Высокие технологии в современной англоязычной литературе. Часть IV. Методические указания для бакалавров и специалистов 1-2 курсов всех отделений и на

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Методические указания

ВЫСОКИЕ ТЕХНОЛОГИИ В СОВРЕМЕННОЙ АНГЛОЯЗЫЧНОЙ ЛИТЕРАТУРЕ

для бакалавров и специалистов 1-2 курсов всех отделений и направлений подготовки

Часть IV

Составитель Т.В.Кожевникова, к.п.н., доцент

Издание утверждено советом ОТФ-2. Протокол № 3 от 11.11.2013г.

Рецензент Т.Н.Машенская, ст.преподаватель

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ВВЕДЕНИЕ

Методические указания «Высокие технологии в современной англоязычной литературе» ч. IV (приложение) являются продолжением цикла учебных материалов, направленных на развитие умений и навыков всех видов чтения на английском языке (ознакомительного, изучающего,

просмотрового, поискового). Они служат дополнением к «Учебнику английского языка для университетов и институтов связи» (автор Кожевникова Т.В., изд. 6-е, 2012г.) и «Аудиокурсу английского языка для университетов и институтов связи» (автор Кожевникова Т.В., изд. 2-е, 2010г.), предназначены для бакалавров и специалистов 1-2 курсов всех отделений и направлений подготовки в МТУСИ, а также могут быть использованы на занятиях с магистрами, аспирантами, слушателями дополнительной квалификации «Переводчик в сфере профессиональной коммуникации» и курсов английского языка продвинутого уровня.

Методические указания «Высокие технологии в современной англоязычной литературе» ч. IV (приложение) соответствуют ФГОС ВПО третьего поколения, примерной Программе дисциплины «Иностранный язык» для подготовки бакалавров (неязыковые вузы), программе кандидатского экзамена для аспирантов, а также учебным планам соответствующих направлений. Они рассчитаны на 34 часа аудиторных занятий.

Методические указания состоят из 17 текстов (отрывков из произведений авторов 2000-х годов), снабженных заданиями,

ориентированными на формирование всего комплекса профессионально значимых компетенций, связанных с чтением на английском языке.

Тексты характеризуются актуальностью, разнообразием авторских стилей, соответствием кругу интересов молодежи. Они насыщены современной лексикой, конструкциями и оборотами, отражающими мощное

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воздействие на язык внедрения высоких технологий в повседневную жизнь людей.

Благодаря специфике отобранных текстов и методически обоснованной системе заданий методические указания «Высокие технологии в современной англоязычной литературе» ч. IV (приложение) помогают обучаемым использовать полученные знания в своей повседневной деятельности.

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ПРИЛОЖЕНИЕ

Text 1

Read the text and follow the instructions.

Deaver J. Carte blanche: a James Bond novel.- L.: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., 2011.-P.27-28

The Irishman would have taken the rucksack and everything else from the boot, of course. Inside the car, though, on the inverted ceiling, towards the back seat, there were a few scraps of paper. Bond jammed them into his pockets before the flames forced him away. He ran back to the Jetta and sped off towards Highway 21, away from the approaching flashing lights. He fished out his mobile. It resembled an iPhone, but was a bit larger and featured special optics, audio systems and other hardware.

The unit contained multiple phones – one that could be registered to an agent‘s official or nonofficial cover identity, then a hidden unit, with hundreds of operational apps and encryption packages. (Because the device had been developed by Q Branch it had taken all of a day for some wit in the office to dub them

‗iQPhones‘.)He opened an app that gave him a priority link to a GCHQ tracking centre. He recited into the voice-recognition system a description of the yellow Zastava Eurozeta lorry the Irishman was driving.

The computer in Cheltenham would automatically recognize Bond‘s location and determine projected routes for the truck, then train the satellite to look for any nearby vehicle of this sort and track it. Five minutes later he heard his phone buzz. Excellent. He glanced at the screen. But the message was not from the snoops; it was from Bill Tanner, chief of staff at Bond‘s outfit. The subject heading said:

CRASH DIVE – shorthand for Emergency. Eyes flipping from the road to the phone, Bond read on.

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Task 1

Agree or disagree with the following statements:

1.Inside the car there were a few papers.

2.Bond‘s mobile resembled an iPhone.

3.Bond opened a link that gave him a priority link to Q Branch.

4.He heard his phone buzz ten minutes later.

5.The message was from the snoops.

Task 2

Ask 10 questions to the text. Ask your neighbor to answer them.

Task 3

Write a summary of the text.

Text 2

Read the text and answer the following questions.

1.How much did the device weigh?

2.How can you describe the device?

3.Who made a lot of money from destroying documents securely?

4.What or Who is Green Way?

5.How did Hydt expand his empire?

6.How was it possible to destroy data effectively?

7.How did the machine do everything?

8.What did Hydt‘s sales people assure his customers about?

9.Who directed the guests to the rear?

10.Where could all that was left of the hard drive be seen?

11.What was Hydt?

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Deaver J. Carte blanche: a James Bond novel.- L.:Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., 2011.- P.171-173

They all walked back into the garden of machines. Al-Fulan led them to a complicated device, weighing several tons, sitting in the loading bay beside two large industrial refuse compactors. The Arab hit buttons and, with a growl, the machine slowly warmed up. It was about twenty feet long, six high and six wide. At the front end a metal conveyor-belt led into a mouth about a yard square. Inside all was blackness, although Hydt could just make out horizontal cylinders, covered with spikes, like a combine harvester. At the rear, half a dozen chutes led to bins, each containing a thick grey plastic liner, open at the top to catch whatever the machine disgorged.

Hydt studied it carefully. He and Green Way made a lot of money from destroying documents securely, but the world was changing. Most data resided on computer and flash drives nowadays and this would be increasingly the case in the future. Hydt had decided to expand his empire by offering a new approach to destroying computer data storage devices. A number of companies did this, as did Green Way, but the new approach would be different, thanks to al-Fulan‘s invention. At the moment, to destroy data effectively, computers had to be dismantled by hand and hard drives had to be wiped of data with magnetic degaussing units, then crushed. Other steps were required to separate the other components of the old computer – many of them dangerous e-waste. This machine, however, did everything automatically. You simply tossed the old computer on to the belt and the device did the rest, breaking it apart while al-Fulan‘s optical systems identified the components and sent them to appropriate bins.

Hydt‘s sales people could assure his customers that this machine would make certain not only that the sensitive information on the hard drive was destroyed but that all the other components were identified and disposed of according to local environmental regulations. At a nod from her boss, Stella picked up an old laptop

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and set it on the ribbed conveyor-belt. It vanished into the dim recesses of the device. They heard a series of sharp cracks and thuds and finally a loud grinding noise. Al-Fulan directed his guests to the rear, where after five or six minutes they watched the machine spit the various sorted bits of scrap into different bins – metal, plastic, circuit boards and the like. In the bin liner marked ‗Media Storage‘ they saw fine metal and silicon dust, all that was left of the hard drive. The dangerous e-waste, like the batteries and heavy metals, was deposited in a receptacle marked with warning labels and the benign components were dropped into recycling bins. Al-Fulan then directed Hydt and Dunne to a monitor, on which a report about the machine‘s efforts scrolled past. Dunne‘s icy façade had slipped.

He seemed almost excited. Hydt, too, was pleased, very pleased. He began to ask a question. But then he looked at a clock on the wall. It was six thirty. He could concentrate on the machinery no longer.

Task 4

Read the text again and find the endings of the following sentences in it. Translate them into Russian.

1.It was about twenty feet long…

2.At the rear, half a dozen…

3.Most data resided…

4.Other steps were required…

5.At a nod from a boss…

6.The dangerous e-waste…

7.Al-Fulan then directed Hydt…

Task 5

Discuss the text with your neighbor in a form of dialogue.

Text 3

Read the text and follow the instructions

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Deaver J. Carte blanche: a James Bond novel.- L.:Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., 2011.- P.257-258

At close to five p.m. on Wednesday, Bond‘s mobile emitted the ringtone reserved for emergency messages. He hurried from the bathroom, where he‘d just showered, and read the encrypted email. It was from GCHQ, reporting that Bond‘s attempt to bug Severan Hydt had been somewhat successful. Unknown to Captain Bheka Jordaan, the flash drive that Bond had given Hydt, holding digital pictures of the killing fields in Africa, also contained a small microphone and transmitter. What it lacked in audio resolution and battery life, it made up for in range. The signal was picked up by a satellite, amplified and beamed down to one of the massive receiving antennae at Menwith Hill in the beautiful Yorkshire countryside. The device had transmitted fragments of a conversation Hydt and Dunne had had just after they‘d left the fictional EJT Services office in downtown Cape Town.

The words had finally made their way through the decryption queue and been read by an analyst, who had flagged them as critical and shot the missive to Bond. He now read the CX – the raw intelligence – and the analysed product. It seemed that Dunne was planning to kill one of Hydt‘s workers, Stephan Dlamini, and his family, because the employee had seen something in a secure part of Green Way that he shouldn‘t have, perhaps information that related to Gehenna.

Bond‘s goal was clear: save him at all costs. Purpose . . . response. The man lived outside Cape Town. The death would be made to look like a gang attack. Grenades and firebombs would be used. And the attack would occur at suppertime. After that, though, the battery died and the device had stopped transmitting. At suppertime. Perhaps any moment now. Bond hadn‘t managed to rescue the woman in Dubai. He wasn‘t going to let this family die now. He needed to find out what Dlamini had learnt. But he could hardly contact Bheka Jordaan and tell her what he‘d found out via illegal surveillance. He picked up the phone and called the concierge. ‗Yes, sir?‘‗I have a question for you,‘ Bond said casually. ‗I had a

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problem with my car today and a local fellow helped me out. I didn‘t have much cash with me and I wanted to give him something for his trouble. How would I go about finding his address? I have his name and the town he lives in, but nothing more.‘ ‗What‘s the town?‘‗Primrose Gardens.‘There was silence. Then the concierge said, ‗It‘s a township.‘ A squatters‘ camp, Bond recalled, from the briefing material Bheka Jordaan had given him. The shacks rarely had standard postal addresses. ‗Well, could I go there, ask if anyone knew him?‘Another pause. ‗Well, sir, it might not be very safe.‘ ‗I‘m not too worried about that.‘‗I think it would not be practical, either.‘ ‗Why is that?‘‗The population of Primrose Gardens is around fifty thousand.‘

Task 6

Find the endings of the following sentences from the text. Translate them into Russian.

1.What is lacked in audioresolution…

2.It seemed that Dunne…

3.And the attack would occure…

4.He needed to find…

5.A squatters camp, Bond recalled…

Task 7

Write down what is said in the text about: Jeveran Hydt

Bheku Jordan Dunne

Stephan Dlamini Primrose Gardens

Task 8

Do such districts as Primrose Gardens exist in other countries? Who live in

them? How is it possible to cope with the problem of such districts?

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