VI. Письменно ответьте на вопросы к тексту.

1. What is flash memory?

2. What are the differences between RAM memory and flash memory?

3. What can devices which use multi-level cell technology do?

4. What are the differences between flash drives and external hard drives?

5. What is the advantage of using U3 technology in flash drives?

6. How much data can a flash memory card hold?

7. What is the name of the flash card created by Sony for its digital cameras?

ВАРИАНТ 2.

I. Перепишите следующие предложения и переведите их на русский язык, обращая

внимание на функцию неличных форм глагола:

а) инфинитива (см. образец выполнения 1)

1. Once business and other organizations acquire computers, they want them to perform specific

jobs.

2. To help find files use the File Management command.

3. The number of information-system specialists recruited is expected to be greater than any

other business profession.

4. The quickest way to improve online security is to upgrade your mental software.

5. In a flowchart, special symbols are used to indicate different functions.

б) причастия (см. образец выполнения 2)

1. Having been transmitted to the central processing unit the instruction made arithmetic-logical

unit perform some computations.

2. One type of artificial intelligence being rapidly adopted is the expert system.

3. Most computer systems use electronic memory for primary storage, electromechanical

memory being used for secondary storage.

в) герундия (см. образец выполнения 3)

1. Graphs and diagrams can be more effective ways of communicating with clients than lists of

figures.

2. Knowing you’re succeeding is one thing. Understanding why is even sweeter.

3. I have never done any programming in Java.

4. Bell Labs grew to do everything, from basic science with little obvious practical application to

the detailed work of turning an idea into a marketable innovation.

II. Перепишите и письменно переведите на русский язык следующие сложные

предложения. Обратите внимание на перевод условных предложений (см. образец

выполнения 4).

1. If we want to use the information later on, we have to save it and store it on a disk.

2. If we bought a better printer, we would have a bigger range of typefaces and fonts to choose

from.

3. “I’m pretty sure none of this - the iMac, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad - would have

happened if I hadn’t been fired from Apple,” Mr Jobs said in 2005.

III. Перепишите предложения и переведите их на русский язык, обращая внимание

на различные значения слов that, one, it (см. образец выполнения 5).

1. The new designs are better than the old ones.

2. It is difficult to compare different machine translation systems.

3. Among the many special terms there are those that are essential and those that are much less

essential.

IV. Перепишите следующие предложения и переведите их на русский язык, обращая

внимание нафункции глаголов to be, to have, to do (см. образец выполнения 6).

1. This cycle is to be followed by a new cycle.

2. Both instruction and data have to be changed to machine code before the computer can operate

onthem.

3. Don’t be the last to change with the times.