VII. Ответьте на следующие вопросы письменно и будьте готовы к устной беседе с преподавателем о Вас, Вашей семье и работе.

1. What is your name?

2. Where are you from? / Where do you live?

3. When do you celebrate your birthday?

4. What are you? / What is your profession?

5. When did you make your professional choice?

6. What sports do you like?

7. Do you study by correspondence?

8. What do you need the university education for?

9. Is it easy for you to combine work with studies?

10. Have you got a family of your own? Describe your family.

Вариант 5

I. Перепишите следующие предложения и переведите их на русский язык. Определите по грамматическим признакам и запишите, ка­кой частью речи являются слова, оформленные окончанием -s, и какую функцию это окончание выполняет, т. е. служит ли оно:

а) показателем 3-го лица единственного числа глагола в Present Indefinite (Simple);

б) признаком множественного числа имени существительного;

в) показателем притяжательного падежа имени существительного.

1. You can use bold founts to emphasize something, to highlight important points.

2. Stallman's uncompromising stubbornness is common among elite computer programmers.

3. An operating system is a set of programs that lies between applications software and the computer.

4. Vast databases of information are currently available to the users of the Internet.

5. The hard disk stores data and software programs.

II. Перепишите предложения и подчеркните в них волнистой линией определения, выраженные именем существительным. Запишите пе­ревод предложений на русский язык.

1. An application suite consists of multiple applications bundled together.

2. Many application programs deal principally with documents.

3. A digital camera can store thousands of images on a single small memory card.

III. Перепишите предложения и подчеркните в них разные формы степеней сравнения, если они имеются. Переведите предложения и письменно поясните, какой степенью сравнения является найден­ная вами форма.

1. Assembly languages are called low-level languages because they are closer to the hardware.

2. Computers make our life easier and more pleasant.

3. The technology of packet switching splits information into pieces and they take the shortest path available on the Internet to get from one computer to another.

IV. Перепишите предложения и подчеркните в них неопределённые и отрицательные местоимения. Переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. Does anyone know who invented the WWW?

2. I share my personal information on Facebook with no one.

3. Somebody I don’t know sent me a strange message yesterday.

V. Перепишите следующие предложения, подчеркните в них все гла­голы-сказуемые. Определите видовременную форму и укажите ин­финитив этих глаголов. Переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. We measure the Random Access Memory of the computer in megabytes.

2. I’ m trying to access the Internet.

3. They have already discussed the security system in our office.

4. Will you check for updates, please?

5. Yesterday I watched this ad on the Internet.

VI. Прочтите и устно переведите весь текст. Подготовьтесь к кон­трольному чтению вслух 1, 5 абзацев. Перепишите 2, 3, 4 абзацы и за­пишите их перевод.

Brief History of Google

1. Google began in 1996 as a project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. In their research project they came up with a plan to make a search engine that ranked websites according to the number of other websites that linked to that site. Before Google, search engines had ranked sites simply by the number of times the search term appeared on a webpage, and the duo set out to make a more "aware" search engine. The domain google.com was registered on September, 14, 1997 and Google Corporation was formed a year later in September, 1998.

2. In 2004, Google launched its own free web-based email service, known as Gmail. This service was made to rival the free online mail services supplied by Yahoo and Microsoft. This new free email service shook up the very foundation of free email with its enormous 1 GB of email storage which dwarfed its rivals' ten-fold.

3. In 2004 Google launched Google Earth. Google Earth is an amazing creation that is a map of the earth based on satellite imagery. This interactive globe of the world allows you to type in a search for any place in the world and you will automatically be taken to that part of the world. The cool part is that with Google Earth you can zoom right in to street level and actually see your own street and even your house!

4. In 2006 Google was added to the Oxford English dictionary as a verb – the verb "to Google" has become so popular that Google has even been worried that their brand name might lose their copyright and patent protections, and allow other companies to be able to legally use the Google brand in their own brand.

5. Today Google has a dominant controlling share of the search market. Google is the most widely used search engine on the Internet with a 54% market share.