The first and most important storage device

1. The hard disk inside your computer is the biggest and most important storage device. It is like a filling cabinet¹, but instead of paper cards, it saves everything electronically.

2. It can hold all the software you have on your computer and all your files.

3. A hard disk normally contains a few disks which are stacked on top each other. There are five or more in many computers.

4. The drive motor spins the disks very quickly. It runs all the time while your computer is in use.

5. There is a gap, a space between disks. The computer needs gaps, so that read/write heads can move across the disks and reach all the parts of disks very quickly. The head motor controls the read/write heads.

6. The space between the head and the disk surface is tiny. Even smoke from cigarette can cause a crash. A crash is what happens when the head touches the surface of the disk. To keep out dust and smoke, the drive disk is inside a sealed case.

Note: 1 – каталожный ящик.

Task 8

Прочитайте текст и найдите в нем английские эквиваленты следующим русским словам и словосочетаниям.

Read the text and find the equivalents to the following Russian words and expressions.

Зазор между дисками, герметично закрытый, устройство хранения, поверхность диска, двигаться и считывать, жесткий диск, двигатель, сохранять в электронном виде, быстро вращать, между дисками, вместо бумажных карточек.

Task 9

Answer the questions. Дайте ответы на вопросы по тексту.

1. What is the function of the hard disk?

2. Are a few disks that make a hard disk drive stacked on top of each other/

3. Why is there a gap between the disks?

4. Which element of the hard disk controls the read/write heads?

5. What protects hard disk from smoke and dust?

Task 10

В каком параграфе (укажите номер параграфа) текста “The first and most important storage device” говорится о:

Which paragraph of the text “The first and most important storage device” tells about:

1. The structure of the hard disk drive;

2. What allows read/write heads move across the disks;

3. The element that protects the hard disk drive;

4. The function of the drive motor?

Variant III

Task 1

Употребите глагол to be в нужной форме (am, is, are, was, were, will/shall be) и переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. First year students …… in the conference hall.

2. In four years these undergraduates …… Bachelors of Sciences

3. A Bachelor of Science … a graduate of higher educational institution who studied four years and passed the final exams.

4. About sixty years ago there …… only two faculties at our Academy, they …… Agronomy and Agro chemistry faculties.

5. Our lecturer … on business trip this week, she …… back next Monday.

6. Last term (=semester) we …… very busy; we had examinations in two new special subjects.

7. Life … short, art … is long.

Task 2

Поставьте глагол to have в нужную временную форму (Present, Past , Future) и переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. We usually …… two or three lectures and one or two practicals every day.

2. … you … Philosophy and History of Russia last year?

3. Next term all the students ……practical classes in laboratories.

4. …we …… an opportunity to test our ideas next year?

5. Twenty-five years ago the Academy …… a computer center (в отрицательной форме).

6. Our Academy library… many helpful scientific journals on different branches of agriculture.

7. Almost all extra-mural students … full-time jobs in the fields of their future profession.

Task 3

Вставьте нужный предлог и переведите предложения.

1. This scientific journal … ecology has got many interesting articles.

2. The examinations will begin …… two weeks; we don’t have much time left.

3. … summer students have two-months holidays, but many of them work.

4. The progress …… this group is very good.

5. Skilled specialists … Information Technologies are always in great demand.

6. I need some additional information …… the latest developments in hardware architecture.

7. …… the end …… our studies we are to write a diploma paper.

Task 4

Раскройте скобки и поставьте глагол в соответствующее время группы времен Simple. Переведите предложения.

1. Capacity of a computer (depend) on how much memory there is.

2. At industrial enterprises computers (control) technological processes.

3. Next year I (upgrade) my PC; then I (use) it for high-quality graphics and animation.

4. Last term all of us (visit) companies and state organizations and (study) computers application in business and industry.

Task 5

Вставьте походящие по смыслу модальные глаголы (can, could, must, may, might) и переведите предложения. Помните, что у модальных глаголов есть заменители (have to, has to , had to , am/is/are to , was/were to), которые придется употребить в некоторых временах.

1. You ….. analyze these facts before starting to work on the project..

2. We …… make a final decision without additional data (модальный глагол в отрицательной форме).

3. Extra-mural students … to study from 8.30 am to 7 pm every day without exception because their term of studies in the Academy is only one month long.

4. They don’t understand you. You … present your idea more clearly.

5. In four years you …… to take a post graduate course.

6. …. I borrow this text-book in the Academy library?

7. You … find our technician in office 4 on the ground floor. He … be there now.

Task 6

Заполните таблицу отсутствующими (в сравнительной или превосходной степенях) формами прилагательных и переведите их.

Fill in the blanks with absent comparative and superlative degrees of adjectives or participles and translate them.