Английский язык. Учебно-методический комплекс по направлению подготовки 230700 «Прикладная информатика»; профилям подготовки «Информационно-аналитичес

(B) прошедшего времени:

1.We ... at the office yesterday afternoon.

2.Our friends ... in Moscow two weeks ago.

3.When I ... young, I ... fond of playing computer games.

4.They ... first-studentslast year.

5.The teacher ... presented with flowers.

6.The programmer ... working all day yesterday.

(C) в выражениях «there is/are», «there was/were»:

1.There … many computers in our office.

2.The programme is poorly done. There … a serious mistakes.

3.The traffic was heavy today. There … a lot of cars.

4.There … many programming languages and the number is still increasing.

5.… there many universities at your city?

6.There … still huge problems of copyright, storage and quality reproduction.

9.Поставьте глагол «to have» в необходимую форму. Предложения переведите письменно:

1.There are three mirrors in the telescope; the largest … a diameter of 5, 2 meters.

2.Like video cassette recorder, digital audio tape machines … recording

heads.

3.We ... done a new computer system.

4.A company doesn’t usually … such a wide choice in whom to send for

training.

5.... you got some free time for me now?

10.Выберите наиболее подходящую форму глагола для перевода выделенного слова:

1.Он часто смотрит такие фильмы. a) watched

b) watches

c) has watched

2.Она только что закончила разработку компьютерной программы. a) has finished

b) had finished c) finished

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3.Он пойдет в интернет-кафе в выходные. a) will go

b) would go c) goes

4.Он не знает, какие компьютерные новинки будут разработаны через несколько лет.

a) developed

b) would develop c) will develop

5.Виктор уже был в Лондоне.

a)visit

b)was visiting

c)has visited

6.Когда мы вернулись, дети играли во дворе.

a)were playing

b)played

c)had played

7.Он живет в Москве рядом с Сокольниками.

a)lived

b)lives

c)has been living

8.Ты уже видел этот фильм?

a)saw

b)had seen

c)have seen

11. Поставьте глаголы, данные в скобках, в правильную видовременную форму, предложения переведите:

1.We ...developing a new programme last year. (start)

2.Computers … business people to keep in touch with developments all over the world (allow).

3.The research … among managers in Britain (conduct).

4.In Britain computer crime … companies about 400 million pounds a year (cost).

5.Some viruses … still silly messages (to be).

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6.Few libraries today … an opportunity to design or build their own acquisition system from scratch (have).

7.They … a computer disc with a special fault in it (programme).

8.Michael ...this film several times already. (see)

9.Last year conditions in the market ...very difficult for us. (be)

10.One hospital in Britain recently … all of its records about sick patients because of a computer virus (loose).

12. Прочитайте, письменно переведите текст:

The Library of Congress

The Library of Congress occupies three buildings on Capitol Hill. The Thomas Jefferson Building (1897) is the original separate Library of Congress building. (The Library began in 1800 inside the U.S. Capitol.) The John Adams Building was built in 1938 and the James Madison Memorial Building was completed in 1981.

An agency of the legislative branch of the U.S. government, the Library includes several internal divisions (or service units), including the Office of the Librarian, Congressional Research Service, U.S. Copyright Office, Law Library of Congress, Library Services, the Office of Strategic Initiatives and the Office of Support Operations.

Today's Library of Congress is an unparalleled world resource. The collection of more than 151 million items includes more than 34.5 million cataloged books and other print materials in 470 languages; more than 66.6 million manuscripts; the largest rare book collection in North America; and the world's largest collection of legal materials, films, maps, sheet music and sound recordings.

The Science Reference Collection consists of approximately 25,000 volumes that are shelved in the Science and Business Reading Room. Special collections include dictionaries, current journals, pamphlets, abstracts and indexes in both paper and online form, and other types of material.

The science and technology collection encompasses subject areas such as: engineering, mathematics, environmental sciences, physics, chemistry, computer sciences, astronomy, botany, medicine, agriculture, military science, naval science.

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The Science Reference Desk Collection is located in the Science Reference Services Alcove on the east side of the Science and Business Reading Room. It includes frequently requested reference books, directories, statistical compendiums, and handbooks, such as: American Men and Women of Science, CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, Directory of Chemical Producers, Encyclopedia of Associations, the Jane's series of military and weaponry books.

The Technical Dictionaries Collection is a great resource for translators, scientists, and researchers working with material in multiple languages. It includes many foreign language-to-English and English-to-foreign language works. It is especially strong in Russian, German, and French titles. It covers broad subject areas such as: geology, physics, biology, hydrology, herpetology, specialized titles such as those on wild and cultivated plants.

Researchers using the Science and Business Reading Room have access to an extensive collection of print and online services that help you find what you need.

In addition, a comprehensive collection of paper and indexes supplement the online products. Examples include: Chemical Abstracts, Food Science and Technology Abstracts, Forestry Abstracts, Horticultural Abstracts, Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews.

The Science Reference Services Current Scientific and Technical Journal Collectionis located on the shelves immediately outside of the Science Reference Alcove. The titles are shelved alphabetically. They usually include the most recent twelve months. Examples include: Journal of the American Medical Association, Nature, Science.

Current journals not in the Current Scientific and Technical Journal Collection may be available in the Newspaper and Current Periodicals Reading Room.

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осебе и своей семье:

Steve Barker is a journalist in London. He is a busy man. His work is very interesting and well-paid. Steve’s wife, Jill, is a teacher at a language school. She teaches French. She is a good teacher. Steve and Jill have a daughter. She is 10. Her name is Laura. Laura is a nice girl. She is a student at a primary school. She studies English, Maths, Art, Music and so on.

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Контрольная работа № 2 1. Образуйте множественное число от следующих существитель-

2. Переведите на русский язык следующие словосочетания:

a)my friends’ son; a son of my friend; a book of our teacher; a book of our teachers; my sister’s friend; a friend of my parents; a dictionary of this student; these students’ dictionaries; Felix’ family;

b)to draw with a pen; to say to a friend; to go to a park; to write a letter to parents; to listen to music.

3.Образуйте от данных прилагательных степени сравнения (сравнительную и превосходную):

4. Дополните предложения, используя нужные степени сравнения прилагательного:

1.Today it isn’t as … as yesterday (warm).

2.The hotel is … than I expected (cheap).

3.The examination was … than we expected (easy).

4.These seats are … than those (expensive).

5.I prefer this armchair. It’s the … one (comfortable).

5. Переведите следующие предложения, обращая внимание на модальные глаголы и их эквиваленты.

1.We must finish the programme by the end of the week.

2.A library may now design several of their own management reports.

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3.I had to be very careful about details.

4.Computers can only do what we ask them to do.

5.The first holiday-makers will be able to stay on the Moon.

6.Now we have got to decide what computer language we should use.

6. Выберите подходящий модальный глагол, предложения переведите:

1.… you speak any foreign language? may

can might will

2.The situation was bad but it ... worse. could

should be could have been

would have been

3.Jim gave me a letter to post. I … remember to post it. can

may must needn’t

4.You … have left your grease-paint in the dressing-room. should

ought to shall could

5.Are you going to read the review? No, I … I already know what it says. mustn’t

shouldn’t

needn’t

can’t

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6.I was surprised that she … say such rude words. must

would will should

7.My grandfather … recite poems in six languages many years ago. should

shall could need

7. Прочитайте, переведите письменно текст: Famous Librarians

Rupert Giles

Giles is The Watcher: the source of training, counter-intelligence, and guidance for Buffy Summers, the one girl of her generation chosen as the Vampire Slayer. Giles is the school librarian and Buffy a student at Sunnydale High School, in California.

Giles and Buffy meet and conduct much of their research in the school library. Fortunately, being America, none of the other students go anywhere near it. Giles must have a pretty free hand in stock selection, as the library has vast numbers of volumes on vampire and demon lore, the occult and witchcraft.

Unlike Buffy's friend Willow, who believes everything is to be found on the Internet, Giles knows that anything worth knowing is in a book. He also knows that you have to put in the hours in order to get results. There are centuries of knowledge in books but only thirty years-worth on the Internet. Inside every librarian's lunchbox is a sharpened stake.

Barbara Gordon

Barbara Gordon was the daughter of Gotham City's Police Commissioner James Gordon and the city's Head Librarian. One evening, whilst dressed in a home-made «Batgirl» costume on the way to a policeman’s' masquerade ball, she encountered the Killer Moth trying to kidnap wealthy industrialist Bruce Wayne (alias Batman). Luckily, being a brown belt in judo, she was able to drive him off. From then on she became Batgirl by night and librarian by day.

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After being shot by the Joker and confined to a wheelchair, Batgirl became ORACLE, the information supreme for the superheroes of the world. They come to her time and again to handle the tasks too big for their superpowers. She is a presence throughout the world: watching, tracking, investigating, searching.

And the moral of the story is....You don't have to wear your pants outside your tights to make a difference. Information is power... and who knows what librarians do at night?

Chairman Mao

Born in Hunan province, Mao was the eldest son of a moderately prosperous peasant family. During the 1911 Revolution he served in the Hunan provincial army and witnessed first-hand the chaos that followed the fall of the Ch’ing Dynasty. In the 1910s, Mao returned to school, where he became an advocate of physical fitness and collective action. After graduation from secondary school in 1918, Mao moved to Beijing where he secured a job as an assistant librarian at Beijing University, a hotbed of revolutionary thought. The head librarian, Li Ta-chao, was one of China’s few Marxist intellectuals and he had a great impact on the young Mao Tse-tung. He converted Mao to marxism and they became great friends.

And the moral of the story is.... Librarians are subversive. They don't just buy the books and find the articles, they read them too. Then they recommend them to other people. They're in the background, quietly providing information to those who want things to change. If you want to take over the world, be nice to a librarian.

Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya

Nadezhda «Nadya» Krupskaya was an influential figure in the Russian Revolution, married Vladimir Illyich Ulyanov and was one of the few people to challenge Stalin and survive. And yes, she was a librarian.

Her parents were well educated but poor and Nadya grew up with a spirit of protest against the condition of the poor. Whilst a member of various discussion circles, she discovered Marx's writings and met Lenin. They were both arrested and married whilst in exile in Siberia. She was an active bolshevik and, after the revolution, took charge of adult education in the new soviet state. After Lenin's death she was unsuccessful in resisting Stalin's rise to power.

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Despite publicly challenging him, she was not arrested during the Great Purge, when so many of his rivals were liquidated. Stalin was one of the coffin-bearers at her funeral in 1939.

Thanks to her efforts, between 1928 and 1933 literacy rose from 58–90%. She believed passionately that Marxism was the ideal way for a country to be run. She saw her goal as improving the life of the people, giving them access to education and libraries so that they could create a more fulfilling life for themselves.

And the moral of the story is... Librarians don't just work in libraries, they believe in them. Even Stalin was scared of a librarian.

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освоем родном городе:

One of the largest cities in the world, New York is situated at the mouth of the Hudson River1. New York was founded by the Dutch2. It is interesting to know that Manhattan Island3, the central part of the city, was bought from the local Indians for $24 by the Dutch.

In the 18th century New York grew into the largest city of the United States of America. Now New York is a great sea port, the leading textile and the financial centre of the country.

Manhattan Island with the Wall Street4 district is the heart of America’s business and culture. There, at Broadway and 116 Street is the campus of Columbia University, the biggest educational establishment of New York.

New York’s theatre district is often referred to as «Broadway», but most of the theatres are located actually on the side streets near Times Square. They are active year-round with top-stars performing in various plays.

It is easy to find one’s way in New York. Avenues, except Broadway, run north and south; streets run east and west and are numbered. The building numbers get higher as you move away from the Fifth Avenue and towards the rivers.

Subway (the metro is called subway in the USA) provides the cheapest and the fastest way to travel. There are no buses on the most of the avenues and on the principal streets.

1Река Гудзон.

2Манхэттен.

3Голландцы.

4Уолл-стрит.

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Контрольная работа № 3

1.Перепишите предложения, подчеркните причастия. Письменно переведите предложения:

1.Introducing the new guests, the hostess looked strangely nervous.

2.Not knowing grammar, one cannot speak foreign language correctly.

3.Nothing can save the sinking ship now, we must take care of the passengers.

4.We have had a number of worrying telephone calls today, but now everything is all right.

5.Arriving at the city they used to stay at our flat.

6.Being given the answer, the producer opened the door.

2.Перепишите предложения. Найдите и подчеркните герундий. Переведите предложения:

1.There’s no use talking to him, you cannot change his mind.

2.Nowadays children usually prefer watching TV to reading books.

3.She is thinking of quitting her job and going to another city.

4.On hearing the end of the story we could not help laughing.

5.This art exhibition is worth visiting.

6.Would you mind ringing me up tomorrow morning?

3.Перепишите и переведите предложения, обращая внимание на причастия и герундий:

1.Being introduced, the guests kept smiling.

2.The student was ashamed of having made so many mistakes in the test.

3.Having been translated, the article was published in the scientific magazine.

4.I hate being asked personal questions.

5.Being pleased with the student's answer the examiner did not ask him any more questions.

6.«I don't remember having told you my name», – remarked the girl.

4. Перепишите и переведите предложения, обращая внимание на причастные и герундиальные обороты:

1. A new generation of computers having been designed, the new era of global communication began.

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