- •Английский язык
- •§1. Основные формы глагола ...................................................................126
- •X. Imagine that you are to make a report. While preparing it use the
- •Unit two
- •7 Типов волн
- •Lesson three
- •Lesson four
- •Unit three
- •Lesson one Pre-text Exercises
- •Lesson three
- •Lesson four
- •Text с Compact Disks
- •Unit four
- •Lesson three
- •Lesson four
- •Unit five
- •Lesson one Pre-text Exercises
- •Lesson two
- •Text a The Age of Electronics
- •Lesson three
- •Lesson four
- •Vacuum Tubes
- •Unit six
- •Lesson one
- •Lesson two
- •Text a Transistors and Semiconductor Devices
- •Lesson three
- •Integrated Circuits
- •Lesson four
- •Text с From Radio Valves to Cosmic Communications
- •Unit seven
- •Text a Lasers and Masers
- •Industry
- •Lesson three
- •Lesson four
- •Laser at Work
- •Unit eight
- •Lesson three
- •Unit nine
- •Pre-text Exercises
- •Miniaturization
- •Unit ten
- •Lesson one Pre-text Exercises
- •Lesson two
- •Text a The Generations of Computers
- •Lesson three
- •Text в Microprocessor System
- •Lesson four
- •Text c a Step away from Ideal
- •Unit eleven
- •Text a Mechanization and Automation
- •Unit twelve
- •Lesson one Pre-text Exercises
- •Text a Historical Background of Robots
- •Industrial robots
- •Lesson three
- •Text в People and Robots
- •Lesson four
- •Text с Three Generations of Robots
- •Unit fourteen
- •Lesson four
- •Information and Communication in the Third Millennium
- •Unit fifteen
- •Lesson two
- •Interactive Picture Information Systems
- •Lesson four
- •Text с a Perspective on the Development of Videotex
- •Грамматический справочник
- •1. Глагол
- •§1. Основные формы глагола
- •§ 2. Система грамматических времен английского языка
- •1. Времена группы Indefinite
- •2. Времена группы Continuous
- •3. Времена группы Perfect
- •4. Времена группы Perfect Continuous
- •§ 3. Страдательный залог (The Passive Voice)
- •1. Способы перевода глагола-сказуемого
- •2. Способы перевода подлежащего
- •§ 4. Согласование времен (The Sequence of Tenses)
- •§ 5. Модальные глаголы (Modal Verbs)
- •§ 6. Сослагательное наклонение (The Subjunctive Mood)
- •§ 7. Условные предложения (The Conditional Clauses)
- •§ 8. Глагол to be (to be — was, were — been)
- •§ 9. Глагол to have (to have — had — had)
- •§ 10. Глагол to do
- •§ 11. Глагол should
- •§ 12. Глагол would
- •II. Неличные формы глагола
- •3. Субъектный инфинитивный оборот (Complex Subject)
- •4. Объектный инфинитивный оборот
- •5. Инфинитивный оборот с предлогом for
- •§ 14. Причастия (The Participles)
- •1. Формы причастия
- •2. Функции Participle I
- •3. Функции Participle II
- •4. Независимый причастный оборот
- •§ 15. Герундий (The Gerund)
- •1. Формы герундия
- •2. Функции герундия в предложении
- •3. Герундиальный оборот (Gerundial Construction)
- •4. Сравнение функций Participle I и Gerund
- •III. Анализ предложения
- •§ 16. Простое предложение (The Simple Sentence)
- •1. Признаки строя предложений в английском языке
- •2. Группа подлежащего
- •3. Группа сказуемого
- •4. Дополнение
- •5. Обстоятельство
- •6. Определение
- •§ 17. Сложное предложение (The Composite Sentence)
- •1. Сложносочиненное предложение
- •2. Сложноподчиненное предложение
- •§ 18. Усилительные конструкции (Emphatic Constructions)
- •It was the development of radio Именно развития радио
- •§ 19. Определительные сочетания
- •1. Показатели границ определительного сочетания
- •IV. Многофункциональные местоимения
- •§ 20. It
- •§ 21. That - those
- •§ 22. These
- •§ 23. One
- •§ 24. Грамматическая омонимичность слов, оканчивающихся на -s, -ed, -ing
Lesson four
I. Look through the list of English words and their Russian equivalents facilitating reading text C:
indication – указание, показание, знак; groundless – беспричинный, беспочвенный, неосновательный; data storage – запоминание (хранение) данных; entirely – полностью, совершенно; simultaneously – одновременно; consecutively – последовательно; to graduate – постепенно изменяться; to be unaware of – не знать, не подозревать; notion – понятие; pinnacle – вершина, кульминационный пункт, пик.
II. Read the text carefully and find the information about the advantages of DNA computers.
Text c a Step away from Ideal
All the indications are that the era of traditional silicon computers is coming to a close. A discovery made by scientists could turn around the high-tech market.
The researchers built a computer with DNA molecules. According to the scientists the computer of one trillion molecules will be able to perform one billion operations per second with a 99.8 per cent accuracy.
This claim is not at all groundless. One cubic centimetre of DNA can contain more information than a trillion CDs. Moreover, DNA-computers use very little energy.
Research in DNA computer technology began when scientists saw a striking similarity between the way a DNA works and the way an ideal computing machine – the so-called Turing machine¹ – could be organized. In 1994 the test-tube DNA was first used to solve a mathematical problem. Already at the time it was clear that it was far more convenient to work with the DNA computers than with the usual kind. They have capacity to store and work out vast amounts of information. The density of data storage on such machines is approximately 100,000 times higher than on a regular hard disk.
The DNA computer consists of DNA molecules and molecules of enzymes, or DNA analyzing substances. The new computer can work entirely on its own. This miniature electronic computing machine does not need a human. Thus far it can only process synthesised DNA. But it will soon graduate to read molecules.
An ordinary computer is unable to perform several tasks simultaneously. It performs them consecutively – true, very fast, so fast in fact that users are unaware of the defect. The DNA computer is free from any such shortfall. DNA molecules work as a team, and this is why the new machine is polychromic being able to perform several tasks at once.
The DNA computer processed information and stores it in the form of a chain of symbols.
So far the DNA computer operates with only two symbols, the way ordinary computers operate with the notions of “logical 0” and “logical 1”. Thus far the system is too elementary to work out any specific task. But it can serve as a platform for DNA computers of the future that will be able to work directly in a human cell identifying potential diseases and curing them. It may still be a long way to the shining pinnacles of the future. But the first step has already been made.
Notes
1. Turing machine – машина Тьюринга (Абстрактная машина, использованная Тьюрингом для точного определения понятий алгоритма и вычислимости).
III. Say:
a) what the future of traditional silicon computers is; b) what kind of computer the researchers built.
IV. Find the information about the possibilities of DNA computers. Say it to your group-mate.
V. Explain why the new machine is able to perform several tasks at once.
VI. Which paragraph contains the information dealing with DNA computer of the future? Describe it.
VII. Summarize the general ideas developed in texts A, B and C.
VIII. Make a report about the computers and microprocessor system. While preparing it use the information of units 8, 9, 10. The following plan will help you:
The development of the computer.
Kinds of modern computers.
Uses of the computer.
Programming a digital computer.
Miniaturization of computers.
Generations of computers.
The microprocessor system and its functioning.
A computer with DNA molecules.