I. Прочитайте текст и письменно ответьте на вопросы, следующие за ним.

1. How do conventional computers attack problems? - Conventional computers attack problems one step at a time.

2. How can advanced computers complete the problem more quickly? - Advanced computers are able to do several parts of the problem at once to complete it more quickly.

3. What computational work does a processor do? – A processor does computational work such as addition, multiplication or the comparison of two numbers.

4. What is a program? - Program is a computational task divided into a sequence of steps.

5. Why does a processor operate slowly? – Because during each phase of a computation some part of the processor is idle

6. How can one improve the speed of computation? Designers are designing systems in which many processors are linked together to form parallel processors or parallel computers.

7. What is the aim of advanced computer architecture? - The aim is to have many computational steps taking place at any given time.

8. What is a major source of slowness in conventional processors? - A major source of slowness in conventional processors is access to memory.

9. What is the solution to this problem? - The solution to this problem is to design machines in which, while one operation is being executed, the next set of instructions is fetched from memory and decoded or divided into operations that can be done by various functional units.

III. Найдите русские эквиваленты следующим английским словосочетаниям:

1. conventional computers	b. традиционные компьютеры
2. advanced architecture	i. усовершенствованная архитектура
3. to perform one step at a time	g. выполнять один шаг поочередно
4. a single processor	d. единичный процессор
5. a sequence of steps	j. последовательность шагов
6. to execute a program	a. выполнять программу
7. the processor is idle	е. процессор бездействует
8. to develop approaches	f. разрабатывать подходы (методы)
9. to increase the speed	с. увеличить скорость
10. access to memory	h. доступ к памяти
11. a set of instructions	l. набор инструкций
12. to be done concurrently	k. выполнять одновременно

IV. Прочтите следующие интернациональные слова. Дайте им русские эквиваленты:

сomputer	компьютер	real	реальность
component	компонент	machine	машина
information	информация	ordinary	ординарный
operation	операция	complex	комплекс
centre	центр	modern	современный
column	колонна	automatic	автоматический
figure	фигура	multiplication	умножение
peripheral	периферия	division	деление
final	финал	arithmetical	арифметический
stop	стоп	logical	логический
display	дисплей	system	система
design	дизайн	business	бизнес