Запомните необходимый минимум профессиональной лексики

To store хранить

Equipment оборудование,

Require требование

Tape пленка

Reliability надежность, достоверность

Maintenance поддержание; сохранение

Access доступ

Capability способность, возможность

Amazing восхитительный, удивительный

artificial intelligence искусственный интеллект

Задание I

А. Определите

а) какой частью речи являются следующие слова:

Newer, reader, directly, introduction, instruction, capable, languages, intelligence, faster, refinement, allowing, personal, symbolic, logical, modify, programming, advantages

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

Б. Образуйте и переведите однокоренные слова, относящиеся к другим частям речи (при затруднении обратитесь к словарю):

Conditioning (n, v), requirement (v.), maintenance (v), reducing (v), store (n), generate (adj), industry (adj), introduce (n), detect (n), general (v), person (adj).

Задание II

А. Подберите слова (а, b, c…), к утверждениям, обозначенным цифрами

b) Babbage

c) First Generation Computer

d) Fourth Generation Computer

e) Jacquard, Hollerith

f) Pascal

g) Second Generation Computer

h) Third Generation Computer

1. Inventor of the first calculating machine.

2. Earliest known calculating device.

3. Bulky in size, requiring large amounts of air conditioning and having a

high maintenance rate.

4. Developed punched card principle used in automatic looms.

5. Allows computer to direct access outside storage devices.

6. Replaced vacuum tubes with transistors.

7. Advanced miniaturization and refined computer components.

8. Invented large scale calculators.

Б. Вставьте предлог, где это необходимо

1. Computer program of … future will probably be quite different from those in … use today.

2. It will be … interesting future – waiting for each new development and marveling at each new advance in data processing.

3. Every home could have … built-in communications system, similar to … cable television.

4. A built-in communications system will allow … user to have … world’s information at his immediate disposal without leaving his home.

5. … programming as we know it may cease to exist.

В. Переведите предложения, обращая внимание на использование времена группы «Perfect»:

1. Biochemists have found a physical limit to the information they can obtain with their instruments.

2. Computers have been especially valuable in analyzing the signals from outer space.

3. Scientific research has moved into the foreground of human activity.

4. The achievements of computers in all sciences have been fantastic.

5. The object of this text has been to show the usage of computers in various sciences.

Задание III

А. Найдите в тексте ответ на вопрос.

What means the concept of “Virtual Storage”?

Б. Завершите предложение в соответствии с содержанием текста:

The third generation computers were characterized …