- •Vocabulary 253
- •Information for study
- •If it keeps up, man atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
- •1. Read and translate the text.
- •2. Check up your understanding.
- •3. Retell the text briefly using the following expressions:
- •4. What's missing? You can help yourself referring to the text.
- •5. Rearrange the words and get the right sentences.
- •6. Put the letters in order to make words, then use the words to complete the sentences.
- •7. There are two words given in each item. You must explain
- •8. Give the opposites of the following words.
- •9. Give the synonyms of the following words:
- •10. What verbs frequently precede these words?
- •11. Supply the articles where necessary:
- •12. Translate into English:
- •13. Are you up to giving a right explanation?
- •Who can express the most precise meaning of the word? Are you getting on well with your English? Try to do your best!
- •14. Fairly and rather
- •1. Match the words given in the left column with their definitions in the right column, e.G. 1-21:
- •2. Invent sentences using the expressions from the list below:
- •3. Reading comprehension
- •Computer terms in use
- •If it’s beyond your reach, give Russian explanations at least.
- •Information for study
- •We live in a time when automation is ushering in a second industrial revolution.
- •1. Read and translate the text.
- •2. Are you an experienced person?
- •3. Retell the text briefly using the following words and expressions:
- •4. What’s missing? You can help yourself referring to the text.
- •5. Rearrange the words and get the right sentences.
- •6. Put the letters in order to make words, then use the words to complete the sentences.
- •11. Supply the articles where necessary:
- •12. Translate into English.
- •13. Are you up to giving a right explanation?
- •3. Vocabulary training
- •Identification of words.
- •4. Computer terms in use
- •1. Read and try to understand the given above text.
- •2. No doubt, a person who is willing to establish a new business must have certain skills, such as:
- •Phrasal verbs
- •If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.
- •If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway.
- •If everything seems to go well, you have obviously overlooked something.
- •Information for study
- •1. Read and translate the text.
- •2. Check up your understanding. Give full answers:
- •3. Retell the text briefly using the following expressions and terms:
- •4. What’s missing? If you are in doubt refer to the text.
- •5. Rearrange the words and get the right sentences:
- •6. Put the letters in order to make words, then use the words to complete the sentences:
- •12. Translate into English:
- •13. Are you up to giving a right explanation?
- •If you’re in doubt we can help you.
- •He did his best and won the prize.
- •3. Vocabulary training
- •1. Identification of words
- •2. Useful expressions
- •Invent sentences using the expressions from the left column:
- •3. Reading comprehension
- •4. Computer terms in use
- •If it is beyond your grasp give at least Russian explanation:
- •Information for study
- •3. Vocabulary training
- •Fig. 1 Basic Computer Architecture
- •Moor’s law
- •1. Information for study
- •3. Vocabulary training
- •Inflation
- •Infidelity
- •1. Information for study
- •If builders built buildings the way the programmers wrote programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
- •1. Read and translate the text.
- •2. Check up your understanding. Give full answers:
- •3. Retell the text briefly using the following terms and expressions:
- •4. What is missing? If you are in doubt refer to the text. Take it into account that in each item the first letter of the missing word is used:
- •5. Rearrange the words and get the right sentences:
- •6. Supply the preposition if one is missing. If necessary refer to the text:
- •12. Translate into English.
- •13. Are you up to giving a right explanation?
- •3. Vocabulary training
- •Identification of words
- •2. Useful expressions
- •3. Phrasal verbs
- •If necessary use the dictionary at the end of this book.
- •4. Reading comprehension
- •5. Computer terms in use
- •Read and try to understand the given above text.
- •What’s your opinion concerning software piracy? Will it exist always?
- •It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night.
- •1. Information for study
- •Information.
- •1. Read and translate the text.
- •2. Check up your understanding. Give full answers.
- •3. Retell the text briefly using the fallowing expressions and terms:
- •4. What’s missing? If you are in doubt refer to the text. Take it into account that in each item the first letter of the missed word is used.
- •5. Rearrange the words and get the right sentences.
- •6. Supply the preposition if one is missing.
- •12. Are you up to giving a right explanation?
- •3. Vocabulary training
- •Identification of words
- •Useful expressions
- •Invent sentences using the following expressions and words:
- •Reading comprehension
- •4. Each sentence contains a word that is wrong.
- •5. Fill the gaps with the appropriate word. Then refer to the text.
- •Give the explanation to the following acronyms and abbreviations (p. 223 will help you):
- •Multimedia
- •Programming languages and functions
- •Real-Time Communication
- •I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I’m incapable of taking it.
- •Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
- •It is a human zoo.
- •I’ve had three wives, six children, six grandchildren, and I still don’t understand women.
- •Vittorio Gassman
- •I prefer the company of women. I’m buzzed by the female mystique.
- •If Restaurants Function Like Microsoft
- •I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.
- •Fairly, rather
- •Vocabulary training
- •1. Match the words with their definitions:
- •3. Reading comprehension
- •Vocabulary training
- •1. Identification of words
- •3. Reading comprehension
- •4. Computer terms in use
- •Do and make
- •3. Vocabulary training
- •1. Identification of words
- •2. Reading comprehension
- •4. Computer terms in use
- •Vocabulary training
- •Verb study practice
- •Vocabulary training
- •Vocabulary training
- •Vocabulary training
- •Webster’s Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language.
- •Vocabulary
- •I. Funk, n. Lewis
- •Webster’s Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary Of the English Language
12. Translate into English:
Доверьтесь компьютерам, и они вам помогут.
Почти каждый день поступают сообщения о сбоях в компьютерных сетях, которые парализуют работу компаний.
Ваше программное обеспечение устарело.
Временами мы ощущаем нашу зависимость от компьютеров, работа которых не всегда соответствует нашим желаниям.
Компьютерные технологии продолжают постоянно усложняться.
Если вам повезло, то клерку понадобится всего лишь 30 минут для того чтобы проверить, имеются ли на вашем счете деньги.
Мы набираем номер, и через несколько секунд телефон звонит на другом континенте. Компьютеры позволяют это сделать.
Одна из основных задач науки – расшифровка генетического кода.
С помощью компьютеров диспетчеры могут уплотнить расписание рейсов.
Вам не нужно стоять в очереди. Вы заправляетесь бензином и отправляетесь в путь.
Электронная компьютерная система помогает в управлении машиной.
13. Are you up to giving a right explanation?
It’s a sort of a game, the game that develops student’s abilities to express themselves. In some ways it helps students to plunge into English.
One of the students, a volunteer, is invited to take place at the teacher’s table. He is facing the class and mustn’t turn back and look at the blackboard. The other student with the rest of the company picks secretly out one of the statements given in this book and writes it on the blackboard.
Now the volunteer after getting some information from his colleagues tries to restore the statement.
The information concerns:
the number of words;
the main idea of the statement, if possible;
the meaning of each word of the statement. It is strictly prohibited to use the words written on the blackboard, but it is quite well to use synonyms and antonyms.
It’s extremely desirable that everybody take part in this game.
Who can express the most precise meaning of the word? Are you getting on well with your English? Try to do your best!
Let’s analyze an example. The statement is:
What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.
Cicero
Cicero
was absolutely right,
but
according to the
Theory
of Relativity
all
the apes think the same way.
Possible explanation:
This statement consists of eleven words.
It says to what conclusion came Cicero when he compared people with certain kind of animals.
The first word is used to indicate something about which the question is being asked.
The second word is the indefinite article.
The third word is an adjective. We use it when we say about something that is unpleasant to look at. The antonym of the word «beautiful».
The next one is the synonym of the word «animal». Sometimes it is used to characterize a brutal disgusting person.
The fifth one is a verb with the help of which we form the present continuous tense.
The next word is the definite article.
The seventh word is the synonym of the word «monkey».
The eighth word is a conjunction.
The next one we use when we ask a seller about the price.
We use this word when we want to say «the same as or similar to something or somebody».
The last word is a pronoun. It is used when the speaker is referring to himself together with other people.
It’s your turn now. You can find interesting statements somewhere or make them up on your own. It’s up to you. At the moment we can offer you several proverbs that can be used in this game:
You can lead the horse to the water, but you cannot make him drink.
If a man deceives me once, shame on him, if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
If you do not make mistakes, you will never make anything.
God keep me from my friends, from my enemies I will keep myself.
Go slowly to the entertainments of your friends and quickly to their misfortunes.
A man who is proud of his money rarely has anything to be proud of.
Everything has been figured out except how to live.