Part II. Language

6. Make your own sentences with the words and phrases: to design, virtual reality, contactless, software and hardware’ developers, accessible, processing, a huge impact, GPS, the online banking service, VLE.

7. Fill in the blanks:

1. If you want to memorize basic facts through repetition you can refer to….

2. A computer can only… whether the answer is right or wrong.

3. … can’t find out why a student makes mistakes.

4. A computer can’t explain… so that the student will understand them.

5. As there are too many… the computer can’t deal with them successfully.

6. The computers are… in practicing simple skills.

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indispensable, variables, important concepts, a computer, evaluate, computer learning

8. Make sentences using the given words in the correct order:

1. but, we, mean, also, computers, we, quantity, and, high speed, when, a further development of, high technology, speak about not only.

2. electronic circuits, and, in laboratories, reliable, for more perfect, throughout the world, is going on, high speed, a continuous search).

3. operates, the ordinary computer, all, operation by operation, are being done, the supercomputer, does, simultaneously, the computations, operations, while, like a brain.

9. Fill in the blanks:

1. … is in the heart of every electronic device we use at present.

2. When speaking about further development of computers we first of all speak about….

3. … is going on in laboratories to work out more perfect, reliable and high speed electronic circuits.

4. The ordinary computer does the… operation by operation.

5. Some researchers think that with the invention of the fifth generation computers we approach what is called….

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true physical limit, high technology and high speed, a continuous search, computations, the integrated circuit

10. Complete the text using the appropriate tenses (Past Simple, Present Perfect):

Since computers were first introduced to the public in the early 1980's, technology (change) a great deal. The first computers (be) simple machines designed for basic tasks. They (have, not) much memory and they (be, not) very powerful. Early computers were often quite expensive and customers often (pay) thousands of dollars for machines which actually (do) very little. Most computers (be) separate, individual machines used mostly as expensive typewriters or for playing games. 

Times (change). Computers (become) powerful machines with very practical applications. Programmers (create) a large selection of useful programs which do everything from teaching foreign languages to bookkeeping. We are still playing video games, but today's games (become) faster, more exciting interactive adventures. Many computer users (get, also) on the Internet and (begin) communicating with other computer users around the world. We (start) to create international communities online. In short, the simple, individual machines of the past (evolve) into an international World Wide Web of knowledge.