22. Ответьте на вопросы:

1. To meet the needs of today’s diverse group of computer users, software developers now focus on the computer-user interface. Describe how today’s input and output devices have changed to facilitate today’s easier to use software designs.

2. Describe the three main types of software used today.

3. Name four common high-level programming languages.

4. Today, programming methods are undergoing change. Describe the differences in programming approaches of new fourth-generation languages, fifth-generation languages and object-oriented programming methods .

5. Applications software represents the great variety of computer programs in use today. Describe the difference between horizontal applications and vertical applications. Name four examples of each type.

6. Describe the differences between machine languages, assembly languages, and high-level languages.

7. Describe program documentation and user documentation, and describe the differences between them.

LESSON 4

Согласование времен

Дополнение, дополнительные придаточные предложения

Приставки

Текст А Computers and society

Текст B Training for computer professionals

Текст С Computer operator positions

PRE-TEXT EXERCISES

Согласование времен

	he will live in Moscow		he would live here (будет жить)
He says that	he lives in Moscow	He said that	he lived here (живет)
	he lived in Moscow		he had lived here (жил)

1. Переведите предложения на русский язык, учитывая правило согласования времен:

1.He knew that I never missed the seminars. 2. We thought that we should be able to see our old friends. 3. I knew that you were very tired. 4. I thought that the meeting took place that day. 5. I hoped that you would meet him. 6. She was sure that the lecture was going on. 7. Students were informed that they would have industrial training in the third year. 8. He said that he had already carried out his research work. 9. The students were told at the lecture that the first programmer Augusta Ada Byron was a daughter of George Byron. 10. He said he would not go to the University tomorrow. 11. The newspapers reported that a Russian Proton-M rocket carrying the US DIRECTV 8 telecommunications satellite was launched from Russia’s Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan at 9:59 p.m. Moscow time on Sunday.

2. Раскройте скобки, поставив глаголы в нужную форму согласно правилу согласования времен:

1. The engineer was told that he (may) test the device in the afternoon. 2. It was known that the head of our laboratory (to be) a graduate of the RSVPU. 3. They thought that she (to graduate) from a technical institute. 4. When I came they (to tell) me that he (to leave) half an hour before. 5. The chief engineer believed that we (to work) at the problem for a month the following year. 6. We were told that it (to be) cold on the following weekend. 7. He did it better than I (to expect). 8. He asked the students whether the ever (to see) such a book. 9. We thought that he not (to be able) to make his work in time and therefore (to offer) to help him. 10. When I came they (to tell) me that he (to leave) half an hour before.