Exercise VI

Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.

“I can’t 1____________ (believe) it! I passed all my exams! I really don’t know how I managed 2____________ (pass) Maths. Now I need 3____________ (decide) what to study at university, but the problem is that I don’t know what I want 4__________ (do).

A few months ago I decided 5___________ (study) Biology, but now I’m not sure. It seems 6___________ (be) difficult to find a job as a biologist. I suppose I could 7___________ (become) a doctor, but it must 8_____________ (be) a very stressful job. My mum says you can learn 9____________ (enjoy) anything, but I wouldn’t like 10____________ (work) in a hospital.

I enjoy 11_____________ (work) with people. I don’t like 12______________ (do) the same thing every day. I don’t mind 13 __________ (get) up early. I love 14___________ (travel) and I prefer 15__________ (work) outside. Oh, and I can’t stand 16___________ (talk) on the phone for a long time. What’s the best job for me?”

Complete the statements with the infinitive or the gerund.

I love ________ (write) songs.

I can’t stand ________ (have) a routine.

I enjoy _________ (be) the centre of attention.

I don’t mind _________ (wear) a uniform.

I hope _________ (get) the chance to play.

I’d like _________ (help) people.

I can __________ (do) things for people.

Variant IV Exercise I

Read and translate the text into Russian.

Electrons that Think.

We live in the electronic age. As a science, electronics is changing the lives of people as much as the industrial revolution did.

When somebody thinks of electronics he thinks first of all of such devices as radio or television which appeared in the beginning of the 20-th century. But electronics – the control of electric current in vacuum tubes and special crystals – has thousands of other uses today. Even the engine in a modern car is not possible without electronics controlling the work of its cylinders.

Everywhere you can see machines, trains and airplanes equipped with different electronic devices.

Electronics made possible automation, which controls factory production by machines instead of people. The heart of automation is an electronic computer. The electronic computer used in different factories, laboratories and computing centers can solve almost any production problem automatically.

When is the basic principle of automatic computation? As we know at a time a wire can carry only one electric signal but that one signal delivers two units of information. A computer can work using a binary number system. Binary numbers have only two digits instead of ten digits used in our number system. With the help of only these two digits the computer can count other numbers. As the electronic calculator operates with the speed of electric current it counts almost as fact as the current passes through its circuits.

Scientists sometime’s call a computer a “thinking machine” but generally speaking the “thinking machine” does not think at all. It only follows the instructions introduced in the form of computer programmes.