V. Ответьте на вопрос: What is a program? контрольное задание №2 (Вариант 2) (“abt”)

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 перевод пассивных конструкций.

а) 1. American economists have calculated that the United States loses 2 billion dollars a year on researches in the sphere of computers.

2. The programmers dealing with computer programming have already completed all the tests.

б) 1. Today many types of systems software are produced on a massive scale.

2. The development of this computer language was followed by great research work.

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

1. Information sent over the Internet takes the shortest path available from one computer to another.

2. The engineer used different applications while solving the problem.

3. Most of people use the Internet only for sending and receiving e-mail messages.

4. Some parts for a modern noteboook have no corresponding part in a desktop computer.

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

1. You can use a computer for different purposes.

2. Any engineer should know how to work in Microsoft Windows.

3. People won't be able to live without computers in future.

4. The students had to learn all parts of computer system.

IV. Прочтите, перепишите и переведите. Computers

Computer is an electronic device that can receive a set of instructions called a program and the carry out them. The modern world of high technology could not be possible without computers. Different types and sizes of computers find uses throughout our society. They are used for the storage and handling of data, governmental files and so on. Computers have opened up a new era in manufacturing and they have enhanced modern communication systems.

There are two main types of computers, analog and digital, though now the term computer is often used to mean only the digital type.

Except two main types of computers, analog and digital there are eight generations of digital computers or processing units. The first generations was represented by processing unit Intel 8086, then appeared other generations. Few years ago appeared central processing units of seventh and eighth generations. They are much more powerful and can perform from 2000 to over 3000 million operations per second.

Today computers are nearly everywhere. One uses them in all forms of automatic control in industry: they can control the running of steel works, power stations and docks. The computer forms a part of many military systems including communications and fire control. Their applications include automatic piloting and automatic navigation.

Computers are known to be used in astronomy and upper atmosphere research. Weather forecasting, library information services and hospitals can benefit from computer too. Computers can even be used to design machines including other machines.