A major advance in the development of computer technology was the creation of microprocessors and microcomputers. The tiny and versatile computing devices are able to control complex operations from the control and monitoring of machine tools to playing a game of chess.

5. The principal part of the computer, its "brain", is what is called "software"- and here Soviet scientists have made a major contribution. Computer programs developed by Soviet scholars have proved to be reliable and efficient in space exploration.

6. Excellent American, British, French and Japanese computers are working alongside Soviet machines in computer centers. And it augurs well (служит хорошим предзнаменованием) that computers made in various countries "speak common languages" and serve people successfully.