Министерство образования и науки российской федерации
ФЕДЕРАЛЬНОЕ АГЕНСТВО ПО ОБРАЗОВАНИЮ
ТЕХНОЛОГИЧЕСКИЙ ИНСТИТУТ (филиал)
Государственного образовательного учреждения высшего профессионального образования
«Московский инженерно-физический институт (государственный университет»
(г. Лесной)
КАФЕДРА
ИНОСТРАННЫХ ЯЗЫКОВ
И.В. ПЛЮХИНА
УЧЕБНО-МЕТОДИЧЕСКОЕ ПОСОБИЕ
по дисциплине
«ИНОСТРАННЫЙ ЯЗЫК»
для студентов специальности «Управление и информатика в технических системах» очно-заочной формы обучения.
Утверждено на заседании кафедры
01 сентября 2007 г.
Лесной 2007
И.В. Плюхина. Учебно-методическое пособие. Часть II. – Свердловская область, г. Лесной, 2007. – 43 с.
Пособие предназначено для студентов I-II курса, обучающихся по специальности 220201 «Управление и информатика в технических системах». Оно состоит из 5 циклов, построенных по единому принципу, которые содержат основной текст, грамматические и лексические упражнения, задания для активизации навыков устной речи, а также дополнительные тексты для ознакомительного и просмотрового чтения.
Технологический институт (филиал)
Государственного
образовательного учреждения высшего
профессионального образования
«Московский инженерно-физический институт (государственный университет)»
(г. Лесной)
UNIT 1.
HISTORY OF COMPUTER ENGINEERING.
Text a. Charles babbage. (1792 – 1871)
The Englishman designed the first modern digital computer, but he never built it. He did build other useful devices, though, including a submarine.
Charles babbage, master inventor.
English mathematician Charles Babbage designed the first modern computer in the 1830’s. He
called it an analytical engine.
If Babbage had been able to get enough money to build the computer, the analytical engine would have been as big as a locomotive. It would have been able to store 1,000 /50 – digit numbers. That was unheard of back then – even though today’s machines can store millions of times of information.
Charles Babbage was born the day after Christmas in 1792. As a child, he liked to take toys apart to see how they were made. He loved to work with math problems. He eventually became a professor at Cambridge University in England.
Babbage could be mean, and he sometimes yelled at people who disagreed with him. But he had a brilliant mind.
In addition to designing the forerunner of today’s digital computer, Babbage invented a railroad signal system, a device for examining eyes, a submarine and a system of flashing lights for lighthouses.
During the 70 years following Babbage’s death in 1871 computer scientists improved on Babbage’s original idea.
Exercise 1. Choose the sentence according to the text.
a) Babbage built the first modern digital computer.b) Babbage designed the first digital computer.с) Babbage did not build any useful devices.
Exercise 2. Complete the sentence according to the text.
1. Babbage called the device designed by him…
a) analytical engine
b) modern computer
c) information machine
2. This Englishman lived in the…
a) 17th century
b) 18th century
c) 19th century
Exercise 3. Choose the sentence which doesn't correspond to the text.
a) Babbage invented a railroad signal system.
b) Babbage built a submarine.
c) He didn't love to work with math problems.
d) Babbage designed a forerunner of today's digital computers.
Exercise 4. Choose the proper answer to the question according to the text.
Did Babbage eventually become a professor at Harvard University ?
a) No, he became a professor at Cambridge University.
b) Practically, he didn't become a professor at all.
c) Well, he eventually become a professor at Stanford.