7. Find and underline other examples of participles in the text.

8. Underline the correct item.

1. The new program was exciting / excited.

2. What happens to your discarded / discarding old computer?

3. Bytes and bits are the starting / started point of the computer world.

4. Americans own billions of electronic products, including / included 200 million computers.

5. E-waste also includes cell phones, DVD players, video cameras and answering / answered machines.

6. Is what we're recycling / recycled actually getting recycled / recycling?

7. The "ray" is a stream of electrons generated / generating by an electron gun that naturally pour off a heated /heating cathode into the vacuum.

8. Random access memory is the most well-known form of computer memory, because it determines how quickly and efficiently your computer can perform your requested / requesting tasks.

9. There are several types of computer memory that are arranged based / basing on both technical and financial concerns.

10. There are several types of computer memory that are arranged based / basing on both technical and financial concerns.

9. Find the mistakes and correct the sentence.

1. By reversed the direction of the current, the drive magnetizes particles in the metallic coating on a disk so the particles' north and south poles are oriented to create combinations represented a 0 ar a 1 bit.

2. After subtracted the overhead for packet packaging, the basic PCI-Express slot has a top bandwidth of 250 megabytes a second.

3. A lowercase "g" and "q" can both contain closing loops whose distinctions are too subtle far a computer to recognize .

4. It also performs the same CRC operation that was performed on the packet before its journey and compares its result to the earlier one bundling into the packet.

5. What's really happening is actually digital -- representing by discrete, separate, and different numerical values.

10. Translate the following sentences into Russian.

1. After an image processor in the camera massages the visual data passed on by the sensor, the processor converts the image to a system of numerical values that represent different colors and hues.

2. Some OCR programs also display a magnified bitmap onscreen and ask you to press the key of the character needed to substitute for the placeholder character.

3. A capital "A" is 65. A capital "B" is 66. A lowercase"b" is98.

4. Their ability to move data is indicated by the multiplier factor in their designations.

5. In machine language, the hexadecimal code 40 increases by one the value contained in the register named AX.

11. Translate the following sentences into English.

    1. Лейбниц описал современную двоичную систему счисления и в 1679 году он представил модель своей бинарной арифметики.

    2. Коды представляют символы, знаки препинания и движения принтера такие как табуляции, возврат каретки,перевод строки и прогон страницы являющийся управляющим символом, используемым при печати на принтере для перехода к новой странице.

    3. Верхний и нижний регистры имеют разныйнабор ASCII-символов.

    4. CD диск вмещает 650 мегабайтов данных.

    5. Формы и цвета, несомненно, являются такой же информацией, как и слова.

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