7. Find sentences with Participle I and translate them.

1. When entering the Internet, I always find a lot of interesting information.

2. Though never built Babbage's analytical engine was the basis for designing today's computers. 3. When written in a symbolic language programs require the translation into the machine language.

4. While operating on the basis of analogy analog computers simulate physical systems.

5. When used voltage represents other physical quantities in analog computers.

6. Being discrete events commercial transactions are in a natural form for a digital computer.

7. As contrasted with the analyst, the computer system architect designs computers for many different applications.

8. While dealing with discrete quantities digital computers count rather than measure.

9. When using a microcomputer you are constantly making choice — to open a file, to close a file, and so on.

10. As known all computer systems perform the functions of inputting, storing, processing, controlling, and outputting.

8. Ask questions to which the sentences below could be answers. Translate the sentences.

1. Computers are applying for automatic piloting and automatic navigation.

2. You were recordering data on magnetic discs when we came.

3. Microcomputers making their way into classrooms to an ever – increasing extent.

4. They were discussing applications of personal computers?

5. She will be trying to use the Internet all day long tomorrow.

9. Write the following sentences in the negative form. Change passive constructions into active.

1. Base five numeration system is being used in such electronic computers.

2. The answer was being easily obtained by using internet.

3. Researches were being done in this field.

4. Legacy BIOS are now being replaced by Extensible Firmware Interface, which is being adopted as 32 bit CPLS are replaced with 64 bit processors

5. Numbers were being added with the help of calculator.

Speaking

10. Work in groups. Say which of the following ideas about the Internet are good or bad.

independent ■ world wide ■ cheap to use ■ expensive to buy computers ■ the information may not be true or correct ■ spend too much time playing games ■ talking in chat rooms ■ make new friends ■ visit many interesting websites ■ wait for a long time to download Web pages

11. Read and translate the dialogue.

Act it or make up your own one.

A: Computers, computers! They are applied in weather forecasting, medicine, manufacturing and research.

B: The production lines will soon hardly need people. They’ll become completely automatic.

A: Artificial intelligence! An electronic brain! Who could have believed it a century ago!

B: Nevertheless, the computer is a data storage system created by man.

A: You’re quite right. A man tells the machine what to do, when to do it and how it should be done.

B: There’s no magic involved. The machine is programmed to process data fast and accurately.

A: I wish I had more of them in my lab.

B: How could they help you?

A: They would do a lot of useful operations: they’d do calculations, they’d keep records of our financials affairs, they’d create diagrams and drawings, they’d process the results of our experiments.

B: As a matter of fact computers do save a lot of energy and time.