Запомните необходимый минимум профессиональной лексики:

hardware components аппаратные части (компоненты)

software components программные части (компоненты)

video information видео информация

punctuation marks пунктуационные отметки

processor socket процессорное гнездо

memory socket гнездо памяти

expansion slot слот (разъем) расширения

serial and parallel ports последовательные и параллельные порты

peripheral controllers периферийные контроллеры

power supply источник питания

system buses системные шины

maintain поддерживать, сохранять

internal внутренний

request запрос

flexible гибкий

Задание I

А. Определите

а) какой частью речи являются следующие слова:

Movement, internal, basically, primary, expansion, responsible, experience.

б) переведите приведенные выше слова, учитывая значение их суффиксов/префиксов.

Задание II

А. Подберите синоним к словам, обозначенным цифрами.

1. contain

2. store

3. display

4. permit

5. carry out

6. type

7. maintain

a) allow

b) keep

c) perform

d) print

e) include

f) show

g) support

h) produce

i) include

Б. Подберите эквиваленты к словосочетаниям, обозначенным цифрами:

1. Magnetic patterns a. операционная система

2. Expansion card b.оператив. запоминающее устройство

3. Operating system с.плата расширения

4. Random Access Memory d. магнитные частицы

В. Заполните пропуски, используя данные предлоги:

(of, on, into, for, at, in, to)

1. A monitor is responsible … conveying information … the user.

2. A system unit is a box made … metal or plastic.

3. A mouse contains … least one button.

4. Different drives may be installed … a computer.

5. There are two types … processor: slotted and socket.

6. Memory is a temporary storage place … data.

7. The mouse controls the movement … the pointer … the screen.

8. All computer components are either contained … or attached … the motherboard.

Задание III

А. Найдите в тексте и переведите инфинитив в функции определения.

Б. Найдите в тексте и переведите причастия в функции определения.

С. Переведите предложения, обращая внимание на функцию герундия в предложениях

1. Processing data is the main function of the unit.

2. By processing request from applications the BIOS permits to control hardware settings.

3. The idea of processing data automatically was very appealing.

4. They started processing immediately.

5. Without further processing the device can’t be used anywhere.

6. His task was to organize processing as soon as possible.

7. The topic of their discussion was processing information in logical systems.

Задание IV

A. Составьте все типы вопросительных предложений к следующему предложению.

Video card is responsible for converting graphics and text into the monitor.

6. Yes/no

7. The size of what

8. What(to the subject)

9. Or

10. …, _not_?

Б. Выберите предложение, смысл которого противоречит содержанию текста.

1. The motherboard contains a lot of sockets for different computer components.

2. Random Access Memory provides long-term storage of data.

3. A keyboard is an input/output device.

4. Monitors display different kinds of information.

5. CD- ROMs keep more data than DVD ROMs.

6. A BIOS is a part of the computer hardware.

7. Display, video or graphics cards are different names of the same device.

8. System buses carry information between different computer devices.

9. A mouse is a hand-held device that contains only one button.

Задание V

Выполните письменный перевод текста.

Unit 5

Подберите русские эквиваленты следующим словам и словосочетаниям, содержащим интернациональные корни:

Astronomy, instrument, observatory, information, principle, computers, universal, encyclopedia, section, transistors, exclusive, laboratory.

Прочитайте текст. Пользуясь словарем, определите значение незнакомых слов и выпишите их в тетрадь.

What is Internet?

Wherever you were, whatever you read, see or hear you can meet information about Internet.

Whether you worked in the sphere of education or business, whether you were an employee of some official body, whether you worked with a computer you were probably once or twice asked: “What is your address in the Internet?”

So what is Internet? Why has this global network suddenly appeared? How many people use Internet? In what directions does Internet develop?

Answers to these questions allow experts to develop this extremely important communication system.

There are three stages of computer development.

The era of the “Black box” (1939 – 1970).

That time computers represented the huge weight of electronic lamps, transistors or integrated circuits. They also filled huge black metal boxes. If you smoked or raised voice, they wheezed and stopped. IBM firm manufactured the majority of them.

2. The era of personal computers (1970 – 1990). The invention of microcircuits and new operational systems meant that computers of cheaper and smaller sizes could perform the larger amount of work faster. Miniaturization and improvement of program maintenance have given computers at disposal of small business and families. By the end of this period the majority of people used programs of Microsoft firm.

3. The era of the World net (1992). The beginning of Internet was necessary for the defensive industry, and for investigators of the academic laboratories and computer communication network. There were dozens of experts in the USA, in the UK, and Norway who were true explorers of Internet.

The new communication facility became popular when operators started to send messages to each other to exchange new ideas and to discuss general scientific problems. It was e-mail.

Internet is the largest communication network in the world. Recently some sources have been approved and now Internet connects more than 40000 various networks in more than one hundred countries. Imagine that over 5 million main computers participate in Internet and service 40 million users all over the world.

However, it is very difficult to define real number of users to say how widely Internet is distributed. Nobody operates this network. It has no management establishing, the instructions for use, and allocated authority to introduce them. Internet extends faster and faster. It is easier to speak about how Internet has grown for years from the moment of its appearance than to name the exact amount of its users.

Internet is frequently considered by beginners as a big information “dump”. But to help them with huge amount of facts there are various search systems, thematic sites etc. There are also such collectors of the information as encyclopedias. Due to them, you do not need to search for the necessary information on the sites. It is only necessary to find the thematic encyclopedia interesting to you and the address taken from Internet, and to read everything on the given theme. In the network there are both universal and specialized encyclopedias.

Запомните необходимый минимум профессиональной лексики:

Facility возможность, благоприятные условия

Dozen дюжина

Integrated circuit встроенная схема

Direction направление

Improvement улучшение, усовершенствование; исправление; развитие

Network сеть

Distribute волновать, тревожить, беспокоить

Amount количество