3. Переведите следующие предложения, пользуясь словарем.

1. Since electronic computers were first used in scientific and engineering computation, solving primarily mathematical problems, many of the terms came from this mathematical background.

2. Software was defined as anything and everything related to an electronic computer that is not present in hardware.

3. Increasingly, computers are also being used in teaching and training.

4. New applications are being made possible due to the compactness and low cost of microcomputer-based systems.

5. Electronic systems are being widely spread all over the world nowadays.

6. Steps have been taken to increase the speed of sending up messages.

7. The report of the lab has been widely discussed and has been a stimulus for further investigations.

8. The capacity of the computer for strong, processing and displaying information has been greatly increased by microelectronics.

9. Electromagnets can be used to send messages.

10. All the programming languages may be divided into high-level languages and machine-level languages.

4. Переведите предложения на английский язык.

1. Эволюцию (развитие) цифровых компьютеров часто разделяют на поколения.

2. Аналитическая машина была спроектирована в 1842.

3. Компьютер – это машина со сложной сетью электронных цепей.

4. Основной задачей компьютера является обработка данных.

5. Компьютер может выполнять сотни и даже тысячи логических операций.

6. Первая попытка создать электронный компьютер принадлежала проф. Атанасову в 1937г.

7. Компьютеры могут осуществлять очень сложные операции за чрезвычайно короткое время – за секунды или даже доли (fraction) секунды.

8. Компьютер может осуществлять определенный набор инструкций, но эти инструкции могут сочетаться в бесконечной (infinite) последовательности.

9. Компьютеры хранят информацию на дисках в файлах.

10. Современный компьютер может решать сложные задачи в миллион раз быстрее, чем квалифицированный математик.

5. Заполните пропуски данными словами в нужной форме и переведите письменно текст на русский язык. Supercomputers.

The speed and power of ___1___, the fastest class of computer, are almost beyond human comprehension, and capabilities are continually being ___2___.

The most sophisticated of these ___3___ can perform nearly 32 billion ___4___ per second, can __5____ a billion characters in memory at one time, and do in hour what a desktop computer would take 40 years to do. Supercomputers attain these speeds through the use of several advanced ___6___. For example, critical circuitry is supercooled to nearly absolute zero so that electrons can move at the speed of light, and many processors are linked in such a way that they can all work on a single problem __7____. Because these computers can cost millions of dollars, they are used primarily by government agencies and large research centers.

a) simultaneously; b) supercomputers; c) calculation; d) improved;

e) engineering technique; f) machine; g) store.