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1. Read and learn the following words:

Arithmetic unit арифметическая единица

Automatic computer автоматический компьютер

Computation вычисление

Contemporary современный

Detailed drawing подробный рисунок

Digital цифровой

Disappointed разочарованный

Outstanding выдающийся

Practical application практическое применение

Table of logarithms таблица логарифмов

Tabular functions функции, представленные в таблице

To be misunderstood быть неправильно понятым

To imagine представлять

Tutor преподаватель, наставник

United efforts объединенные усилия

Universal универсальный

2. Answer the following questions to the text a:

1. What is believed to have started with Charles Babbage? 2. What did he invent in 1812? 3. Where was Charles Babbage born and what education did he receive? 4. Why was Babbage outstanding among his contemporaries? 5. How did the idea of computing all tabular functions by machinery occur to him? 6. When was a small working model constructed by Babbage demonstrated? 7. Did the Royal Society support the project and what was Babbage promised? 8. Why is it said that he died a disappointed man? 9. What did he try to solve with the help of his own resources? 10. Was there anybody who continued Babbage’s work?

3. Insert the necessary prepositions to the following sentences:

among, after, by, in, of, on, to, with.

The history … automatic computers is believed to have started … Charles Babbage, an English scientist.

Charles Babbage was born … Devonshire, England … 1792.

When he went … Cambridge he found that he knew mathematics better than his tutor.

In 1812 he was working … the table … logarithms, when an idea … computing all tabular functions … machinery occurred … him.

… 1833 he began to think … building a machine which was the first universal digital computer.

He was misunderstood … his contemporaries and died a disappointed man … 1871.

… his death his son continued his work and built a part … an arithmetic unit, which printed out its results directly … paper.

Babbage was outstanding … his contemporaries because he was the first to insist … the practical application … science and mathematics.

He tried to solve a series … problems required the united efforts … two generations … engineers … himself and … his own resources.

4. Choose the words that are missed in the following sentences:

Attempt, calculating, eighty, finance, machine, mathematics, situation, supported, working.

  1. It was he who suggested that a … for mathematical computations could be made. 2. Charles Babbage, a professor of Cambridge University, invented the first … machine in 1812. 3. He could hardly have imagined the … we find ourselves in today. 4. He didn't receive a good education, but he taught himself … so well. 5. Babbage constructed a small … model which was demonstrated in 1822. 6. The Royal Society … the project and Babbage was promised a subsidy. 7. Babbage devoted the rest of his life to an … to develop it. 8. He had to … the whole of the work himself and he was only able to finish part of the machine. 9. Charles Babbage wrote more than … books and papers.