VI. Письменно ответьте на вопросы к тексту.

1. What does telecommunications mean in the modern world?

2. What do they call teleworking?

3. Can you write the term that refers to the transmission of audio signals (radio) or audiovisual signals (television)?

4. What are two systems that let you receive multimedia on your mobile phone?

5. How can we use GPS?

6. What are wearable devices equipped with?

7. What is the meaning of the term cyborg?

ВАРИАНТ 5.

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

внимание на функцию неличных форм глагола:

а) инфинитива (см.образец выполнения 1)

1. Computers provide many opportunities for us to improve the quality of both our private and

professional lives.

2. Input and output devices are known to be called peripherals.

3. We shall make the experiment with the equipment to be taken from another lab.

4. Although the quality is not the same, many programmers have assumed it to be so.

5. This program runs too slow to do the simulation.

б) причастия (см.образец выполнения 2)

1. Having finished the research the scientists made the analysis of the data obtained.

2. Data having been entered correctly into the computer component of a data processing system,

the need for further manipulation by humans is eliminated.

3. You may not be looking for a new job, but you are open to thinking about a change.

в) герундия (см.образец выполнения 3)

1. A lot of time and money is saved by testing a car design before making the product.

2. Advertising on the web is becoming fashionable.

3. CAD programs are widely used in engineering.

4. On April 16^th a jury began hearing arguments in a trial to determine whether Google’s

Android operating system infringes copyrights and patents owned by Oracle.

II. Перепишите и письменно переведите на русский язык следующие сложные

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

выполнения 4).

1. If you upgrade your PC, you’ll be able to run multimedia applications.

2. If we installed a fax machine and e-mail facility, we would not post so many letters each day.

3. Had I heard any news, I would have told you immediately.

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

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

1. There exist some problems, but all of them are soluble ones.

2. Mr Jobs’s critics complained that the products and systems he designed were closed and

inflexible, in the name of greater ease of use.

3. It’s advisable not to open e-mails from strangers.

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. Often only the new models are given detailed descriptions.

2. If you work in an office with a large number of computers, don’t sit too close to the sides or

backs of the monitors.

3. Two decades ago only spies and systems administrators had to worry about passwords.

V. Прочитайте и устно переведите весь текст.

MANY USERS, MANY USES

Home Working: The Lonely Reality

Working at home rather than in an office has received considerable attention from people in business, with some reports suggesting that places where people work together will soon be a thing of the past. However, a recent survey carried out by an international property consultant, Larry Newson, finds that only eight per cent of office staff actually work from home more than one day a week. The percentage has increased little over the last few years, and only 17% of all office workers said they would want to work from home regularly.

Separate findings, from an insurance company, stress one of the main areas of concern. Paul Orchard, the firm's senior partner, says, 'People enjoy meeting other people at work, and working at home is a lonely alternative'. One bank employee who took part in home working found that this loneliness lowered the quality of her work, as she was unable to concentrate. Other problems she experienced included computer failures, which meant she had to go into the office anyway. Joe Seer, in his research for a trade union, reported: 'I studied one particular home worker from a public relations firm. She would go into the office for meetings because of loneliness and to get help from other staff, but would find that they thought she was just avoiding work. They considered home working the lazy way of doing things, and this caused several arguments.’

Some of these problems may be caused simply by the fact that such patterns of work are unfamiliar. That does not help people such as one publishing worker, who was allowed to work from home, but then had to accept a £2000 pay cut. Another employee, a senior marketing consultant, had a whole list of complaints, including no assistance with the extra cost of electricity and the phone, and being contacted 24 hours a day, even in the evenings and at weekends. Home working may seem an attractive idea, but when faced with problems like these, it is not surprising that relatively few people actually choose to do it.