4. Переведите предложения:

1. She wished she had never decoded this information. 2. If he had recorded that song, we would have played it back. 3. Peter would do it if he had that high-capacity device. 4. We wouldn’t have immersed in the computer image if we hadn’t imbedded some sensors into a special glove. 5. Nothing would have happened if he had described the situation. 6. Jack would have finished his work last week if it hadn’t been so difficult. 7. If you had brought together the information, you wouldn’t have had difficulties. 8. I wish I had been taught a foreign language since childhood. 9. She wished he hadn’t been elected President of the club.

5. Переведите бессоюзные условные предложения:

1. Were it possible to set up this system they would transmit data in both directions. 2. Had he dealt with these related files earlier he would have finished this operation much quicker. 3. Had he used new materials the device would have been more reliable. 4. Had they used a combined program the result would have been much better. 5. Were the data-sending capabilities of his computer improved he would perform the transmission at high speed. 6. Had we assigned this attached device it would have been possible to carry out this operation. 7. Had the sensors been imbedded into this glove you could immerse in the computer image.

6. Измените следующие предложения согласно образцам:

Образец 1: If I were free, I should help you. – Were I free, I should help you.

Образец 2: If he had known about the lecture, he would have come. – Had he known about the lecture he would have come.

1. If there were no computers, space flights would be impossible. 2. If he had had all the necessary equipment, he would have refined these photos. 3. If it were possible, manufacturers would develop these programs at once. 4. If they had got the access to that information, they would have decoded it. 5. If he had been more attentive, he wouldn’t have erased the data. 6. If there were videodiscs, we would play them back. 7. If he had added motion, he would have simulated the animation effect.

7. Прочитайте, переведите и укажите различные значения as.

1. It was necessary to lay cables across the Atlantic Ocean, as there was no radio or satellites at that time. 2. Wire and cable media types such as twisted pair wire, coaxial cable, fiber-optic cable are widely used in communications systems nowadays. 3. Engineers are working at the problem of making computers as small as possible. 4. A communication device that carries out modulation and demodulation is referred to as a modem.

KEY TERMS

8. Запомните следующие слова:

attached device	присоединенное устройство;
binary form	двоичная форма;
broadband	широкополосный;
direct-connected modem	модем с непосредственной связью;
data flow	поток данных;
data rate	размер данных;
full-duplex	дуплексный;
half-duplex	полудуплексный;
high-speed channel	быстродействующий канал;
incompatible devices	несовместимые устройства;
local-area network	локальная сеть;
narrowband	узкополосный;
node	узел;
simplex	симплексный;
transmission method	метод передачи
wide-area network	глобальная сеть.