Test 2

1. The Finger-Trace Recognition system _________ to make this calculator easier to use than push-button machines of its type.

A. designed C. is designed

B. are designed D. was designing

2. This program _________ to develop practical computer networking knowledge and skills.

A. have been designed C. is designed

B. are designed D. was designing

3. The hardware elements ___ probably _______ sufficiently with respect to storage capacity, communications, improved use of storage media, associative memories, etc.

A. are developed C. is developing

B. will develop D. was developed

4. They ___ usually _______ as procedure-oriented or problem-oriented languages.

A. is classified C. are classifying

B. are classified D. classified

5. However, with the increasing use of terminals, it _________ that interactive programming languages __________ further.

A. is expected, will develop C. are expected, will be developed

B. has been expecting, will develop D. is expecting, would develop

6. They _______ in medicine, experimental chemistry, pharmacology, geology and archeology.

A. were using C. are used

B. are using D. has been using

7. Expertise systems ____ in automated designs and research, in economics and history – in all cases where the specialists have to grapple with great masses of data which are not subject to any formalization.

A. are being introduced C. was being introduced

B. is being introduced D. are introducing

8. This input ____ to the computer forming a kind of crystal semantic lattice whose joints ______ blank.

A. is leading, remains C. is lead, remain

B. leads, remain D. are leading, remain

9. In case some frame cells _____ for other conceptions, the elevation of a situation and the corresponding of the system ______ essentially.

A. is substituted, change C. are substituted, change

B. had been substituted, changes D. is substituting, changes

10. The method of frames, for one thing, ______in systems of automated translation.

A. is employed C. are employed

B. is employing D. employed

Test 3

1. Every category of texts ________ to be marked for an individual frame structure despite the fact that all of them ________ up of similar “bricks”, i.e. characters, figures and punctuation marks.

A. was found, is made C. was found, are made

B. were found, are made D. is found, is made

2. Moreover, every category ______ for a rhythm of its own, i.e. wavy semantic process in which certain dominant frequencies _____________.

A. noted, can be observed C. is noted, can be observing

B. is noted, can be observed D. is noting, can be observed

3. Thus a new approach ___________ to automated translation from one natural (human) language to another.

A. is discovered C. are discovered

B. is discovering D. have been discovering

4. Today new scientific and engineering problems ______with the help of obsolete technique.

A. cannot solved C. cannot be solving

B. cannot be solved D. will not solve

5. A powerful stimulus of further advancement ___ the constantly growing intellectual potential of our supercomputers and robotic complexes of the fifth generation.

A. is C. were

B. are D. be

6. At that time different modes of translation ________, that is, human translators against versions of MT.

A. was compared C. were comparing

B. is compared D. were compared

7. The translations _______ from an English paper containing 1685 words.

A. were prepared C. prepared

B. were preparing D. are preparing

8. Two human translations by professional linguists (working independently) ________ ____ in the sixties.

A. were also made C. are also making

B. was also made D. have been making

9. Two versions of the translation by MT (the seventies) ____________, one being unedited (that is, corrected and revised by a bilingual editor).

A. were producing C. is produced

B. have been producing D. were produced

10. An additional human translation ________ in the second case.

A. had been made C. was making

B. was made D. made